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Post by Lisa on Jul 15, 2011 21:20:59 GMT 10
Title: Voicing Objections Rating: PG-13 Couple: Kara/Halef Event: Donkey Discus Word Count: 200 Summary: Perhaps it’s time to reconsider….
Theirs was a love-story that baffled the other tribe-members. After all, how could their beloved headman fall in love with a girl twenty years his junior? And someone so thin and awkward? And a woman who set their traditions on end, a female shaman?
But they did not question him openly. They watched him court her, bringing her love-tokens and arguing in defense of her honor. They pretended not to see how he waited at the well each morning, eager to help her draw water.
It was not until they announced their impending marriage that anyone spoke up, and it was the voice they expected least.
When summer came to the Great Southern Desert, perceptible only by the changing of constellations, the Northern King, Voice of Tribes, came as well.
“You have to reconsider,” he warned Halef Seif. “Don’t you remember your love affair with a woman from the Sunset Dragon tribe, so many years ago?”
“You know I could not forget,” Halef said darkly.
King Jonathan shook his head, his expression grave. “I know Bazhir bloodlines more implicitly than I know the well-documented nobility in the north,” he began, “and I know too well that Kara is your daughter.”
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Post by Kypriotha on Jul 15, 2011 22:14:21 GMT 10
Gasp! That is not a twist I saw coming...now I am confused... Are you planning on writing a resolution to this?
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Post by pandora on Jul 15, 2011 22:57:53 GMT 10
Lisa, this is fantastic! I love that it's the Voice who intervenes and the twist itself had me gobsmacked!
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Post by Lisa on Jul 16, 2011 4:47:38 GMT 10
Nyah... Since I'm not making this one cohesive arc so much as drabbles about the characters, I'm leaving this as is. It's more food-for-thought-fic than exploring my head canon. I'm really glad you both liked it!
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Post by Kypriotha on Jul 16, 2011 12:05:13 GMT 10
So I can tell myself in my head that it's OK, she's not really his daugther and not collapse in an emotional heap crying, "no, it can't be! They're too perfect for each other for it to end like this!"?
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Post by Lisa on Jul 16, 2011 13:53:43 GMT 10
LOL! Definitely not. They're still on the OTP list, this is just a side-job.
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Post by Rosie on Jul 19, 2011 0:44:30 GMT 10
Oh, this killed me. I was thinking all the drabbles were along the same line, and the last line totally floored me. Excellent work ;D
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Post by Lisa on Jul 19, 2011 21:32:13 GMT 10
Thank you! I figured by the end of the Decathlon, anything I write should have a degree of incest in it.
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Post by Griff on Jul 19, 2011 23:35:21 GMT 10
I figured by the end of the Decathlon, anything I write should have a degree of incest in it. Lisa, we can always count on you to have inventive goals. Also - Jon, shut up and go puncture someone else's incestuous happily ever after. There has to be someone. I mean, it's freaking Tortall. Is Dom kissing Neal? Have Kel and Conal resolved their childhood issues? WHAT HAVE THAYET AND YOUR CROWN PRINCE BEEN UP TO LATELY? I think you should go be paranoid about THAT now, and leave these two alone. *stubborn face*
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Post by Lisa on Jul 20, 2011 5:16:33 GMT 10
;D Ah, I love you Griff. ♥
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Post by Griff on Jul 20, 2011 11:18:48 GMT 10
Jon's just pissy because he didn't sleep with Roger when he had the chance and now he's dead.
*glares*
Spoilsport.
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Post by journeycat on Jul 21, 2011 8:10:06 GMT 10
Okay, you appealed to one of the things I love the most in a fic: unexpected incest! I'm pretty sure that makes me a tish weird, but it also makes me adore this beyond all reason. ;D
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Post by Lisa on Jul 21, 2011 21:43:19 GMT 10
If that makes you weird, it makes me an absolute freak-show. ;D Glad you enjoyed it!
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Post by PeroxidePirate on Jul 28, 2011 22:41:42 GMT 10
*cackles* I CAN'T BELIEVE I DIDN'T SEE THAT COMING! From you, I should have. I love your twisted mind.
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Post by Lisa on Jul 29, 2011 0:57:33 GMT 10
Hahahahahahahaha! ♥ My brain is a wonderful place sometimes - you should visit more often.
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Post by wordy on Jan 31, 2012 18:33:23 GMT 10
Oh snap. Brilliant twist! And I was so loving the courtship, it was so sweet with him waiting to help her get water from the well.
*shakes fist*
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