secret

rating: pg/13

word count: ~2900

fandom: fallen london/sunless sea (original characters)

originally posted 1/22/16

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there’s something almost ironic about having a name like “aurora” in the neath. acantha supposes she could change it back– it’d used to be “arora” some generations ago, but they’d anglicized it when the family moved to britain– but it’s too delightfully inappropriate, down here where there are no stars.

acantha thinks she’s done fairly well for herself, honestly. she has many acquaintances if few friends. there was that nasty business with aunt ritika, right after she’d moved down, but the letters asking after her have mostly stopped, even. (this might have more to do with acantha changing addresses without taking the trouble to inform surface relatives than with anyone actually ceasing inquiries into aunt ritika’s mysterious disappearance.) it’s not like she’s wildly successful, she’s not fooling herself. she lives above a shop in veilgarden; not precisely glamorous. she writes trash on commission for a living.

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aboard the oblivion, pt 1

rating: t

word count: 1600

fandom: star wars (post rotj, rebels-inspired, all oc-centric)

summary: life for the crew of the imperial raider-class warship oblivion is about to get very interesting.

originally posted 3/20/16

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the inquisitor marches back onto the ship from the base at ord mantell, not quite acknowledging vyrr’s salute. they stand at the top of the still-open boarding ramp, circling around in slow, tight motions, as though surrounded in combat, perhaps, and then finally reach up and drag their helmet slowly off.

vyrr almost chokes on her surprise. in the two months since the raider corvette oblivion had been assigned to serve the inquisitor, vyrr has never seen them sans any part of their gleaming, chitinous black armor with its emblazoned white imperial cogs. she’d sort of thought that perhaps inquisitors were sort of like the gen dai, that the armor was somehow necessary as part of their form or something. it’s not like vyrr has ever met any other inquisitors– if, indeed, there are any others. that information has always been a bit fuzzy, probably purposefully.

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