indecently undignified

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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