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  1. Public Bookmark 66

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    She no longer tallies days like coins. In this humble rhythm of hearth and harvest, beginnings blur—each kiss, each word unspooled from the loom of chronology. A hand grazing a knee, fingertips skimming the edge of a scar, dawn’s light fraying through unbound hair—each moment reigns sovereign, unshackled from hour or season. Yet when she combs Alicent’s locks each morning, her fingers snag on silver threads gilding the auburn like moonlight on a widow’s braid, and Time—that sly, relentless thief—finds her anyway.

    Or;

    Alicent and Rhaenyra grow old together in the cottage they built, a place where they find healing and live out their shared adventures.

    The companion piece of that one cottage au fic

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    24 Oct 2024

  2. Public Bookmark *

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    She traces the contours of her memories, seeking the source of this ache, but all that remains are fragmented images, blurred edges of a past that refuses to be forgotten. And at the heart of it all, a name: Alicent.

    or;

    Alicent flees King’s Landing and lives in a cottage with her chickens. Rhaenyra goes to the ends of the earth searching for her.

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    22 Oct 2024

  3. Public Bookmark 19

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    Shin is fine and she's alive. She has hobbies and she is getting a degree. There's food in the fridge and a positive balance in her bank account. The boxes under "acceptable life" are all checked. And yet, when Sabine Wren breezes into the picture, the idea of just getting by becomes something bitter, threatening to upend the fragile balance Shin's built.

    The challenge is deciding whether to burn it all down and let something new sprout from the ashes or to, as the prophets say, stick to the status quo.

    [abandoned]

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    22 Sep 2024

  4. Public Bookmark 94

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    War is not the time to start looking for desire never mind love. Yet here she is. The flames of desire and want burn through her veins demanding she claim Mysaria for herself. That she gives in to her own whims and lets the fire between them burn. Fire that already outshines any other feelings of love and desire she has felt for others. A growing need that she ignores. Until she can ignore it no more.

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    21 Sep 2024

  5. Public Bookmark 14

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    Her hands were still shaking as she knocked, once, on Mysaria’s door. She did not wait for a reply, but stepped right inside on unsteady legs, her grip on the knob of the door white-knuckled.

    Mysaria was in bed, her long, dark hair unbound, her eyes gleaming in the faint light of the fire left burning in the hearth, to chase away the cold of Dragonstone’s stony halls. For a moment, it seemed to Rhaenyra that what she saw was a tableau, something staged, as if Mysaria had laid down and arranged to seem newly awakened only a heartbeat before Rhaenyra had burst into her room.

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    27 Aug 2024