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The writing is on the wall by Obssesivecompulsive
Fandoms: The Empyrean - Rebecca Yarros
19 Dec 2025
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This is for the winter exchange on discord!
This is a rival-pen pals story set in an AU.
She’s a scribe, Xaden is infantry.
Fen is still a duke, also alive.She ‘met’ a boy that showed her kindness when she was just ten years old. Her mother had dragged her to Tyrrendor, where the relationships were..tense.
But their instant connection had them both ignoring life around them because what they both needed was each other.Fast forward 11 years, countless letters, and grown feelings.
How are the adults in the situation faring now?Let’s see shall we?
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19 Dec 2025
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To Hate And To Hold by widebrimmedhat for hurricane
Fandoms: The Empyrean - Rebecca Yarros
10 Sep 2024
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Violet still can barely see the inside of the cave, with the water on her goggles, so she hears his voice before she sees him.
“I didn’t know we were having company.”
She flings her goggles from her face with such haste, they fly from her hand, then smash into the cave wall, glass shattering.
“Well,” he notes, “someone’s a bit violent, aren’t they?”
“Who the fuck are you?” she demands. She’s still on Tairn’s back, but the man is sitting on the floor. Beside his gryphon.Or, in a world where the Tyrrish Rebellion was successful, Xaden Riorson became a gryphon flier, but Violet is still sent to Athebyne. Only this time, she's alone.
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12 Dec 2025
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When Violet Sorrengail is eighteen years old, her olympic dreams turn to dust and she swears to never attend another swim meet again. Six years later, she’s reinvented herself. As the best media manager Scribed has to offer, she’s well-traveled, well-paid and entirely content with life.
Enter Xaden Riorson—olympian, gold medallist, world record holder…devil incarnate. No one’s ever gotten under Violet’s skin quite like him. From the moment they met she’s hated him, so when Violet’s co-worker is forced to vacate her position with Team USA and she finds herself in Paris, she swears to stay as far away from him as possible.
Unfortunately for her, he never got the memo.
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10 Dec 2025
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It took only a few minutes for Violet to figure out what purpose she served.
No one said it out loud—not yet, but they’d get there—but they kept throwing out words like formalizing alliances and uniting two groups, and she understood.
Violet was a sacrificial lamb, and Xaden Riorson was the wolf, and her slaughter would be their marriage.
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- Part 1 of storm in the quiet
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06 Dec 2025
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Violet Sorrengail just wants to survive her first summer back at Aretia in nearly two years.
Older now, with new fears and new grief, she worries how she'll find her way back. But when she returns, the mountain is the same, with its cool, fresh air. The cabins still have graffiti-covered rafters and creaky floors. And there is Xaden Riorson, still shooting her glares and wicked grins from across the dining hall.
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Xaden's frozen, his gaze midnight, flickering over my loose, mused hair. His eyes snag on the beginnings of a braid. I huff, shooting him a look and dropping the strands I’ve been trying to weave again. “Today it's just not cooperating.”
His smile is sly as he meets my gaze in the mirror. “Let me.” I flash a disbelieving look as he steps forward, hands wide in an appeasing gesture. “I lived with Sloane for nearly a decade. I can French braid, or Dutch if you’d prefer.” He quirks his brow at me in our reflections, and truly, how is this man allowed to exist?
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- Part 1 of Camp Aretia
Bookmarked by twistingorange
02 Dec 2025