Chapters tagged female pov

Blackchapel by pwizdelf

Chapter 56

===28 Spring 1386========== Nan had been back from her visit to Valder Keep eight days now, and she had spoken to me maybe three times in that interval, one of which was on her immediate arrival home, before she found out that Magnus had died ten days before, and that I was the...

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Slashed in twain by pwizdelf

Chapter 57

===?? Spring 1386========== The startling thing was this: I was asleep. It was so startling, in fact, that I was out of the chair like a crossbow bolt, and on my feet almost before I remembered what things like _awake_ and _asleep_ even meant. I whirled to take in the room, sti...

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"My Wife" by pwizdelf

Chapter 58

Yeah. That old chestnut ===?? Spring 1386========== The Rook the hospital sent was a baby-faced blond human man who introduced himself and explained that he was in his final year of practical physician training at the College, but had completed his healing studies, had some fir...

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Not for big people by pwizdelf

Chapter 59

Mid-afternoon was an _outrageously_ annoying time to have to storm out of one's house in a fury, I ruminated angrily as I kept my head down, trying to conceal the fact from passersby that I was outright gasping with the gale of my babyishly hurt, frantic sobs. This was a _p...

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Keep shutting up by pwizdelf

Chapter 60

It took me long enough to steel myself to go on that Baggett looked down again to see if I had changed my mind. “Sorry. I’m just bearing up,” I said. “I don’t think it would be good for my career, if other people at the Watch knew.” There was a flicker of apprehensive interest i...

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But wait, there's more! by pwizdelf

Chapter 61

Once we had our “trash food,” as Baggett termed it, and settled ourselves on the nearest bench least plastered in gull shit, he cast his sharp eyes over me and said, “Don’t think I haven’t noticed you never mentioning exactly what your _thing_ is, that made the College of Rava so...

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The flesh of their brethren by pwizdelf

Chapter 62

I wanted rather more to hear whatever was behind Baggett having paid out of pocket to ward his guard badge, but I also knew him well enough to know that the finality in his tone meant if I pressed it now he’d clam up and divert me. “So last night, I was really worried,” I said, i...

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Tangles by pwizdelf

Chapter 63

Back at the house, Yergen was gone but had left Baggett a note saying Curry seemed to be equally out of physical danger and out of sorts, with the tongue lashing I’d given him before fleeing, and wanted to be let alone. Thus Yergen had decided to go. Baggett went home, graciously...

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TIME JUMP: Age 36 by pwizdelf

Chapter 64

This is a landing page to help organize additional stories about these characters taking place around this point in time. If you're thinking, what a long-ass time jump. You're not wrong.

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I didn't know detectives were funny by pwizdelf

Chapter 65

===39 Winter 1395========== “Hey Bersk?” Erskine asked, and then there was a short silence before I looked up from my paperwork a moment later to see why she wasn’t talking. “Sorry Ersk,” I said, giving her a little smile to apologize for not getting to her right away. “I forgo...

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