Chapters tagged slow burn

You cock-blocked us both tonight! by pwizdelf

Chapter 39

I tiptoed upstairs, knowing Nan would be long asleep by now. Curry’s door was shut same as it had been when we left that morning, and I didn’t know if that meant he hadn’t come home yet, or had been home for a while already and was asleep or reading or something. I was quiet, but...

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Yergen's famous pillowy cinnamon fritters by pwizdelf

Chapter 41

“Wait—wait—wait! What do you mean, Bag thinks Barty’s suspect for Khan is the same as ours for Ethelbanian?” I asked, sitting up all the way from where I lay sprawled on the garden settee next to him, and eyeballing Curry. “Same suspect as in coincidentally knew both women, or sa...

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We hear she loved Krap by pwizdelf

Chapter 42

“This looks far more insane than I imagined from the description I was just given,” Baggett said when I came downstairs some fifteen minutes later, having struggled a bit with the unwieldiness of the large corkboard on which Curry had recreated Lamb’s city map. But his eyes had a...

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TIME JUMP: Age 27 — and my first content warning by pwizdelf

Chapter 43

This is another landing page to help organize additional stories about these characters taking place around this point in time. This is also me mentioning to anybody who is not in a place suitable to consuming content that goes to fairly emotionally bleak slash dark places—I'm g...

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That works on a few levels by pwizdelf

Chapter 44

===8 Spring 1386========== “I don’t follow, he thinks the green string means what, again?” I asked Curry, puzzled, then drew in a sharp gasp when I accidentally drove the needle I was using to resew a button on my cloak straight into my thumb. A bright spot of blood beaded up im...

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Quackery, Its evils traced to ignorance and Credulity by pwizdelf

Chapter 45

===9 Spring 1386========== When I woke for a second time that night to the sound of Curry coughing in the next room, I slipped out of bed and padded barefoot into his room in my pajamas. He sounded much worse than I’d expected for it only being a few hours, and his lungs had tak...

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Throw some laudanum at the problem by pwizdelf

Chapter 46

By the time the stove was hot enough to boil a kettle, I had everything assembled and measured out properly. Hoping that the anise wasn’t a critical component, and that the laudanum’s properties might do most of the heavy lifting, I hung the lamp on the hook by the stove and set...

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Needs must by pwizdelf

Chapter 47

It was cool out when I opened the side door that led to the walk, so I ducked back inside and got my cloak from where Curry had left it on the settee, then shut the door behind me and set out walking, buttoning it around my shoulders as I went. The guard kiosk was only a ten minu...

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Welcome back by pwizdelf

Chapter 48

Much as I didn’t want a protracted eyeful of his private parts, I quickly figured out that if the point was not to make a mess, I did have to watch the whole time, to make sure the jar didn’t tip and wasn’t getting too full for its current angle—_yeah_. Well. When he seemed done...

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Without further danger by pwizdelf

Chapter 49

When I came back from looking for something to read I checked on him, and he was still awake, a little, so instead of taking the armchair I climbed onto the bed with the book I’d picked out. I leaned against the headboard with the fat tome on my lap, holding the book with one han...

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