Chapters tagged slow burn

Gods, not this shit again by pwizdelf

Chapter 50

A few hours later I woke again to Curry shivering so violently it vibrated the bed. He was too cold to answer me when I inquired what was the worst of it, so I repeated everything I’d done the night before—building up the fire, hot-water flasks, heaping on the blankets, cough rem...

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The show must go on by pwizdelf

Chapter 51

When my surprise kept me from answering right away, he said, “How are we ever meant to get over you if you keep coming back and getting our hopes up, only to dash them every time?” in a tone of such openly plaintive despair that I felt immediately guilty, which was ridiculous, wh...

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Please stay by pwizdelf

Chapter 52

I woke with a start to the now unpleasantly familiar sound of Curry coughing, more feebly than before, and understood I had slept much longer than twenty minutes. I rubbed my eyes and stood up, squinting at the clock in the dim firelight. One in the morning. “Are you yourself aga...

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Get back to bed, dum dum by pwizdelf

Chapter 53

===10 Spring 1386========== Out of nowhere I shuddered awake, completely awake, unsure what had roused me. Not a dream—I was pretty sure I hadn’t been dreaming. It took me a moment, while my eyes adjusted to the darkness, to realize that in my sleep I’d turned over and curled up...

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Along cantered chaunceyhorse by pwizdelf

Chapter 54

A long, terrible moment passed, during which nothing at all happened other than my eyes began to water from the sharp, biting stink of fumes, and then Curry’s eyelids fluttered and he made a faint, groggy sound of displeasure. I almost began to bawl again, just from sheer relief,...

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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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