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a new place to be from by smugbug
Fandoms: Dungeons & Dragons (Roleplaying Game), Original Work
05 Feb 2025
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To anyone outside of their party, Lysandra probably just looked like another adventurer– worn clothes, choppy hair, tired dark eyes.
But Thia new better. She knew what daggers sat behind their companion’s gentle frown. She had seen those dark eyes glow red in the night. Hells, she was even in the room when they found Lysandra on top of Aries, her mouth clamped to the wound on his stomach. Feeding.
Thia shuddered. Fucking vampires.
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A recently-divorced Jaina Proudmoore is taking a break from overseeing the renovation of her soon-to-be-opened bookstore. A convenient time to finally introduce herself to the owner of the art studio across the street. She's watched her through the storefront windows more than she cares to admit, because how could she not? There wasn't really anything else to do in this town, after all.
That introduction, as inconsequential as Jaina intended for it to be, sets both their lives on a course that feels too perfect for either of them to believe. But Sylvanas has a secret. Sylvanas has so many secrets. Skeletons in her closet that haunt her even now. Even as far away as she's run.
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03 Nov 2024
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“I wasn’t expecting company.”
Jaina wants to assure her she didn't come to stare at her like she's some sabercat in a cage—teeth dulled on the bars, roar hoarse and failing. Only she realizes now that this is exactly why she's come. A wave of shame threatens to crash over her, but she dismisses it. She came to deliver Veressa’s letter, and to banish the notion that Sylvanas Windrunner truly was a stranger to her.
Staring at Sylvanas, waiting for her to rattle the bars of her would be cage, would do neither of those things for her.
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21 Oct 2024
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The Dark Times are nothing more than ancient history to the humans. Fearsome tales told to all the children of the human kingdoms of Azeroth of satyr and wyvern and trolls and all the wild, fearsome things that once ruled the land. They are almost as fabled and feared as those that tamed the wilds with magic so powerful as to be incomprehensible.
High Elves, the humans called them. Ruled by an all-powerful queen. Hidden away behind invisible barriers in a land of perpetual warmth and beauty. For the elves had tamed all things. Even nature, itself.
The betrothal of Jaina Proudmoore, the first human with magic in her veins, to a Lord of the elven royalty was a convenient way for the humans to rid themselves of the perceived threat of a dangerous young woman with a gift none of them understood. It had also solidified a long-standing, tenuous truce between them. And Jaina? Well. Jaina never felt like she belonged, anyway. She has always wanted more.
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21 Aug 2024
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You wouldn't know it by looking at it. If you drove by, you'd just assume it was another small farm, fallen on hard times and abandoned to nature. But Jaina Proudmoore knows better. She knows very little about the ghost that haunts this place, save that it is powerful, and that very power is the most delicious thing she'll ever taste.
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Imagine, Sylvanas thinks, how merciful my death would've been had a Lich Queen been chosen over a King. Jaina Proudmoore has no need of a Banshee. I would have been slain cleanly, as would all of Azeroth. Efficiently.
"A marriage of state," says Jaina. "A mutual surrender for a mutual victory."
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18 May 2024