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“It’s an invitation to go to a university and talk to some bots, what’s to make of it?” I said. Then the obvious reason behind Bharadwaj asking occurred to me. Oh, great. “Don’t tell me you’re actually thinking about going?”
“I’m considering it,” Bharadwaj said. “I set my own schedule these days, and I would very much like to speak with the bots they’ve been working with, if nothing else.”
I sighed. I like sighing at appropriate moments, and I think I’m pretty good at it at this point. “There are bots on Preservation.”
“True, but the Pansystem University of Mihira and New Tideland has one of the most advanced programs in this section of the galaxy for the construction and study of higher-level bots!” Bharadwaj said, making one of those hand gestures she liked for emphasis.
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AU after Fugitive Telemetry. Bharadwaj, Mensah, and Gurathin take a trip to do some research and rapidly uncover more than they'd bargained for. Why did Murderbot tag along on this low-risk research trip? Listen, don't worry about it.
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I must admit it was a relief when the sea opened up beneath us and swallowed our little vaha whole: drowning in the depths of the Sea of Stars could not possibly be more excruciating than the conversation I was—or rather wasn’t—having with Kip Mdang.
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Inspired by WerewolvesAreReal's Delayed Drowning. An estranged Fitzroy and Cliopher meet for the first time in months during a dark moment for Kip.
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no sleep, no sleep by ariex09
Fandoms: Nine Worlds Series - Victoria Goddard, Lays of the Hearth-Fire - Victoria Goddard
28 Oct 2025
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It took me a few minutes after waking to realize that something was wrong.
At first I could not place what had woken me at all, head hazy enough with sleep that I could not place where or when I was. My mind bounced off the stillness and quiet of the air, ricocheted against the too-soft cushion beneath me, and pinged against the distant, muffled sounds of voices and eventually, helpfully, told me inn. Only after that did I place Kip’s breathing, and even then I thought, stupidly, foolishly, that he had only moved around a bit and woken me.
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A nightmare, an invitation, and the untangling of a knot.
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- Part 8 of fake a smile
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hold me fast by ariex09
Fandoms: Nine Worlds Series - Victoria Goddard, Lays of the Hearth-Fire - Victoria Goddard
20 Oct 2025
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The message from the Queen was simplicity itself. It said, A man from your world has wandered into ours. He ate our food of his own free will; thus we may not return him unfed, as our oaths require. He will have a better life here, think you not?
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Or, Fitzroy gets kidnapped by the fae. Cliopher goes to get him back.
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on silent paws by ariex09
Fandoms: Nine Worlds Series - Victoria Goddard, Lays of the Hearth-Fire - Victoria Goddard
31 Aug 2025
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"Kip?" I said, holding still. Startling the creature with sharp appendages in aggressively close contact with my skin seemed unwise.
"Hmm?" Kip cracked an eye open. To my eyes he was at least halfway asleep already; Domina Audry's medication worked quickly.
"Your cat is puncturing me with its claws." It came out faintly plaintive despite my best efforts.
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Or: two days five hours, but with a cat.
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fake a smile by ariex09, crownedrooster, fire_eyes_chica, rattyjol
Fandom Lays of the Hearth-Fire - Victoria Goddard, Nine Worlds Series - Victoria Goddard, The Lays of the Hearth Fire Series - Victoria Goddard, The Lays of the Hearth-Fire Series - Victoria Goddard, The Red Company Reformed Series - Victoria Goddard
28 Oct 2025
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the long way home by ariex09
Fandom Lays of the Hearth-Fire - Victoria Goddard, Nine Worlds Series - Victoria Goddard
09 Jun 2025
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diving for a flame pearl by ariex09
Fandom Lays of the Hearth-Fire - Victoria Goddard, Nine Worlds Series - Victoria Goddard
14 Sep 2024
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Co-Curricular & Enrichment Activities by kathryne for Lightbulbs
Fandoms: The Incandescent - Emily Tesh
24 Nov 2025
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Nikki figures it out first—or, no, that’s not entirely fair. Mathias figures it out first. Nikki is just, as she so often is, the first one to speak up. “There's something wrong with Dr Walden.”
Following February half term, Sixth Form Invocation realise they have a problem.
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03 Jun 2026
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The Meeting of Blood and Darkness by Ostentenacity
Fandoms: Hades (Supergiant Games Video Games)
17 Nov 2024
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You lunge for the door to the balcony, where you keep your Infernal Arms, but you’re not fast enough. You hear the stranger’s laughter echo behind you, and then—
—and then there’s a girl.
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Or: Zagreus gets an invitation to the Crossroads.
Bookmarked by ariex09
05 Apr 2026
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Melinoë’s long-awaited family reunion does not go as planned, and she returns to the Crossroads with only one person. Nobody warned her that her brother’s re-entries to the Underworld have always been a bit… macabre.
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05 Apr 2026
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The sun at sea by alfgifu
Fandoms: Nine Worlds Series - Victoria Goddard, Lays of the Hearth-Fire - Victoria Goddard
16 Feb 2026
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They called Kip Mdang many things: pirate, freebooter, folk hero, villain. Imperial lapdog, now and then, although I'd never heard that twice. Nor did anyone who’d met him tend to repeat the epithet 'Seafarer King', though it was popular in Solaara.
What if Kip went back to the pirates instead of the Palace, after his long voyage home?
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- Part 2 of Elected Representative of the Free Fleet
Bookmarked by ariex09
17 Feb 2026
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gilded grace by lux_arcana for SunInGlory
Fandoms: Lays of the Hearth-Fire - Victoria Goddard, Nine Worlds Series - Victoria Goddard
12 Feb 2026
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Cliopher isn't jealous, really. Ludvic had gained the marks by saving Fitzroy's life; it would be strange to be jealous of such a terrifying thing, an event he still had nightmares about.
He just - thinks they are beautiful. And attractive, in a way. And he can't stop himself from staring at them. But it's not like he could say anything...
Fitzroy has another idea.
(Retirement-era smudgies for SunInGlory)
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14 Feb 2026