from_the_west: (the house that matteu built)
2009-09-17 07:16 pm

the indirect use of force: rin and tiun.

i had a request for rin and tiun's early adventures and several for indirect force [sidhe!team leverage], so hey, multiple birds in one fic. first part.

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The message arrived via a brightly dancing butterfly, which, once it caught their attention, unfurled its wings wider and then wider still, into an explosion of red-orange feathers, tipped with black and blue as if dipped into ink wells, attached to a black-haired, black-eyed, shyly giggling cherub. This spoke to a different sort of urgency; Huan didn't often trust messages with the butterfly-minded among the fravashi.

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from_the_west: (the house that matteu built)
2009-04-02 09:56 am

random exercises featuring the indirect use of force: the lady liar.

quite early, before there is a "team" per se.

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Matteu thought the wine was much too dry.

His opinion appeared to be the minority, however, because from what he could tell, lifted from everything from actual words, to the slightest shift of expression of those around him, to the sheer volume of wine being imbibed implied that this was some of the Imperion's finest, and if that were the case, it must be true. )