Tag:Erich von Rerugen
swept up amid this changing world Part 17
They break camp shortly after true dawn. It’s later than Erich wanted, but they’re not that far behind schedule. (Not that they really have a schedule anymore.) (Or anyone expecting them at the other end of their march…) (No.) (Focus.) It feels odd to be abandoning camp the way they are, with all the tents …
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beneath the cherry trees Part 5
There are villagers gathered around the base of the stairs, Erich discovers as soon as he rounds the last bend. He immediately freezes, searching for an escape, for a way around the gathering that wouldn’t draw attention, but— “Oh! Ammy, are these two yours?” one of the villagers asks as she looks up and spots …
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beneath the cherry trees Part 4
He’s a wolf. Erich stares down at his paws and then up at the blue, moonless sky overhead, and tries to process exactly what just happened. This should be impossible. His change — their change — is tied to the moon itself, and without the moon visible in the sky, he shouldn’t be a wolf. …
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Bare Your Fangs to the Dusk Part 21
Alexis slowly unbraided her hair as she watched Kisuke fidget restlessly, his gaze never staying on anything for very long; she didn’t quite understand what had made him uncomfortable this time — though Erich undressing in front of them seemed to be a part of it — but she needed to find a way to …
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Erich/Alexis: Marriage of Convenience + Hot Consort
Erich/Alexis, 2 and 30, Lust Royale cover? >:) ser (Art by ser as usual, lol! Some of these are going to end up with ridiculous ‘cover art’ like this) (2: Marriage of Convenience, 30: Hot Consort, Erich/Alexis (and extras because polyam)) “…the promise of lasting alliance between our people…” Erich resists the urge to sigh …
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swept up amid this changing world Part 16
“Congratulations, sir,” Degurechaff announces as she slips into the tent, clearly distracted by something. “The men seem to have collectively decided that your foreign soulmate is a good man and that the entire reason I stepped in as chaperon is because I understand more of his language than you do. No one seems to have …
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swept up amid this changing world Part 15
Erich wakes to the feel of Degurechaff’s familiar-unfamiliar spiritual presence pressing down on him. He grunts and forces himself up on his elbow, squinting at her silhouette in the gloom of the tent, and mutters, “You’re projecting, Colonel.” “Sorry, sir,” she answers, voice clear-soft-judging as she shifts a step closer. She does, however, rein in …
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beneath the cherry trees Part 3
Erich wakes with a groan, body aching and mind sluggish. His mouth tastes like cotton and there’s a headache pounding across his temples in time with his heartbeat; he feels scraped raw and wrung out, like whatever he tangled with the night before won and then kept at it, and… frankly, from what little he …
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swept up amid this changing world Part 14
The men are in a better state than he expected, Erich finds as he leads Urahara and Alexis through the camp, checking in with NCOs as he goes. They are exhausted and tired and disillusioned but they’re also smiling at him as he and Urahara and Alexis pass, hopeful-happy-kind, like the fact that he has …
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beneath the cherry trees Part 2
The village is quiet, peaceful, like something out of an idyllic story. There’s a waterfall nearby, filling the air with the steady noise of rushing water, and an owl is calling from one of the trees, but otherwise there’s nothing stirring. Erich wanders down the stone paths with Alexis at his side, ears perked as …
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Bare Your Fangs to the Dusk Part 20
“Well, that meeting went better than expected,” Kisuke said as soon as the… servants? Probably servants… filed out of the room and closed the door behind them; while he appreciated the thought behind bringing in a larger bed and a large tub for them to wash up in, he wished it wasn’t so obvious that …
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Fox and Griffin Part 11
Erich leaned back away from the table and sipped at his tea as Tsukabishi cleared the table and Fox rummaged through a cabinet looking for… something or other. The man hadn’t said and Erich hadn’t felt like asking. (Not when he was still reeling from… from not hurting.) (He’d… he’d never thought it was fixable, …
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beneath the cherry trees Part 1
The moon rises late in the afternoon, pulling Erich away from his paperwork with a rush of silver-bright power. It settles in his bones and rushes through his blood, and between one breath and the next his body changes, flowing into quicksilver mist that swirls downward, condenses— He takes a breath. Tastes the familiar scents …
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swept up amid this changing world Part 13
Having someone — two someones — constantly at his side is… disorienting. Even his aide hadn’t been quite so glued to his side, the two of them knowing the other’s routine and content to work with — and around — the other to get their jobs done. (He… misses Beltz, for all that Degurechaff has …
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swept up amid this changing world Part 12
He wakes to agony, to too-loud noises and pulsing pain and the disorienting ripple of power-as-light across his closed eyes and— He exhales. Tries not to whine— (If he whines he makes noise and noise hurts so it will hurt and he just wants it all to stop—the noise and the pain and the light …
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