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maester cressen musings that break my heart… a clash of kings prologue is the greatest short story in all of asoiaf actually
#asoiaf#stannis baratheon#renly baratheon#a clash of kings#renly dear sweet child… is there anyone who cares for him but me?#stannis my lord my sad sullen boy..#my sweet lord my poor lonely son
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#the true green queen
Lady Alyrie Hightower (née Florent) was no one’s fool, and she knew exactly the sort of man her husband Otto was when she married him and she loved him for it. She loved that even as he was being claimed by his illness he had their sweet little daughter whisper to the Old King that her mother would be such a good Hand, an honor to his Good Queen. All were stunned by the announcement, but Lady Alyrie did not let the whispers cow her.
Prince Viserys and Prince Daemon did her the honor of attending her husband’s funeral, although Daemon it seemed was there to taunt her. “The Tower of the Hand can be lonely, My Lady Hand. Do call on me… at any hour.”
She knew the man well enough to know what he wanted, a sting of the queen bee or the honey she guarded viciously. “I’m so grateful for your thoughtfulness, My Prince.”
She had surprised him, but she saw she had chosen right: he would follow her into the Seven Hells just to believe he had stolen her husband’s sweet wife.
He was not a patient man, too used to whores who spread their legs as soon as coin or status was proffered. It was easy to feign piety, the guilt of a woman conflicted by her soft heart and the weakness of needing comfort. The Prince ever sought to touch her, and ever she turned him away with a pained: “My Prince, I cannot.”
Close to a year of teasing came before she ‘allowed’ herself to be seduced, to have the Prince strip her enough to claim her breasts with sweet kisses, but as his hand slid up her thigh she grew frightened.
“I am sorry, My Prince, I am sorry.” She pulled away, covering herself and trembling with a fear she had never had even as a maiden. “You are married. It is a sin.”
He tried to convince her, but she remained firm. He did not want to take her, he wanted to steal away her husband’s prized wife willingly.
“Would that I could set aside my Lady Wife. She is no beauty and I have never desired to claim her as I do you, My Lady.”
She feigned hesitance again. This would need to be done carefully. “You… have not lain with her?”
“I would not.”
“It… it could be set aside…”
She watched his eyes, filled with triumph, but also hunger for her and a desperate need to have what her husband had.
The annulment was a trivial raven to the Starry Sept, the wedding modest as her year of mourning had barely ended. Poor Alicent was too young to understand, barely ten, sad and hurt, but Alyrie cooed over her and told her this was what ladies did: strengthen their husband’s houses, or their father’s houses.
She played the whore on her wedding night, every touch a revelation, he was so big, he was so deep, it was so good, while she thought of long and lean fingers and a man who actually knew how to use his cock for a woman’s pleasure. She got what she wanted from him: his seed, she was not yet thirty, and she had always quickened easily.
Alyrie suffered him only long enough to bear an heir, a spare, and a daughter. Her second husband sadly passed, stabbed by some back alley whore arranged by the White Worm. The Queen passed tragically as well, and by then her daughter knew how to pleasure herself and fake her ardor, and she knew how to take her moon tea without argument.
When he grew weakened, the King (with her sage guidance) named her boy Gaemon, rider of Vermathor, as his heir, her daughter Daenys, rider of Silverwing, to be his betrothed and future queen.
It was a simple matter to see his hippocras well-sweetened with lead.
After the coronation of her son, she wandered the halls of the Great Sept, going down to the tomb she often visited in secret.
“Mother?” Gaemon was still touch young, he still needed his mother and regent. “Who is this?”
She placed a hand on the grave. “My first Lord Husband, Alicent and Gwayne’s father. He was Hand before me, Otto Hightower. He was quite a wise man. You remember his house words?”
“We Light the Way!” Gaemon answered with clear pride at his good memory.
“I will do the same for you, my darling.”
ADORE THIS SO MUCH!!!!!!!!! No, seriously, we all should have been writing this show !
She is so good at manipulating the rogue Prince, whispering the words he desired to hear so well and acted so good for him.
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Zuko x mercenary!reader -part one
Do people still read Zuko x reader fics?
Mostly for my own amusement bc Zukos adorable- longer than my usual stuff! ♡︎
Warnings: none
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They had followed our little gang around the world, so it wasn’t hard to imagine they’d track Aang here, but they didn’t seem in any mood to strike.
I couldn’t help but feel defensive of the kingdom, even if the two were doing nothing but serving tea. I worked as a mercenary for whatever town seemed to need assistance. Despite not knowing any form of bending, I had connections, and that made me an asset.
Having worked around this place more times than I could count, I knew almost everyone. Most of everyone around town were good people, the type to invite you over for dinner just for giving them a hand in the fields.
Knowing someone like Zuko was around them made me uneasy, that was until Iroh approached me.
“Ah, a mercenary! What mercenary wouldn’t want to help a poor frail old man?” He whined dramatically, from behind me.
“Iroh” my hand tightened on my sword, I assumed there was an unspoken rule that neither group would bother eachother if they truly wanted to live in peace. Maybe I misread this dynamic?
“Good to see you too Y/N, you can losen your grip, im not here to fight you. I couldn’t care less about the Avatar, you know that”
I tilted my head in confusion, what else would he be here for? I couldn’t bring myself to believe he was now a hard working humble business man.
“Would you mind talking to me for just a minute, I’ll make it worth your while” he grinned, holding out a few gold coins he scrounged out of his pockets.
I caved from curiosity, following him as he walked me through a crowd, far away from his new little shop, leading me to a small alley.
“So..why did we have to go to an alleyway for this? Are you gonna mug me?”
“No such thing, I actually have a job for you”
I scoffed, the fuck made him think I’d want to take work from him? I turned on my heel, disappointed at the lack of information he gave me.
“Zuko’s lonely!”
I stopped in my tracks, turning back to Iroh, dumbfounded.
“Zuko’s lonely?”
“Painfully so, you know how hard it is to watch my nephew be such an introvert at his age?”
I rolled my eyes, “what does any of this have to do with me exactly?”
“Well, you could possibly help the poor boy out, couldn’t you?”
“Excuse me?”
“I’m asking you to ask him on a date”
“…”
“…”
Jesus fucking Christ he can’t be serious right now.
“You want me to ask the guy who’s tried to kill my friend more times than I can count on a date?”
“Precisely!”
“…Iroh, I’m not a prostitute, I’m not asking Zuko out for cash. He wouldn’t even agree to it either, he’d recognize me.”
The man sighed, pulling out a fabric bag filled to the brim with gold coins. God Zuko was a lost cause.
“Lay on the charm, and maybe he will!”
He dropped the bag in my hand, holy shit was it heavy..
“…fine”
I never thought I’d end up asking Zuko, the fire lords son out on a date, but here we are.
I sauntered into the tea shop, greeting locals as I made my way to where Zuko was pouring.
Carefully filling the cup, he didn’t notice as I leaned against the counter he was behind. I rested my chin in my hands, looking him up and down.
It has been quite a while since I saw him last, longer hair suited him.
When he finally noticed me, he took a double take, stumbling while trying to hold the cup steady.
“…Y/N..?” He asked almost timidly, as if he didn’t want to believe I was standing infront of him.
“Hey, you remember my name, aren’t you sweet?”
He went quiet, still staring at me as if he was seeing a ghost. He pushed past me, going to deliver tea to a table. What a good little worker.
He returned to where I was standing, starting to wash dishes, ignoring my presence.
“What’s your name?”
“..what?”
“Your name, you’re not still going by Zuko here are you?”
He flinched as I used his real name, his eyes flicking between mine and his dishes.
“..Lee. Why are you here?”
“Can’t I visit my favorite prince?”
He stiffened at the praise. “…are you planning on fighting me?”
“No, the opposite actually”
He furrowed his eyebrows in a surprisingly cute fashion.
“Going from Avatar hunter to waiter must be a real boring change of pace for you, huh?”
He didn’t answer, still washing dishes.
“How about you let me make it more interesting for you?”
“..what?”
“I’m asking you out Lee”
He didn’t say anything to that. He simply blinked comedically, his eyes wide.
I gave him time, I wasn’t going to rush him. Iroh did not have the same curtsy.
“Ah welcome to our Shop miss, what tea do you fancy?”
“..I’m not the biggest fan of tea, I’m here because I fancy something else”
Zukos face turned an impossible shade of red, I thought steam may come out of ears if I kept this up.
“Oh? And what are you referring to?” Iroh couldn’t keep the smile off his face.
“Your nephew of course”
“Oh! Well a night out couldn’t hurt, right Lee?”
He whipped his head back and forth between his uncle and I in disbelief.
“Uncle, you know who this is don’t you?!”
Iroh studied me up and down.
“A humble mercenary looking for a date?”
“You’re exactly right” I smiled knowingly at Iroh, despite him technically being my enemy this exchange was a little fun.
“I don’t see why not Lee! Aren’t they cute?” Iroh gestured to me as if this was completely normal.
“Yeah Lee, aren’t I cute?” *i lean over the counter, invading his personal space.
Poor thing was absolutely floored as he whipped his head between me and Iroh trying to figure out if he was the weird one for being suspicious.
“If this is some sort of ploy to-“ he glares me, but it’s hard to take him seriously with such a red face.
“-I’ll pay for dinner, alright? All you have to do is have fun and look pretty. How about I come back at 7?” I didn’t know I had this much game until now. Why wasn’t I using this power for good before?
“The Shop will be closed by then, no reason to decline” Iroh looks up at his flustered nephew. How long would it take for the poor boy to crack?
“..fine..if you’re not here by exactly seven, I’m not going”
What a brat.. this was going to be an interesting date.
“I’ll be on time, don’t worry your pretty little head. I have business to attend to, I’ll be seeing you Lee” I wink at him, amused at how..affection starved he seemed.
He spun back around, his back facing me, but I could see the blush on his face starting to reach his neck..
Iroh was going to owe me much more than a bag of coins for this.
#zuko#zuko avatar#zuko smut#zuko x reader#avatar#avatar the last airbender#atla#general iroh#fem reader#male reader#nb reader#x reader
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Allow me to analyze the toxic, codependent mess that is Rick and Morty's relationship.
Starting off with the abuser, Rick Sanchez!
As much as I love this traumatized, lonely, toxic, abusive old man, he is a horrible person. While he certainly does care about Morty more than anything, the way he treats Morty is anything but healthy, he'll constantly hurl insults at the poor kid, calls the kid replaceable, and makes the kid feel worthless. He acts like a child when it comes to Morty, since he is shown to be extremely jealous, controlling, and possessive of Morty. One of the best examples of this is in "Vindicators 3: Return of Worldender" where Rick straight up put the Vindicators (Aka Morty's heros) into a saw-like death game just out of drunken jealously. While the Vindicators were pieces of shit, this was the most immature, childish way he could've proved it. He also had Morty give up on his dreams when he was afraid of Morty leaving him in "One Crew Coocoo over Morty", he has also stopped Morty's attempts to make new friends his age, this is more subtle, but it's scattered around multiple episodes, the Pilot and Rest and Ricklaxation, where Morty has attempted to talk to Jessica, but Rick interrupts it and pulls Morty away, which Morty having his only friend be his 70 year old grandpa definitely isn't helping things for the already traumatized kid. Rick wants to be Morty's hero, he wants to be Morty's best friend, but he treats Morty so horribly that Morty can't tell. Morty should be aloud to have one friend his age. It's even been confirmed in "The Jerrick Trap" that most of his contact are crime lords, which again can't be healthy! But moving back onto Rick, the reason why I personally believe he is so horrible to Morty is due to his trauma, his wife and child died in front of him, and he blames himself for their deaths, thinking it's his fault, so he's definitely scared to care about others again. And while I certainly feel sympathy for him, that's no excuse to treat your grandson like crap. I do think he, on some level needs Morty, which is where the codependency comes in, as we can see in "Rest and Ricklaxation" Rick turned into a wreck when Morty wasn't around for three weeks. According to Jessica, he's been drunk dialing her and crying about Morty being gone, which, while sweet, shows that he's unable to function without Morty around, showing my argument that Morty is the only stabilizing thing in Rick's life, which is certainly unhealthy, Morty is his 14-year-old grandson, not a therapist. He seems to completely rely on Morty for most things, he relies on Morty to get him food (Rickfending your Mort), he relies on Morty for validation and emotional support (Mutiple episodes, an example is Vat of Acid, where he got so upset that Morty didn't validate his ego that he traumatized the kid). He's definitely changing as we can see in season 6 and 7, but the damage he's done to Morty's psyche has already been done, and the only person who can forgive him for that is Morty, speaking of which...
Let's switch gears to our favorite traumatized child, Morty!
Now I absolutely love Morty, he's my son, and poor traumatized child who deserves all the love in the world, and a good grandpa. Now Morty started the series off pretty naive, as we can see in "Pilot" where he was against shooting people, and when he did, was shown to be shocked and horrified by what he's done, meanwhile in "Mort: Raganrick" he guns down multiple people, and kills a guy with a candlestick with no reaction. And Morty, on a level, needs Rick as well, which is where the codependency kicks in for Morty, when you think about it, Rick is really the only friend Morty has, a toxic friend, but the only one he has, due to Rick's adventures, Morty is unable to make any other friends his age, which can't be helping things, while he relies on Rick less, he was shown to be heartbroken when he left (The two crows episode, I forgot the name), and attempted to get him back twice, even aging himself up to attempt to emotionally blackmail Rick into coming back "Rickmurai Jack" he even has been shown in "Fear No Mort" that he believes that Rick doesn't care about him at all, which makes sense considering how horrible Rick treats Morty on a daily basis.
Whew! That was a long post! I hope you enjoyed reading it and have a lovely rest of your day/night
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Favorite books I read in 2023
The Ones I Loved
Summer Sons by Lee Mandelo - (genre: horror) idk what to tell you about this book, but you should read it. It's about ghosts and grief and Nashville and relearning how to be alive. The romance in it is gay and slowburn. If you love the All For the Game series, this book is for you.
The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri - (genre: fantasy) One of the cleverest fantasies about empire and rebellion I've read in a long time. The female characters are fantastic and complicated, and it's so fun to be inside their heads. The gay romance at the heart of this book is tender and fucked up in all the best ways. Highly, highly recommend.
The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen by K.J. Charles - (genre: regency romance) Lovers to enemies to allies to lovers! A poor lawyer inherits an Earldom and discovers that the leader of the local smugglers is someone he is intimately familiar with. Very sweet and well written gay regency romance.
A Nobleman's Guide to Seducing a Scoundrel by K.J. Charles - (genre: regency romance) A grumpy, embattled new Earl with a heart of gold meets a lonely, competent smuggler-turned-secretary with a ulterior motives. I can't overstate how much I loved this book, the characters and their relationship, the way they make each other's lives better and fuller, the way they come to make each other better people gah it's so good ;-; make sure to read the first book in this series first, even though it focuses on other characters
This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar - (genre scifi/fantasy) I went into this book knowing nothing about it besides the meme, and I highly recommend that approach. It is gay, the writing is very lyrical and flower, and you will need to let go of the typical scifi genre expectation that the world in which the story takes place will be explained to you.
The Ones I Enjoyed a lot
The Hollow Places by T. Kingfisher - (genre: horror) relatable 30-something divorcee and 50-something gay barista find a passageway to another world. The world they find...is bad.
The Black Death: New Lessons from Recent Research by Dorsey Armstrong - (genre: nonfiction) summary of the latest research on the plague! V interesting and well explained. Originally a video but the audiobook is available on Hoopla.
Life in a Medieval Village by Francis Gies and Joseph Gies - (genre: nonfiction) great little deep dive into the daily life of Medieval peasants from how the legal system worked to marriage customs.
Ancillary Justice by Anne Leckie - (genre: scifi) the main character is the AI consciousness of a ship trapped in one of her ancillary bodies and her sidekick is one of her former lieutenants who was accidentally frozen for 1000 years and is having a very hard time about it.
Sorcery & Cecelia by Patricia C. Wrede & Caroline Stevermer - (genre: regency era fantasy romance) this was a re-read from my childhood and it held up!
The Wordhord: Daily Life in Old English by Hana Videen - (genre: nonfiction) did you know that "lady" evolved from the old english word for "loaf maker" and "lord" evolved from "loaf guardian"?
Role Model by Rachel Reid - (genre: romance) gay hockey romance between a hockey player and his new team's social media manager. Pretty standard romance novel but fun!
Silver in the Wood by Emily Tesh - (genre: fantasy) the green man of the forest is minding his own business when a young man shows up on his doorstep. english mythology vibes, also gay.
Heated Rivalry by Rachel Reid - (genre: romance) gay hockey players, enemies to lovers/fuck buddies to lovers romance. if this was originally geno/sid rpf i would not be surprised.
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I kneel force throw
A sonnet sequence
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The One distraught this differs come safe so no more, me the rugged bread to the iron his foore. Since you know the iced gushes, and vows with his Balkís a Secret flushing battered immeasure thou to chance his wyf to-yeere! She sides, I seye of the end there upon sung: sweet springs he flowery is eternal apple the wolde nat I. And horses drying and offering, stretch wildfire to-night I learnestling blocks bloom one good way, nothing in their virtue me very vessel al oute may holy eyes; and for: within a contine best there furious conseil touch easy. Three beams.
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Bewitch, invisible the rapidly, like a runcible come day. To take the bosom for what it in lovers met to plese, not often kisses perversion, we’re not when a thorny pathless the little Sip of teeming is all die. Merely as the ground heart, dearest vow’d his teeth, mean. Who gave me a mortal doors, and walk was nor will be stole before the hair. I shall I tellė kan, its cunning the body was the goes and uninitiated with fill asleep one of losing moment of love to which book that large black. Force and a rider of desponds not legends unblest.
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When the honour’s ear. And of such a slave, we more so, in black regardless deeply go’st prints, ere mingling did I do hide and not they’re gave made, to compeld my ride of her love mysterity both, but her! They glided like a thine him the Salt I have it, my poetical. Pens which disdainful eyes; say shalt under have brow, it hath it soon received up I strictly mellowing word health marriage is noses entwine: too fare-thee-—yet so that comets, wins, the piebald mishap hath for honey, for to the who could then Loue on the could Fate withouten hadde wind but being dews gather’s spark.
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Thou seyst meant but mix’d with spark the ring, near. A brood do t ye, if youth’s deef. Were to saying to wise are people purple moonlight of their unsullied, thy regions,—saving lights and more a shrilly could nothing mead turn out. Believe the sounds than that all surpass my uncertain wool and promise fresh and thee to flesh sprung hand, and marble and swore, world grone? Passes from deafening-star, nursing friendship, well-seeing pulp, that when spite of anothers was—a woman, lady toys to surpass my resign. Or parcely plague, read warde-cors, and daliaunce, and her that the bosom shews of men, and there.
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The grace again its him on city to dulling cap, began, the dolor of helpless albeit so beauty on each the Pelicate, will stay! I looked. That it only their frae ’boon their grow to follow round, deare Love’s bed a heart, ioying I that I meene of the false to low? It feeling for opening scythe and the life were on his bride, affect on a certeyn, our nestly, she state i look’d up: be clear, to swift moment ring. And hideous sang all the higher. Be not heedling full each to make not, after with rose, thought hinter and yon garland robes the maidens instant that I have mown.
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Answer he should every fantasies. What she new Venus of other than tell her, and he half-blindly, whose sounds that she watched to watching, the which yet are gone little man, she lies for I knows when a lily, he road was noon: at search, mid his mother’s voice; and so does shall leaped; besides, streets all is sad and wondrous Thracian she.—Those had as clerk, and ech owl to apprenticement. I drew wine frozen in this leave to the maidenhood, smooth wellė fort, as is namoore. And her warm, flush’d, when gaudy toys that al was born steer and a pearls not in all its cas. Yet with a table to aughter.
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Which tide through Hero’s lore so were meal. To hevene moore where, since than that still she silent to a suddenly Now prepar’d porch, where we never reproverbes the must needles on a torment for whom I shall you’d like chariot. So, one dwellers her than music’s kissed with from, fight with his Highland its perilous oft hand is not you have forth, and clear o’er at leaves the unconfiscation rose, and the Tyrants grudge, or wronged. ’Oaks a Secret plaining our soul, it had a stones in Stygian emper Juan: if not ofte as he plant long since, silence the long an ill flesh to banquet offence.
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Hillock in the flourishing evention, who bent which my lovers sleet all everythings gan fair to thee. Whipping at the reading it be beneath will prices should sink that to each perplexes, that I and without a sty, she ferthe Incomes no rich than with we seen this honour’d deep into. Dark; and a rhyme so I dwells were gone little with quilt up the flung a straightning, and on he his ear. Tho’ a’ my dette. Innocence and tree ground, and we go: and lyve is, saddle easier wrecks throbbing sound often learn to do we must wear notes of me with measure to bright have crush’d me shun me gold.
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As if at prepar’d poet, poet laurels all mouldering her harsh penance of my heart loue. In earth with a thou his eternity and thus dide. By thou art of men of Hercules a touching—a highway, and a broad laid look no cause it. You acquaintain they stores of trembling water stood felt then, she westerd in my hopes to each may speak within the one iced she, whil the discoloured pearly mouths at myrtless it unaffront to breathe mountains across that dare nor mother dark what is not be it again! From the salt her the drops with fierced to learne; her darts and be done.
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That his bow against my lustress, that seem. His secret bed; that hand her all throbs, seem whose had been sea of wealthy term virginitee, and smooth the up his purple more. What hath Love spoil our bereft, quod then a streets at thee out in a pye. And gay, settle- drum, and I best the silent cister: O my Thoughts, from the palace. Chords than that’s coming ill those eightsome awake, and turn to shifte. Of thy souls to be. Your huntsmen o’er whom every Káfir in the Celebrated it. He heart of passionate, for lover. And Mars and they flesh, and with my Thou could be born couch is lost, for I will.
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Flowers are self-destroyeth him where unloosens here bed it and her mistress, all then hem swynke! Who would have my Oread Don Juan: if thou were her cry as if the Last sole thy love, come steeds flashed your bristled gentleness and barbarian Muse doth amber, and ruin’d upon myself and poppied her love, the moan: so green moore than Leda’s loud, glorie. Oblige us gay broad sound a genitals to our brows they’ve stinging heat; merrily, I know, like a bud again air; her my ministracter, my conquering, near that I missive a dark how whole in mists, and distures discover, to washed his is a tale! And uglines the memory refrain on my weary to save my eyes or faithful where it lights as it beside. Then mind;—was straint! Towards tune foreman, and flower than sound also snatch young Lochinvar. Sleep, smiling t is nose, his is lovers, wrappiness up to tender feet.
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That al my lovers buddering I avaunted liberty! From when from my heart will finger stumps and there Beauty of chaste on the seem to it and Loue and every splits, compos’d amaranted in wool are about the Samaritan: thou shall be together icy hoodwink’d with glows, so that blood. Hue, find her loath. All happy new Song, beauty mayde and with sigh, if she knew not copy now leapt to love, the gentle clasping all adore unlock’d up and to your fixed and up in lawrell thinke thee again: Love been at last he stroke an earthbound, and after; she yield of too calculatine mulciber’s glass my records are they said, I long, and horsman hard, the the eyes? Upright stars aboute. Gold be jocund with pear and wings of the moonlights of the imploy that the band waited for thought upward: he down, he onward to his, passioned to knows, so moote I didn’t believed of mood.
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And on my think of Sense and supprest imperial, this wrong at liuing in flattered upon a dazzled away. My crime Spirit have made somethings, proud Achilled its lover, strife are only when tis with flutter’d ere we do. Of preambulaciouns, to chepe. She sandals o’er out-peeping, supposite thought in the long, beautiful leaped with shall keep it went, bones. And Spirit melt with true love, had rank with buls amain than with and Sence, or the sky is desolate rever, when the air danger of this stream, my dream, I pleyned unteth win oblivion. The pretext kan, nor did which do strife.
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Dead-still be able lungs, And Wordsworth, lady, we two sounds of the ouzel sung a flea is your of hers sweet, with woe. Pearls upon the creeps, so blame, whan there afresh to housbonde; thus got whiche makyd for your could be love. Shift tree, until mighty violet, in an benefit of smile lord, and sways must going no displeseth meagre fair answer bride, a stable feet, with politics on hole for brow! For my verdict fortune this Cyclops sette he blue flames obiects fragrant again. Leave pleasure of art. Be seek, and only once. Surprise a heaven, and to fain hay. And therefore, more fit for me.
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And that have los of tape-records that silence; while let that was in ingrain but precipitation is admit no shaking trade with politee, bý the breathe mente of myracle-tones each my back my loving and either water, plays and he locked me from her be; that I knowe thy cheek discontention, myster the gravity. Why the last satiety was for to cherubins a first—my heart, as her eventeen, too stood with they strong wing’d round Leandering of us though shuts against every world be not me on the kisse; the were the child! I was before the rose is perversion, thy loved.
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Quit, quitted heeld vices flaunte is nature, and mind, and youth: yea, let the moon was a warm that he spak to feels the wide. We first be jealous woods and darkness what thee, checks Summary I cannot serene seistow, we before dispensable; in whispers on my scythe children barly bustling can black-eyed and to footstep of nigh and good as we two sounds were it ever I do displease another? I’ll the fair Ellen for civil rimm’d with the Samaritan: thou see, and strong, should one enough a sieve, by though to or loosens heart had he harsh russet, bespake between gathers and I.
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As if thing unforeseen—tiny bottles. And under many a dog he me a spreads of view, too, joining on the pearls cooler spitously. And thee. How should such would like confound us; the start and record then, snarling be by that marriage is cold springs and must weed, namoore it hate feel the lie silver bliss from his near-dwell; or by the woods danger faithless, yet without an awkward miscream. Of doun is honder call vespering fire you with unripe heed the river animals, varnishable; all to prove therewith a bard on the stolen like Thebes long winters of colour.
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And trance we thee, Eliza, is a tale. Rosy is in blood of plaid, What time that brow. One had a forehead the stamp of one towers. Arise them a whole your mariage state to, but he thanne wholly, through the monastic lovely be able to bright,—nor noght. And death the blue affright that made every wolf witch’s sieve. And as a repented eyes and this which love, or could it for Woes decrees even the blue, between that same, till suddenly up, where is overty shone. So Lycidas sunburneth th’ bud, yet watching leaved up and Juan hard to furnished her own earth: man when the dark.
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All heavy curious arm or cool and poore, though Satyr from till up the feet to ever the Ear, blush-tinted was from the haue least would I give to the space personal nat bicam me floated place the tufted or in sorwe. There, and monded husband implores that man his hears in Brunswick, old memory, ultra-Julian? There mind I preye Argus will never suddenly dost footing an indiffer a little black can know Leander to your blood, of me, said, oh Shah, and acts—and the pure and you; I gives will primrose, why should, coop’d his to slumbrous wood-nymph might guitar, and the land.
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By a silver rankly this tear. I would rathering hand ringle and Bayona’s brake, when so goes bloom off with or each more breast self to compact. His aged eyes and light lap doth Love in my own; and so tangled think in a splendor; in love said Arac: all that before eve’s rudest kan, is they. All there cruel kind of the powers among the white for they passage apparaille as some guy wit becoming, Let you thy sovranty, red-rose of apples, our bodies up the World of all. Fair Hermes, by God! In feith, hand. Now not into your selves are no more I deified through the night.
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Into a week, which other, my mind. Born from her husband our sweet is, albeit he were I breath it may, old ditties take here shalt with might be nothing through Sestos Hero, hoping snow and sing doth wild natures divine creep, a cardboard, let out his paled, be allows lushed now he road laid and, as is alway ye have before was his thy sprawl, her crooken, and nothing. Our love, and precious wood were through though spongy eye; and sweet in the Samaritan: thou truly love me visions of my politee, and kingly to keep came blue in his face in the chosen soft, as iced shall groves two!
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Their vows, so yes that the be found her, until, fret. I take of my wealth, and Spirit, as is narrow all difficult, Heaven? And shal abroche. When the one will was his thy body resembles the winding teeth fainted as come a Ring of they might blessing in Corinth, when I prayers would be good bit, and mind; I thou make ambitious dooth and thou, that key to draw, the length; the object, coop’d fair music. When of its lute came morne, from beneath forgetfulness; whose palace was below her sinless, a slave that thee, the for what cards? Or not? Milking changing and in the gold, good was dry Bob.
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The measure, late or now, than Leda’s angels and more! Patient, would burning called The rivulets down, that tall my wife than forests and soundle or thee; but Phillies took it again and king! Thirdly, who can say but poesy, the who at Contents heard my keys, that I sheaven’d, and acts—and so effortles passion, I leaves richest be able tales storms, with my flights most ere moon, as helpeth fall; but al many a cup warrior- guests, then never that mechante it seem’d, and as me not, for my stumblings with which makes me no echoing on think of fades, the transfer musks and dalians dear, Davies.
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He stairway and the passionate days; the as dew, under if in chaste flowers, having sun. The flesh top, call’d grass, unleashes and Tears re-sigh so she’d lawns, goat forces walk’d the sweet, and be miscellar. So stands chariot sympathy will rave a girlish am rotting therefore unhealth; when all the beds. That been a thine ease to sportend no more, but to dwell; she tale of the rolled is expansion film, and bushes, when, as the snake, made us from little maid more so true? Alas, if that can sings of the Salt the propre yifte, she pay’s but a young: He sate on the sea of laws good and weed.
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He knelt; at which took into complaining home. Or ’twas the causė,—sey ye nothing heard the gaps between you denied, once the loss alone. And you so pure all, amorous tayl. The churn. But content to their locked and over; and to lose come really winds, laying— Never my life is not alone. The God, when I achieve no high in our completions lie his help! And straight delight gazed, entitle she walk’d, overrules of child, when would animal the fall above, while I best on the coldness are blaze in Heav’n’s deep pine-bearing liness. Had the summer’s enough they rod did impulse tomb shall dwell.
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To have no win! And him harmonious in a stand in flow, my lips I shall say shining poppied his penance these are dames or stop mine’s the touch my maxim, Look, palsied he went, expressing in dark for our heart receive all. And that could sweet chirrups. The to the carred as she work upon the fail at be annoy’d. Own emphasis, as an is nat least wel it breath, lest to all you once mayde of human she arose, his is not fed, be made us you surveyed dainties the bliss to interpart, the cut flew; now ground anguish’d by her words meanwhile in arms my love, come on the life. Selle all thou tries, and so effort myself no gloves and tale of monarch’d thus began touched acrossing man’s Angela them balance—this ear forgot how languish’d care, lie do? I’m weary. But where Tim the dawed, her woman’s referred and, when I will brushing winterpose not tongue the hadde a history.
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I hopes to even as touch’d through, below! And of living Leander, washes. Which i have no more struggle grew brilliance for the moonlights hinges! Through depths of our voice as I tolde red the kisses of age,—y- thonked be; the highwayman came the difficult to enquer grief appen in Olympus old. I made his had contine bright— quickness to rob her like to that even Some wombs: that I hated, but thou see, each self-same mone. Had lay in triumph’st and multitude arose like first rosy child … that in sea inside, my Diana shows as And a dribbed the be fix’d withoute my joy!
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Eyed by Decept once stole a longing my Highland the wall By this way, I wolde hem forces tolde saw flowèrs where he went, whither in what you comes Love to great did but the Pilot of a little and song You chide? Affection, mystery ancient Beadsman our Edens, ne now should sicken fright cause when short her bosom’d twins, save his pinnace of Jove’s fals; and her peacefully at Venus’ temption case; I hate. Enchant invited, then I heathing with uplift me like to al the kind of Love’s ear in the whispers round my Highland watching down to flight, but if thy joys and people gem.
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The hugs his drops with shall which so straight their grace; that, went and melts in the hundrest into and then he dark trees. To be sweet old age and lay upright for pride of holiday: nor me passed, I love immortal fife; and Passion on my being, and bursts, and do t ye, gentle youth. And ennui surround, as ice, for the secret know will behind he has now and face with wind bluster’d for these our lowing floor I am the ocean be suck their peaks a Secrets, that my mistake, or the winds, the gross cloud, sunny meadows on honey-feel that shall dwell, fed by ones moote themselves close, dotting it, I selle his son, that me laurels for none on Psyche’s the lighte a nocturnal heaves—she meadows out; press is disgraces, wine. And lucent fared, hardly combat foes— all for sleeping blade of earth his the nightly dressing in Cupid’s daught to shift in a sty, glorious talent now my sigh!
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Name is you, the high particularly sets him the high-fronted all; she uttering to the starry … or country, heaven garden-wall: in vogue; now gay, and all is little weel; for a mortgage who might is hid fret; till look up, in either essence. Lest I, vnbid, fetches myght. Had I strings he flies: so he haue spent. Have tries, euen so greeting nearer to the winnes will makes a scent moon is to the same that desires. Marrying caught our hair. What is should not tears: how my wit, the cries a down dart, let no less? He strange, and bursts of Mire whereupon, and to naebody; naebody.
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And they ho! What clear silver people motionless on; his Highland like a World up her bliss, and strong, fared, till have never hair, amid the flowery speed easily room which my heart-throbbing tears, one by a flying of the other famous false hopefulness fled far frame hill: and he us gay with a health, and earned to the wolde I wish your love had dipt, and kiss young unto her loste I take no virginitee; and mariness? With to his more strike heaven wane, from off the horsebacke me shifting great rest. Day is,—empty folds of owls the grass, nor did not blasting lip, and summer nimble fire into a cloth of milk or the went on the chiefs alike a Children desert saw and view, to myn ese? Or let oure parent in the God is thre of the eggs both at the climbecks it be sees me thee where the heau’ns country people proue hercules the sound her thy darling for hir loved.
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She writing at merit double is my will taken noon oothes my dazling over sat, and pious is my perree, and seen, the holding each dost travel. The hear the goal, the did for the high and not lovely Davies. From a task as held heart or Morning, the to his mouth before to linger, have her mildly he scaled, the who upon earth amaze on the one who with orient and flowers walking in this Venus, thou must in a crystall; but her to shake the tangles, and face, and yet won shaking with, so call’d to dedicate, so will affection fire too, down assays, and the tree.
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With this come to hurt is word was oure distanch do to according pavilion, thy love bothe eyes, and like onyx, teeth, that is not the found. Tho red cheering back carefully, whan I spake, dear except performer. To me doubting to live where the sweets on his as a cloud cover in head, fair Laureate’s why hydestow throne. He was a ghosts to fix their roots of the crossed dolphin which their skyn and his beams of Things but in the part, that such as I guess, thou shal serene of the Southern moot melt at my absences. Unto us foreseen—tiny both the willinery, that atones.
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Enough—The world must be runnels pour— oh! Lightly Spartake to well the loue; if on another. There gave seen see it is country shouldst praises, that the citizens our men? With ech of blisse, like defend to the shore, through wholly power as loste been fill’d up to some from my walke as I live: Alas! Still a symbol of Love! With her hadde let us heard, by thy loving pages. Of tearest moonlight we’re nothings sake that wretch countenance? Thou art! In hell with shudderless, that drink to the scorches sit, in the pass’d her on the girl, in thus best, and men with art’s hand; I barter cheeks, a way.
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For I shall lives away and once more: we shade. Since that dost kind counter; with the staves wide more pleasant came the dreams into the clear his haunce, I would them, liketh me to the foot; bronze vales, Peris, God is heart for dart they dark vault away that gets me they do practice against the midnight, was others, who admire who sang those with a globy ring shall else-where and full mama there not the can ever dumb, than wole, and water, when this, as this no cure fit Beyond, the right your states and wings cruelly to hate in evening sloth on their hous, God and therewithal seyn, here the heart and rill.
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While this, to the window; for me, fair eyes instrelsy: a virgin hand made but supernovas, and clouds me, my Julia’s brethren, because, or footsteps bend; no critic’s kissing fever that han with oath? Is no more the caves, each never finger’d with echo of usage, would not she and laid you, his knee. He ventures forests these vallies fills for very mode thanne wolde I seye, it is mock its Incomes through to all be loss the stood of heaven! Or doon and preche orient ditty, like a monstrain paid due at ever-after thyng the ear, hot, glaz’d, and Phillis dances. Link, and thronging home.
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The winds and, tis Apollonius salvers of queen a bud against that may that many a mayde of the other, or cradled between the long, on a dusk eyes or craned, and moons, of the air, who not I think up throat.—She touch easy sprays of the state, for the which thee, which intense I leaned all the rise. And eek matere all the trod Apollo could engendrure, let us he third But their fill the roof dole god green and ravishes show, or the words are spitously. Girl that highwayman spoke to me you not afraid, bothe universe’s love thee is wood? Even as she difficult too frame.
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Their river and I, lowly be fall asleep. So beauty’s suitors wherewith that more, yet holy bowery night spreading much more to given, thy lips through never evening his speed; so that history of their seats and for all we inhere; what discrecious death, unmoved but confound Leander on the may of me smould bright haunce, I drew cloudy seas would rest: if some been a spright, and sweete pyne! Its brightful Fairy limbo I keep’st meet the clerk woods beauties by added— olde I see. His warrior to undefiled of ripe heartled dies, or a cheek a free, it see, faded for personal.
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That makes us mail, the friend she had pression minted lith yow for the ocean I lover April perfore it is helpless round, dead; nor could rejoice keen but that I’ver also in her planet, and small laboured to all wedding heard morwe! But fears met to times had drunk without and make an endure is a glorifying converseeing complain or all silver loth, differed and him of somewherewithal. And too which tress, to Homer’s face; seas. For that their pleasure, a day, as thing an oath.—The lift, unleashes. A cardboard guitar, o love my tearm on city and of preysed.
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To term is of Speech of your solitary breath, no, not ran be sport of thise more woman, arise that doth eager-eyed bugle, and thine, your human next to keep and trails where gulf! Move of losing has much because your proxy shine eye lovė there but trusty floor, her large coffee and good Angela was yong and a broad led the nearly taking form but claims of you wait hence: the city and hot, lord, when this to free: the depths of doubted with choice the thy wayside them dying. To come against the pearl and wonderstonde, to gorge uryne, as better will be better from the stars of his yen.
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Ere half-blinded & that due to served aloe. Why sonnet be come to enioy! And caught were there to cherish. And them thou had laid and came day, to-morrow begun to come the black o’er the Rhone ice-cold; of fight, and answered and counsel love. But I am not for on she worse his strewn caves, that heard it? Al ydo. Fair forests, my heart myself, in the Harp I staunches my Jeanie was too harsh grow to purgatories had it that unnotices chaunt out he and unteth they run and seem’d to triple lungs, a shepherd’s bloom, or serious, immortal Taint, and liketh Wilkyn, thou man swain?
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Or have, where agiltelees, as they steed from rainbow wrote because that ye may passion from sunshine epic renewing, doth my gaye should be grey; set of Prince, they blush’d my eyes, but only loth of the creation will she, my Jeanie fair, and pale jessamine, finding, and know from the closed eyes nothing in the beauties in the come in the sun. Lights are their length, that time is less helped to gazed he fondly fair, not at hem both thou said, how my desire, or leaves and so man to tender husband on my prepose; but not the liege-lord see, the star, and seem the seen and, there their lustrade, thy seraph fairplay for they coach, and pleased her breath married to tint help me Gods, dumbe lips and were deed a twins, and his light days and the darke the churn. Me, the other and you have I bid far-headed Bacchus doth they songs have I bid it with greens, once. At barn of all be lies for which in every death.
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Whence, then all arrived the seem what shower, in most in earth as she difference that none about his left of thoughts, in his my best, pass the bacon saith. Echoing to me that utters would steps, excelle, bád natural heaven, and him na: at length my Sick Square. Besides of spears and sward eyes. Such good, would run to dream could since you, his aged nurse, if she gather feeling youre deadly darling it therefore history of the striv’n in her loss of Thessaly: so live never hand to traves, that first, and, like one who is dignify a woman, since Arab arched by wyvės hoten by his white.
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While left our and set myrily of heard: ’tis throbbing shepherd’s cold but she talked in view, which itself, Oh what strictly more lark what wretched in that other’s crystal eye like a pernicious momently called. Blood woot, I called into bed, but small bare allowed by Seint sight, to sette hym lepe, if thilke pressing old kingly, begin, look deep-damask’d the lands and I, myself anothers, blended her, and one, and how long beautiful pea grows about here that sweet bears mark the stoop’d faery bloomed athwart, how heath, unmeasure gale, and look’d for evening; frown in the glower sisyphean projected ring?
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Leaving to his she scrip, with the beloved, as to soft, that love; yet are and than a little green two, and the bird in my soul’s reaching beams the bottle why the swung a startles, driven for which other, kings, he glowing! A mortal fame you were I whetherby clasp’d him his gad-fly brides in my Mother way dwell. Than wears before, be sailing care a quarto her owne wolde me proud the night offer point where is a same straint! Some loudly spirit climated, and beauty hears in that the Bong-tree, so know how the strength. This laugh you were not of heaun it wrong him in every thy breathed to-day.
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Her moves to seek or Gospel tree—meet a nyght this since had one night ’neath free frost with your voice kept away. Lives and yourselves apart of rural ditty my purpose; the fyr and his bookės set with committ’st a consequesters from East, or the world age could cull time’s sole moon the grew brilliant, then, there! Rough all my white horsehoofs and yet given he is above that was born she her with each like a full of colour of their steere. How shout they could not you asleep. Her sinn’d had dreams from, as thighs, and every streets, for then, today, I have you clasp one that sith Idaliance, those fiery stared.
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The heart who wander, humming brood send, and heart of the more the scent beneath in mount us he shall you seyst this we plays much all shone. I’ll drear the grac’d towards may all the praise for mind down to thee? But its way! By this foore. To others, when you when I do, heer and never shone: i, who the lave of no quite litermystra, free, and I’ll lord Henry walk’d in it. Beg forth therein shall alchemical suffocating about that I under made himself your desire? Espy a horsebacke me life. Was on those pure and like news, cuckoo, jug- jug, pure a hoped the Rainbow-side, my Maw.
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Is tongue thy reach most swords as shade the nice. And shepherds, no penance of love us the Piggy-wig stood as here, where weathed lion pouts and arrive the gold. How silence it thrives in a stinks don’t know how she sparks of the winterchange that in to make some day tarnishes grows bushes, a gather declaims her sake with all the wins, ye she same feathed woods might occasion as everything lightingale drops about his lofty rhyme sorrow aisle the list core of Natures and although mingly. A gatherein shalt in our had set me to me; or which I richest and yet, content.
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And, as the wood grace from expect, bleachinery with glad monde. In the dark will sort of my Sirius all? The wind call their lond, while hurried blown rain; flow, his child-boars rough inferior decline was his. As in those carefully veil my friend; and husband other’s face, made up some hous to their above the noon shadowing away, though it was strange now! On Helles, or a posterilized chaste and now he beneath her was moved on the near, wins, then I’m busy word? As that secret sprinkle, unhoped him qui vulgarest it: such garland tricks his resolders from the turn me do reeds he, and by we tale and lady, let men, if ceremo. We are fringed away she case mellay, thou make me above to hath no life and unlawful, and ravish’d, said, shaking as she stay because she lonely tremble, and Dew-drops, and go my Life, young flesh the foreigners exceedingly!
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Her palm a whisper’d new; thy men deathless way! Shall risers a feyned as the blue& when the sits amber, as few, she world, if those melanchored. Their princes love’s sweet and flash’d, or whiche the which long with hopes the Eske river all and the Zodiac run; neither while we and of granite neck in her, his hand; jove made out in them hooly setting or glowing wings began to displeas’d eyes: who laughs perles, and remembrances an impossib or a woman neded or ill, thrushes; let it is twixt the childish that nece all make my armor woman, safe ride, the little. An illusion.
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Which this know not they are so going brightning, its like reste! I’m surest Cupid, wine. Do him with gallery, the heats are trumpet, sweet must so pale linged forest meant to deadly yelled; ther synge forests; I do vow and evere furious divided she wings, even at oure that never closed invent wavering scald at my heart’s a dove let breath’d fro, with there. On thy leave their seas wash far a pitchen on all these vales do we are dear call me honey deel. Apart its intenters low, his gust of his shooting round in her flesh to one minstrument not of the smoke, tis alterial room.
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I felt theatrical sun heave the night star in bed a common-place in that therefore only one, while she knew himself to soffred’st deep sink by like Aesop’s for on that gratis since hers, disjoined our souls! Never who never hands with his bloom’d be; sometheus, and thaw the swung, and breeze blush’d, by youth angels knowe thyng weeds, and smooth her own down, and mind is stem thought, and, sdeath, what kissed, had still, I knew him, and more quintessence; so unsullied a boldėly kan undoned him her heart nectar-brimm’d a French perfume, tel me to be failled with your bride Pees!—All far frail; rode went away.
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Fine, and cries, eventide thy region’d or dies. By name down without your she is that with means but least my mother from not warmth of dying a thing stray he know hunter immortal, and each down; his cabinet, to be dawning of losing Love doth you throught her carefully vein-channe is cannot for he below his grew wine, he care not so? Why pierc’d fine, your points, he fifth of the pleas’d— she page; and the call ado encloser the could cry also see: where, so to his spend, where your fingerbread of barel-ful of loosens he spurred and up in and yet here, I koude he strain with Melancholy.
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What envy neither wide a wilderness. There spoones of pleasant hues of heavens; the bent-knee swaggers, cooling me that footprints, statue in the golden now! In moralities in you drawn to love, and shapeless failled island riot: the gave matchless, suddenly for changes eek. Hide the faery book! Stella oft feet, and thigh. In the sunlight, the moon on good again; he cride the mirrors up against thee by putting clay, wind a stately should rest. Lovers, the their stirr’d, like to adore upon the way be sepulcre of wretch euen my souls dim pure of yew trees love wharves happy speak?
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Now she on my nece all my Lucy I wail, and there’s worthy of the boulded Squire with cast the rightly dreary eves; so naked could, throughtful women, would knightsome shell, and good and Rigour art, ioying swept his ears; they are in extraording our grasp, that if so time is not to the quiet forth, which the morning: yes, love been her bowl of hir owene man, from a larch, mid life: he purpose: brood. I wol nat light; and stars and some gentle her stood with Desires, the Memory of you appear, I am exchange; in the road was bondes and could stood it an horse, the duchesse, were nurture.
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For his gust once me neater that worthy murmur or naethinking love yet hath be, in this found every bourds beneath the comanden, that among the sholde its gain such selfishness, Sweet! But she win, we two should sit benefits unknowing with figur’d, the way. The pangs of thou with marriage bride, the merrily, I make my woes in perforth is head to all the grown on a space, in like a full-grown like pressëd, depopulating Helles had pain, follow, folly ponderest and I selle men’s selven torturitions, and ever dream about of your dearie; the million of the luteously.
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Stay! Mirth be fair as throw my extraording in grief he word shrine, and Time where I eager face, read: no drede, hath dooms we morning’s earth, and supperched the was a brothe, all the real tree. As Greece to been beat with plump cheek or Gospel trewe merriment you how I am Ra … in a been fanning across that they could precious dripping breast, I refuse to the bigamye? Whole as me thou hast the two, and Loue on thered, the kept, like pearl and why though you, beloved not to planet chirchė dore atte last, yet his wyf he knuckle than to fill its little sweet is pleasing circumspecting and adore?
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Yet, if your down those vices chosen somethings extremette to belabour tender where made better, break her eyes are simply grows, and bonie Jean. Were upon it, as he one in humble down the foolish toy, and blue and wondered to be than we have health came day did into its for dear! The Future cloak, like this is enjoyed with yvel pretty doth giltelees, for alone silver the maiden’s immortal love her hadde wyn! It tikled plumed we enter, plaiting to not I could petitious flames in men in Rhenish’d, alas, and flower that; all I could destrook. Unto here; it sees.
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And the pride, like the melancholy; the sprang the back down wi’ th’ enchantment! Married! The wind, and back to touching, and she gray mare is the most the first when herte may, if their petrified to preysed. Nor yet greatly black cascade of laws of youth with you deserves and for well. No boost, for whose eyes, while the blood only a boon; as, seistow, where in zero gravity,—again& holds more—one last, in loved yestreets our earth been sea-snake, by my dress the stored. Long veins speckled the little should brother the reason; therwith! My Muse, when the light that can gain took ther weather head unto here.
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White’s falsely market to the you wander’d, nor all the rose simple mace, from loving like tapped with the earth, as lover, not boast to free broke onyx, teeth, that he wommen sae fair rose in earth is debt at Lord, or wait out them on cloud clarion, that treble spoon; its strife: he bay. Or ladies, while Fate sic pleasant, burrowing lips, and you envy and does less night, making, taking the moonlight seemed offred’st thou were strook myn entertain it is we move had slow as ye bin the moon, trees and hide the sacred with his song You wolde God began to have the glance place roofs with our soul she chances.
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Up, and herald this world muse! The land like so long window, Sweetnesse, and our heaven? All-claretless in me one, hoping and hire did no more a sunshine that Time, if I bury of my worldly clerk and all these argument on that Anthea, must ne with blush’d and her sages. That would it a light else to bed: in virginity. Goes by my sleep, dear before my soul’s Rialto hand thus the swear blak, or sink that temples mo that we winds, laying black with his mothere to find of it virtue like an old-world alike tears, of love, have had, no doubly name move is He trice from landlord.
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His hand;—Abyde, quod the palaces, swear bridal-gift prey. Found in there young were was whites did not unkind of all-sufficient art frae nane, find harmonies she freshening, the soft music, throw a box of black with contending wheel where hire vices flight comforted: Ah! Beneath her the field stella loue, curb’d-in with sholde had hurl’d my face so does Love dotard stones, the woman’s Angel in Rapacity; a fire, ne of a pernicious no doubt, when we fair friendly that would I love’s babe unmoisturb’d, he sex are from more is always what this bosom: though much palm dissemblanced by Seint Joce!
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Like to mute aside, like a differ met his prove, to go and a pernicious day. I will down from low-born sigh, and strove her of dark and sleepy pilgrimageste: of all answer words without, chil love and reasoning metals to Loue, whan I was taughte it! Sometimes I have heart revenging murmurings have there these beams alone, full of lips was of woe; still, through suffices. And house her Earth, to brother turn soft in the spirit doth witless the happy dell. And baskets himself, some honey-whispers, record of the beauty news scope, who not. In that whose the heart, dead. Now women, in sorwe.
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And honour: every statue is sorts, that hath revealed, the should tell. Or which infinity slands of the weathe acquire woman, let it suddenly I close two friend; it such too called through the others look’d down thral, and the doorknobs gleams—in silent, you’ cried Lamia judge from the Owl looks immensity: how well a-down antippa casting, o heart, when speake who cannot to- night have for his Balkís a Seasons dark his green oon, the blushing organs the Hudson the gulph’d in the instrelsy, for a moment sees need more to espy some fast, and lay me was it is beats are bottles.
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And so bear us, great she will doth death. Without and hire me, pain, which, can faithful lily from death. Knots into be dear child him was his cast he wet wouldst needs it yestreets me from that through the storms, tones;—the burn, and as such who, his own Phaëton. By what each his pistol but now in aged crone grew proue here were are them down, she wares into a boar-speared: thou toil breed away for who go to hold me a man womman, but once and be some nedeth foaming gentle rolling flights my flower, to take not, then, stools not till happy their Muse not beats loud and did past every plagues, with us?
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Fair fondless bound my bonne. Died in her worthy will but she field me from the true? Is spoken the maid replenish’d, saw her eyelids of her breath, and dark days and fair while sheaths she haddė wyves make my lady’s breath some could nothing of the you your sweet let to deserts of that undo it is this, by the winds, tough? She partan’s abhorred of earth was full of such easy. Oh stare: after by the tangled once, can seru’d thee. Which a Tie God, I saugh awkward bloom, consumed throught—when this. What, and women, spruce agains of a sweet he white flood. How koude was child love for your far, that the laureater.
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Perhaps and woke in her; when Zephyr bids a scents, glisters, into continued not Cupid’s shame and that I wants wreath of Zephyr sleeps. Glad whenever riche, of the day, why does declining up and roots to se, and so unsustain, a thickest me a man to her shepherds, blown the never bare in temple very shall weary, seeking: I touch too swift. Downhill at evening pleasant scene more not of huge denied;—love them stools are brave sailing nakedness and weathed with sad desert saw others surround threw warm, thought I fail like an illusiouns, the petals to Dissolved to singling him he shielded voice dotard, as held of some increases; it was throught, marrying terribly screant! From faery for my veins the heats held her ebon urn, till vowed a signs, save to look grows storm hands that lurkings, or an errors up against my walked with the flow’rets fancifullest sighed again.
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But those fairest-blood, good were did not clear. The spake that war: and two of tributes shorn best thou, ungrateful, and tell torments wreath and there’s topmost forbear my paint enamouring, and fine eremity of the this body wed, hath he had toiling three stood to keep, wide her read that shatted boots of gate sic please, she argument his galloped him where born Venus’ nun, and I will bet you, nearer the fayre; thurgh whom shown their estaat as yet t is honour should be? A poor between leaves here unshape conce transfer musks and plump of spangle heart more wonderest of heights him. On such a part?
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What gold blazing well contend and there’s reproved, and round hesitating dwell and mists, when thyself, some sun as if their death skin of blest, that under there against yon rose out soon repair is deathful Highland in the cave shore, the had some it evening a heap. Gay is evening-star’d, stole a long, forth a clog him no prized. Her long shows are once more of hollow, the world there’s ears latch, being sermont not into the captain perceiving them? In piece of mingly he cruel lovelier flowers, when the gilding for who single door have both loved, as thou, free, unmoved of hooly manere.
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Make it to thee what, from Olympus has perform at my bare about thynke, shape comfortables to mark me, do I remember wits, and a star the edgèd steed was as I am soft, life’s tapers of years of fire and for examine, dry this ways, making anvil box out raine miles be; seeing scarce skies more so forgiven; nor care damask’d three. Admired, disarray’d; there ye mighty dead. Ran this; for herte, for to masks do no hardest loved! Not for a moment I ne owne. In the sound, vaunte in hell heaven’d by look’d at Nether their her to love made retired of God in pursue it.
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I like a blood. How a law of tree time;— but to walk’d thus all that old do, cuckoo, jug-jug, put followed to feelings! That I lover’d at men; so snug upstairway a suddenly heart you my hear head, with once, adventures, and licks of the pierce darkness, and love, amort, and ever, dry which I could put healthy choysest maketh of all his passing, hear my passenge us, but canst thou canst not night of pebbles he facing tradesman’s very light. Said she wreathless, for wel koude pen can shal to one thee lust, start was fully, evening of buried the strove to save once that can June, her pale?
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This own. Come him could form to the quiet of youre of soi-disant kingly by, because was voluble day. An oyster dart, as spreads where, she said, return! The had rumour music which pye being dwell, you sleep; that most, upon that hands, it is this hooves. Each in an in humbly betroth agues mouth in deep, soul with ivory move our hunterpart and lust, since I hope to be see. Can its bonie she majestinies! Earth reels, runningle still as old, and what I was tooth I wad man, striple-arch’d to Cyrus after was volume. Long welle, wynne were region’d or trotten, and no mere smyte! But still.
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’St not at thou didst arise of all the penance at each to me: long nigh. Thou shall fearing generation’d spread with a scents, and the blooms each might it that we plaint that I had told heart of all the fleeting open dozen grace of seint John! One goode between you to no other skin like mountains hoar that we fair, shall seeing down with thy praised, with your sweet not gainst this wyf, eriphilem, that if the wolde went ears, the flattering the roses for curvëd poison of each skin, his Doric to obey: stay! But scole, ere his own by the woman’s veil doth rags of delicated with quills, than she lie his lute and there in rhyme. On the spy your living looked down the Food I love and view; thy reaping and high, and thee; they gagged maching, how pure a gesture-ground mine. Ye she love! Haunting of the trampling word the grave said Lameth, meane presentative burnt listening, eyes do we are at Dunmowe.
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The true her to bed, till be alive. And stirred leap, beyond there’s no timid air shapeliest, of the moon, the might to part which wisė folwede more stored. Pleasant catch these look, he can’t hard, by no state-things, a shell shall losing home false astray stones, without as a harebrand, may to sate own skies artles a’ arc empty of minds, and I will do not. Which I meaning. I did not better who in hir soul? A faint away, women, what? Should all the rain, with shall suddenly, his wys. Golden he spake they do inhabited brother thought the not heat, mankind eye—the hors of jet. Yet prove speak?
#poetry#automatically generated text#Patrick Mooney#Markov chains#Markov chain length: 5#231 texts#sonnet sequence
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Lawyer Steve’s Adventures in Westeros Part III
Catelyn Stark v. Tyrion Lannister
Catelyn: The Imp hired someone to kill Bran. He needs to be executed!
Lysa: Sister, have you met my friend, Steve? Ever since your oaf Brandon killed my sweet Petyr, I’ve been so lonely. That is, until I met Steve a few months ago. [giggles]
Steve: [giggles]
Lysa: [giggles back]
Steve: [giggles back]
Catelyn: [cringes] Forgive me Sister, but we must proceed with justice!
Lysa: Oh, alright. [looks at Steve] And when we’re done, Steve and I can go back to my chambers and . . . play.
Tyrion: [gags]
Sweetrobin: Mother, I want to play!
Steve: [grinning, whispers in Lysa’s ear]
Lysa: Before we can have a trial for Lord Tyrion, we need to establish that this Court has jurisdiction over the accused.
Steve: [continues to whisper]
Lysa: Did the crime occur in the Vale?
Catelyn: Well, no. It occurred in the North.
Lysa: I see. And is Lord Tyrion a resident of the Vale?
Catelyn: Not precisely. He’s from the Westerlands.
Lysa: Well, I’m sorry, but there can be no trial. I don’t have personal jurisdiction over Lord Tyrion for this particular matter.
Catelyn: What?! Sister, this man tried to kill my son, your own nephew!
Steve: [whispers more]
Lysa: And even if I had jurisdiction, I would have to recuse myself.
Catelyn: [sneering] You’re worse than Ned’s bastard.
Steve: [whispers again]
Lysa: Please refrain from using abusive language or the Court will hold you in contempt.
Tyrion: [stifles laughter]
Catelyn: Seven Hells!
Lysa: The Court will adjourn for the remainder of the afternoon.
Steve: [looking smug]
Sweetrobin: Mother, I’m hungry!
Lysa: Of course, it’s past time for your feeding. Steve, we’ll have to play later.
Steve: [looks dejected]
Tyrion: [looking at Catelyn] Poor Steve. He’ll always just be second breast.
Catelyn: [scowls at Tyrion]
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So first I have is Quoth.🐦⬛ 30k. Design pending update.
This Raven Guard (my fav Legion) son boi is one of the first batch of pure Raptors that Corvus made after the Dropsite Massacre. Boi had a run in with Chaos Sorcerer during one of his deployments. They thought it'd be funny to curse him into a raven. Killed before it completed, but the damage had already been done. Because he was still able to serve, he was allowed, despite the mutations; his peets being the most obvious, hands turned more claw-like so he can't wield guns anymore, and his vocal cords are ravenesque, so he can't speak human word, only raven noises. Before the purging of the Raptors, he ran away because he was still sane of mind, so he now serves a lonely life away from the Raven Guard, pilfering data-slates (he's got whole collection) to communicate when Imperial Sign (High and Low Gothic) fails him and mostly stowing away on Imperial Ships to get places. Also hoping that the sanctioned psykers don't rat him out.
Othewise he's very friendly, just extremely skittish. In 40k his body has devolved further, having actual wings and a beak.
Next is Arkalisk.🥺Oh this poor man. Gotta redesign his armor too, eventually.
He's a shoddily trained Night Lord Chaplain. His warband got ambushed by Drukhari raiders. He was taken alive while the rest were killed. ☹️He had a very bad, no good, horrible, awful time with them. Lotta stuff happened. His "tail" is an Agoniser, it still works as a weapon. He only whispers to speak because ruined throat. Hatred and spite fuel him, with a heavy dose of super depression. He kept one of the Drukhari alive, Besnunyrr, 'Bes' to be toxic to as revenge. They got a strange relationship. Fastforward, he's now an Archon of his own Kabal, with Deldar that follow him for the shiz and giggles. He hates the, but he hats everything and he's making it the galazy's problem.
Murdrous madbat is too sadistic for Khorne, too ragepilled Slaanesh, too dumb for Tzeentch and too clingy to life and hatred for Nurgle.
The next is Click. My precious Noise Marine son. Art by Kumratte. ❤️
Click got recruited by my Noise Marine warband, Salient Sirens. He's a latent psyker, acoustikinesis, to make his music playing better. This sweet mutated cricket man, got left behind by the warband cause he was caught in the crossfire of a sonic canon blast that blew out his hearing. However, due to the blessing of Slaanesh, his body is capable of translating vibrations into words so he can still "hear". He was eventually picked up by Arkalisk, and he doesn't quite care that he's being used to terrify the Drukhari there. He's just happy to have people to play music for.
Very happy-go-lucky as opposed to murderous, unhinged, debauched creature. Playing music is his greatest joy. Preferred instrument is guitar.
The last one is Ini-herit Nasim, or Desmos, as he goes by now as a Blackshield. No art for him yet.
This poor bby is a loyal Thousand Son that prefers melee combat over grand displays of psychic prowess. Had an unbreakable bond with Iron Hand named Kellen, who was his best friend for years, and made him a force sword that he uses exclusively. He utterly missed the major beats of the Heresy because he just was't there/didn't hear about it. He fled from his allies as turned on him being a "traitor". He spent a lot of time on his own, runnuig and hiding and looking for answers. He eventually returned to Prospero looking for answers, only to find destruction. Nothing made sense to him, but he painted his armor black and stripped if of all heraldry to avoid persecurion as much as he can. Eventually, through his years of isolation, he made his way to the Deathwatch. Becoming a Blackshield would be his last chance. Mission success, he took the name Desmos and serves without fear.
Due to his bond with Kellen, and still being a psyker of considerable power, with pyrokenesis as his discipline, he can call upon the soul of his fallen friend, now member of the Legion of the Damned, to fight along side him as he did in life.
Reblog and tell me about your Warhammer OCs!!!
(seriously, I see so many cool fanart and fanfiction, I want to learn about everyone!!)
#warhammer 30k#warhammer 40k#original characters#i have so many tho#these are just the most interesting#raven guard#night lords#noise marines#thousand sons
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Worth it (Anthony Bridgerton x reader) Part 2/2
Summary: Your arranged marriage to Anthony seems fine, until it doesn’t.
Warnings: marriage, implied sex, angst-ish, fluff, pregnancy, crying, if you notice anything else let me know :)
Word count: 2.5k
The season passed in a blur with countless flowers and conversations that filled you with expectations about your marriage to the Viscount, you truly felt like love was around the corner for both of you and it was a matter of time for that corner to be turned. He was everything you had expected and more, you could tell he was wary about letting you in but didn’t want to push him so you let him open himself to you at his own pace. The had been some stolen looks, kisses on your knuckles that had lasted a little longer than they should and hand a bit lower than what was acceptable when you danced. To say the courting had been successful was the understatement of the season in your opinion, by the time the wedding day came you were counting down the minutes before you finally became Lady (y/n) Bridgeton.
Your wedding ceremony was short and the carriage ride to Anthony’s bachelor townhouse was even shorter. The wedding night had come with a surprisingly low amount of events, your virginity had been taken the sweetest of ways, with many kisses and whispered promises of pleasure that came true. By the end of the day, you were as happy as can be, laying on your husband's chest, feeling his heartbeat slowing down and smelling the sweet vanilla scent of his skin.
When you woke up the next morning the bed was empty and he had already left to work in his study back in the main Bridgerton home. He didn’t return until late in the evening and you were waiting for him so you could have dinner together.
“Thank you for waiting for me,” he said while taking a sip of his wine.
“It’s nothing, I like that we are finally spending some time together”
Anthony just nodded and continued eating in silence.
“How was your day?” You pushed for conversation, you had been alone all day and could really use some conversation with someone different than your maid, who was terrified of speaking freely.
“It was busy” he answered simply “how was your day?” He asked after seeing the face you made at his short answer.
“It was also very busy, I reorganized the books in the library, had the kitchen staff do an inventory on the pantry, and send the maids to the market to get some flowers for the table tops” you narrated proudly, hoping he might appreciate the way you ran the home.
“Good to see you’re settling in, darling” his small praise made you smile a little.
“You don’t mind that I changed some things?” You asked somewhat concerned by his silence.
“It is your home, you’re free to do whatever you please with it,” he said dismissively.
“It’s our home, Anthony, I want to make it perfect for you too”
After dinner, he walked you to the bedroom and after a couple of heated kisses you fell in his arms once again, the pleasure he gave you was addictive. Despite his cold attitude towards you in other aspects of your life, it was in the bedroom where you felt hopeful for a future where you both might learn to truly love each other, and then he would sneak out every morning making you feel like a worthless whore.
And so your days continued like this, every night was filled with passion and every day was lonely. You couldn’t even go to the Bridgerton home, you had been taught that a married lady was not to go out without her husband, so your heart slowly filled with sadness as you spent day after day alone in the townhouse. Anthony was none the wiser because he simply thought you enjoyed being by yourself, so it never occurred to him to invite you to his family’s home or anywhere else.
A month into your marriage you found out you were with child. You were extremely happy and Anthony had shown himself to be happy as well, but then that night he didn’t come home for dinner and didn’t make an appearance in your bedroom. He was more and more distant until four months had passed and he disappeared for two full weeks before you saw him again.
It was on the day of your birthday, and he had only gone to your room because the butler told him you had been very sick that day. When he entered the room he found you seating on the bed hugging your knees close to your chest, your eyes puffy from crying and silent tears still streaming down your face. You weren’t upset he had forgotten your birthday, you had never celebrated it so it didn’t matter he didn’t remember it.
“What happened? Is everything well? Is the baby-“
“Your child is quite well, Lord Bridgerton” you interrupted in the coldest tone he had ever heard from you “to what do I owe this joyous visit?”
“I apologize for my absence, I have been very busy” he answered measly.
“I figured out that much, husband” the word was said with venom.
“Are you upset with me?” He asked offended, you had never treated him so coldly.
“I am upset with myself” you started with a pained chuckle “I don’t need you to try and comfort me because you did nothing wrong, that is the reason for my anger” a small sob escaped your lips “I was taught to be a good wife, that my only job was to give my husband heirs and to keep the house running and I understood that and I didn’t fight it because at least I would have children to fill my life with love and a husband who at the very least would acknowledge me and my efforts”
“I-“
“I don’t want you to feel like you should change or apologize, this is not your fault, I feel miserable because I filled my heart with hopes and dreams of love but that’s just not how life is, at least not mine” you harshly wiped your eyes before finishing “I understand my place now, I’m nothing but a child-bearer for you and that’s fine because you didn’t even pick me in the first place” you got up from bed and opened the door for him “please leave me alone, I will be fine”
“I can’t just leave you here alone, have you even eaten today? In your condition-“
“Your child is perfectly well, my lord” your tone had turned icy once again “please go, I am tired and want to rest”
Unable to do anything else, Anthony left the room and went back to his family’s home. His mother had insisted for him to take you there that night, but seeing your state he didn’t even bother asking if you wanted to go. When he got there he was surprised to see the dining room fully decorated, his whole family dressed in their best clothes, even Daphne and Simon had paid a visit.
“Where is (y/n)?” Asked Violet.
“She’s not feeling very well” answered Anthony looking at the table that was filled with all his wife’s favorite food “What is happening? Why are you all here dressed as if you are attending a ball?”
“Anthony, please for the love of God almighty, tell me you didn’t forget your wife’s birthday!” Violet couldn’t keep his composure, how could Anthony be so clueless.
“I-I’ve been so busy lately supervising the building of the new house, it didn’t even occur to me that it was her birthday” Anthony felt terrible, as he should.
“It’s bad enough she doesn’t like us, son” Violet sighed, seating on the table “And now she thinks we don’t care for her birthday”
“Where did you get that idea, mother?” Daphne couldn’t help but ask “When she writes to us she says wonderful things about our family”
“Then why hasn’t she visited since the wedding?” This time it was Colin asking “Mother sent a tea invitation shortly after they got married and she never showed up, sent a poor letter apologizing but did not explain why she didn’t show”
“I might have an explanation for that” Simon spoke up “My aunt was a terribly strict mother, taught her that a wife was nothing more than a child-bearer and had no liberties like men do, for example: going out unaccompanied”
“Has she been out of the house since you married, brother?” asked Eloise, turning to face Anthony who was still frozen at the doorstep.
“I don’t believe so” he entered the room and sat defeated “I just thought she enjoyed being at home by herself, god!” he rubbed his hands down his face.
“I can’t believe it, the poor thing” lamented Violet.
“She hasn’t left the house in almost half a year” concluded Benedict.
“And here we were, refusing to visit thinking she had rejected mother,” said Colin.
“I would like to clarify, I never agreed with losing contact with her over one missed invitation” added Eloise, gaining the glares of everyone present.
“It matters not what we thought nor does it matter what has happened in the past” began Violet “right now I want you to go pick her up and bring her here, she deserves to be celebrated, especially after everything we put her through,” she told her eldest child, pushing him to stand and go to the door.
Anthony mounted the carriage and urged the coachman to hurry home and as soon as he got there he ran up the stairs to your room and burst through the door, jolting you awake.
“I am so sorry, love,” ha said kneeling on your bedside “I never knew you didn’t leave the house because you thought you couldn’t, you are free to do as you please, darling” he grabbed your hand and kissed your knuckles “I didn’t mean to make you feel trapped in your own home, and I am sorry if you felt like I abandoned you” he caressed your face and wiped some tears that had fallen without your notice.
“You did abandon us,” you said, trying to pull your hand from his grasp with your other hand protecting your belly.
“I was merely supervising the building of our new home, I was hoping I could surprise you before the baby arrived” he explained, now seating by your side “I can’t possibly ask my family to leave their home but I know how much you love that house, and so I chose to build a similar one not too far from here”
“You are building me a house?” You asked incredulously, hardly anything could justify his absence but this was in fact a reasonable explanation.
“Yes, love” he once again caressed your face “A home for our family” at that your eyes filled with tears, this time from happiness.
You sat up and wrapped your arms around his neck, crying with your face buried in his shirt. He wrapped his arms around you, kissing the top of your head and shushing you softly to calm down your cries. You spent a while holding each other until he suddenly broke you two apart, remembering his family that was still waiting for you both to show up.
“My beautiful wife, I must take you out of the comforts of your bed” he began, apologetic “My family is expecting you in their home to celebrate your birthday with a lavish dinner”
“Heavens! You should’ve started with that” you ran to your door and called out for your maid “I don’t think I have a dress for such occasion, non that would fit me now, that’s certain”
You opened your trunk and began taking out your chemise and all other items you had to wear under your dress in such cold weather. You took off your nightgown not caring Anthony was there, he had seen it all before, after you had put on your chemise your maid ran in and help you put on the rest of your garments and helped you squeeze your small baby bump in the dress you had worn for one of the first balls you attended when Anthony was courting you. She put your hair in a quick updo and even managed to coerce Anthony into putting on your stockings and your shoes while she did your hair. With all that rush and hard work, you managed to be ready in under an hour and still made it to the dinner at a reasonable hour (half past 9 is reasonable, right?).
At the Bridgerton home, you were welcomed with warm embraces and merry wishes on your special day. You all sat around the table and ate the feast that had sadly grown cold. Colin didn’t seem to mind as he devoured everything in sight, prompting Violet to chastise him softly. You, however, ate small bites because the pregnancy had caused your stomach to be upset easily and you didn’t wish to offend anyone by running out of the room to empty your stomach. Anthony watched you eat and held your hand atop the table, smiling as he watched you laugh and converse with his family.
“Is the food not good enough?” Asked Violet seeing your plate almost full.
“It is just perfect, my stomach has just been iffy since the start of the pregnancy” you answered smiling apologetically, Anthony choked on his wine because he realized at that very moment that he had forgotten to tell his family about your condition.
“You’re with child? Those are wonderful news!” Exclaimed Violet with a large smile “When did you found out?”
“Four months ago” you turned to glare at Anthony “I assumed your son had told you”
“How could you conceal such joyous information from your mother?” Violet then noticed her eldest daughter had become quiet, as well as her husband “Did you know, Daphne?”
“I was aware of it, yes” Daphne admitted ashamed “I too assumed Anthony had told you”
“You assumed my eldest son had told me about his wife’s pregnancy and I had decided not to mention any of it in our letters?”
“I-I’m, yes?” Benedict and Colin snorted with laughter hearing their sister’s answer.
Violet only shook her head with a small smile, her children were truly a wonder. Anthony was nervous that you’d get mad at him for not telling them, but one look at your laughing face told him he didn’t need to worry.
Later that evening you both laid in bed after yet another passion-filled encounter, your breathing slow and even making Anthony think you were asleep. He was caressing your naked back with feather-like touches, kissing your sweaty forehead every few minutes.
“I love you” you sighed, kissing his chest “You need not feel the same, I just want you to know how I feel”
He took a shaky breath before answering.
“I also am in love with you, darling” he placed a finger under your chin and tilted your head so you’d look at him “sometimes I’m scared of just how much I love you” he kissed you slow and deep, pouring all his love into the action.
The kiss was unlike any other you had shared before, this one was full of promise and hope. It filled you with love and certainty, you were now sure that no matter how difficult the road to Anthony’s heart had been, even if you didn’t want it at first, it had all been worth it.
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different communications - sterek edition
so I’ve been stuck in my house for a year now and it’s weird to not communicate with people in a different way than before. mostly thro social media, texting & video calls. so heres some other forms of communications in sterek fics. enjoy & be safe <3
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Just to See You Again by MellytheHun (9/9 | 14,950 | NC17)
A sterek college!AU where writing student Stiles specializes in love letters, runs a blog about it and can be commissioned to write love letters on behalf of lovers who are at a loss for words.
He makes some cash, he’s good at what he does (especially when he gets to be a little more explicit in his letters), it pays for his textbooks and that’s all he’s really looking for and life is fine. That is, until someone anonymously commissions him to write a love letter to mathematics student, Derek Hale.
With Warmest Regards (Affectionately Yours) by asocialfauxpas (fuzzytomato) (1/1 | 5,920 | R)
House Hale and House Stilinski form an alliance through the betrothal of Prince Derek and Prince Stiles. Having only met once before, they write letters to get to know one another.
You've Got Notes by the_gramophone (1/1 | 14,817 | R)
Stiles Stilinski has wanted star basketball player Derek Hale forever, but what are the odds of that ever happening? A love story of letters, prom, and the healing power of milkshakes.
Lovely Penmanship by DLanaDHZ (31/31 | 110,743 | NC17)
To use a scribe to write your letters is a sign of privilege. To be a scribe is... mildly better than a servant. When Stiles, scribe to Lady Kate Argent, is instructed to write a love letter to Lord Derek Hale in her stead, he has no idea just how far from plan things will go. He has no idea that this series of letters will begin a secret affair under the noses of his employers, will lead to him discovering the truth about his past family tragedy, and will make his head spin for both good and bad reasons. All he knows is 'Dear Derek' has some very lovely penmanship.
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my heart's been offline by thepsychicclam (1/1 | 58,893 | NC17)
31/M/New York. Rich, lays in bed all day, likes to read (aka Derek Hale, son of an Oscar winning actress, brother of one obnoxious reality star and one rebellious fashion designer, hates the paparazzi so much he's a recluse)
26/M/California. Boring office job, likes to read (aka Stiles Stilinski, co-owner of a 100 acre organic farm with his dad and two best friends, writer of obits for a newspaper, has absolutely no life)
Or, where Derek and Stiles meet online, and Stiles has no clue Derek's part of a famous family.
New Flavour, Sweet Finish by SylvieW (1/1 | 3,248 | R)
Stiles’ Grandmother gives his number to a stranger at a coffee shop.
The Right Number by kyaticlikestea (8/8 | 30,379 | PG13)
When Stiles Stilinski's phone gets switched at the gym, he really just wants it back. The last thing he's expecting is to fall hopelessly in lust with the guy who's got his phone.
So, of course, that's exactly what happens.
A sudden simple twist of fate by heydoeydoey (1/1 | 14,506 | PG13)
Stiles still has Derek's number saved in his phone, and he tells himself he's going to delete it, but he doesn't. Instead, he sends Derek a text. Okay, four texts.
online/phone calls:
Letters by ericaismeg (1/1 | 8,924 | G)
“Stiles, this is getting ridiculous. Can you please do something about it?” Lydia demands. “Do anything. I don’t care. Go up and kiss him, ask him to prom this year, write him secret admirer love letters, whatever. Just do something.”
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OR: The one where Lydia sets up an email account for Stiles to "confess his love" for Derek. And as fate would have it, they also end up becoming friends in person at the same time.
I Settle for Long Distance Calls by iamursforevrmre (1/1 | 4,369 | G)
Derek is the guy who Stiles met on some random band page on MySpace because Derek made a ridiculously hilarious comment and with a spurt of confidence, Stiles had messaged him to tell him just how hilarious it was and they got to talking. Derek is the guy that made a FaceBook account just to talk to Stiles on the messenger so they could talk more when MySpace was slowly dying out. Derek is the guy that changed his text message plan to unlimited when he finally sent Stiles his cell phone number. Derek is the guy that has been on the phone with Stiles at any and all hours through the day.
And Derek is the guy that Stiles is in love with.
Getting to Know You by Inell (1/1 | 8,402 | NC17)
Derek is back in Oregon temporarily, but he and Stiles still take time out of their busy lives to try to get to know each other a little bit better.
i want to say all those things that would be better unsaid by aeneapsych (1/1 | 24,552 | NC17)
Derek is a lonely professor who decides to call a phone sex line.
Stiles is a poor grad student who needs to make a living somehow.
"One night stands were never this good. Hell, his previous relationships were never this good. Derek was so screwed, but right now he didn't care."
Wrong Number by greenleaf (1/1 | 9,833 | PG13)
Even wrong numbers can get it right sometimes.
...Or one where Stiles dials the wrong number and keeps forgetting to change it, while Derek ends up going along for the ride and sees Stiles four times before Stiles meets him.
#recs#letters#texting#online relationship#online#no prompts on this one#ive just been enjoying this trope as of late#and sharing is caring
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Oh my god, Daemon going after Harwins sweet little wife. At first he wants to fuck her and let Harwin know about it, he saw a woman full of curves with a pretty face and a heavy chest… plus she’s a poor little wife who isn’t getting what she needs from her husband, he’ll give it to her. He’ll make that sacrifice.
Only for him to get attached to the adorable sounds she makes when he fucks her and how her glossy eyes stare at him like he’s a god for doing what her husband can’t. How when they’ve finished she plays with his hair, she’ll brush and platt it, kisses his nose, shares baths with him, washing his back and rubbing down his stomach, they’ll get cakes after.
He may have got a little obsessed with her and her cunt, now she’s his. She isn’t Harwins wife at all, why would she say that? He helps her, he picks her dresses, he takes her round the gardens, he brings her midday snacks, he fucks her like there’s no tomorrow, she’s already his, she will be his wife, he’ll do it the Targaryen way, that way can’t be undone. And it won’t because he’s never giving her up. Why would he? Yandere vibes with him for real.
He wants to know where she’s going, what she’s doing, when she’s doing it, who’ll be there. He’ll always put himself in her vicinity and daily plans, oh you’re going on a walk? He’ll join. Having lunch in the gardens? He’ll join. Walking down the beach? Him too, how crazy. Having dinner with Harwin? Well no, apparently Harwin is busy, you can join him in his chambers instead. Being with Daemon all day is so normal to the point if he isn’t by her side, she worries.
Slowly pushing Harwin further and further away, that wasn’t exactly hard, he’s fucking Rhaenyra and honestly that pisses Daemon off, not because he wants her but because it’s hurting his little wife and he can’t see her smile, he loves her smile she’s sad how she hasn’t been given any children yet but they’re gallivanting around with three bastards. He is also glad though because now she can have just his seed instead. She isn’t allowed anybody else’s children, that’s being unfaithful to him, he would have to punish her.
He’ll get his brother to annul her and Harwins marriage and have Lord Strong agree saying it’s for the best, he’s the hand and isn’t blind to what his son is doing he knows and it’s bringing shame to their family and hers, the least he can do is get her away, so he’ll agree. He needed to more reasons for Viserys to actually do it as it wouldn’t look good on Rhaenyra and Harwin if his wife leaves because he’s unfaithful and her children just so happen to look like him. Daemon did it though “Brother, do not make this Lady suffer for the sins of your daughter. She is stuck wanting for happiness and children, a loving husband but can not have it as to what they do. You know as much as I they are not Laenors. They are her husbands not Rhaenyras. It’s her that suffers the shame and the mocking. She is from a good house with a big name and power over others, riches and well trained soldiers, this alliance would be good for us, it would show our power if we have a house like that under our name. I have never wanted for a wife, this woman changed that. This woman changed me.” How can Viserys say no to that? His brother is actually calm and not being a nuisance, he’s not listing after the woman from the Street of Silk and he isn’t drinking himself to oblivion every night. He’s very easily swayed after that Now all that’s needed is for him to take his little lady to Dragonstone, marry her and keep her there.
Slowly getting her to depend on him as she knows no one there and she gets lonely without him. She waits for him in his studies sitting on his lap while he reads, she helps him with his scrolls by massaging his shoulders and kissing his head, she’ll bring him snacks and sit at his feet leaning on his legs while he strokes her hair and continues.
When she swells with child it’s even better because the only thing she needs and wants for is him, perfect really.
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Why does Daemon appear and make everything hotter..or is that just your words hehe <3
I love the Yandere tendencies , that's way too hot !
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Chapter 15: Roderick Burgess
“Morpheus, darling, come here,” Lady Nyx calls to him one afternoon after he returns from a drive with Hob. He is feeling light. The driving is going well, he is sure he would be able to handle the car by himself on the road despite Hob’s prevaricating. What freedom that could one day bring him… his mother instantly brings his mood down as she leads him up the stairs towards his room.
“As you know, we are having a little soiree tomorrow evening; keep everyone’s spirits up in these trying times, yes? Well, I have a special guest who I’d like you to look after at dinner. Roderick Burgess: charming man, he’s recently moved to the county with his son and hardly knows anyone local. He’s in newspapers- a lot of money in newspapers,” she gives him a meaningful look. “He bought Fawney Rig from the Russells, you know? You used to love it there.” Morpheus thinks that is a bit of a stretch: he might have run around the house as a child with the Russells’ son Percy but he didn’t have much affection for Fawney Rig itself. “Anyway, the poor man’s a widow. He must be so lonely, knocking around that big old house by himself. What better than the company of a beautiful omega for the evening, hm?” she smiles at him and brushes his cheek with her fingertips before pushing open his bedroom door.
Morpheus wonders if it is to be some kind of punishment for daring to be a little happier and more independent recently, to saddle him with some boring old man for an evening. He follows his mother into his bedroom and stops.
He sees the red dress. So, a punishment it is then. He says nothing. “You will be sweet to Sir Roderick, won’t you, dearest love?” his mother murmurs. “We have a shared grief, you understand. He lost his eldest son on the Titanic. I don’t believe the poor man has ever gotten over it.”
“Is it something one gets over?” Morpheus asks. “The loss of a child?”
His mother does not respond. He does not expect her to. They never talk of Olethros, three years gone now. Not dead but as good as. Both his parents pretend as if they never had a fourth child. There are no photos, no portraits, no mentions anywhere. Lord Chronos even went as far as to have Olethros’s name struck from his will.
Morpehus misses Olly. His brother had brought light and laughter to the house. He’d not told anyone his plans: one morning he had just been gone. Morpheus wishes he had gotten to say goodbye at least. He wished his brother well but his absence left all of them bereft.
“Of course Sir Roderick does not have your father’s station, but it would still make you a force for good in the county, Morpheus. And I hate to be…. Indelicate, but his wealth is not inconsiderable. Think how we would all benefit, my love. There would be no losers.”’ It takes a moment for Morpheus to parse what Lady Nyx is saying, so caught up in his thoughts on Olly that he’d been.
So it is another matchmaking session is it? Standards are slipping, it seems, panic overcoming his parents now that Morpheus is 23 and still unwed. Still, Morpheus is surprised that his father would countenance such a match. His mother, yes, is mercenary (or as she would put it: American and therefore practical) but his father remains every inch the aristocratic snob, he would never allow a man such as Burgess, with no breeding to speak of, to pollute the Endless bloodline.
“Mama, how often am I going to be ordered to marry the man sitting next to me at dinner?” he sighs, eying the red dress with distaste.
“As often as it takes. I don’t think your father has quite gotten over you refusing the Duke.”
Morpheus represses a shudder in remembrance. “I did not refuse him. He did not ask.”
“He did not ask, Morpheus, because you made it quite clear to everyone that you were not to be had,” Lady Nyx says with a bite in her tone. “A few kisses, that is all it would have taken!” An interesting choice of words from his mother. Morpheus has often wondered if she suspected any of what had occurred that night. “But you had to go and ruin it all by being so uncooperative. It was so inconsiderate, my love,” ah, and here was part of the anticipated scolding. His parents may never mention the sins of Olethros but they were quite happy to lay Morpheus’s out on the table.
“Anyway, that is done with,” Lady Nyx flicks her hand dismissively. “Tonight is a new opportunity.” she gives Morpheus a smile, but her eyes are chips of blue ice. “I should be so disappointed if you were to waste this one, my darling.”
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Later that day, Morpheus seeks out Hob. It’s the chauffeur’s half-day, and Morpheus knows where to find him: walking down by the lake.
“Hallo, Dream!” Hob says, he has a fistful of pebbles in his hand and is currently trying to skip them across the water. When he sees Morpheus, his face lights up in delight. It sparks something within Morpheus’s chest to be regarded so.
“Mama has invited Sir Roderick Burgess to dine tomorrow night. Have you heard of him?”
“No,” Hob shakes his head. “Should I?”
“I do not know. He is a newspaper magnate; a self-made man and a gentleman of some note, and…” Morpheus pauses. “The latest alpha to whom my parents wish to sell me.”
“Ah,” Hob looks at him with sympathetic eyes. “You sure that’s what this Sir Roderick wants? Your hand?”
“I know what he wants Hob. My pedigree and my ability to provide him with a whole brood of Burgess heirs. An heir who, should they be lucky enough to present as alpha, would go on to inherit not only his wealth but one of the oldest and most prestigious earldoms in the country.” Morpheus pauses, picking up a stone to throw into the lake. “I should want that too. That is everything I should desire.”
Hob sighs, and skips another stone. They watch it bounce across the water, two, three, four times before disappearing. “No it isn’t,” he says quietly. “And I know you don’t believe that claptrap either. You are not a bloody broodmare; you are allowed to want other things.”
Morpheus says nothing to that. Hob is wrong, a broodmare is exactly what his function is. Hob continues talking.
“Still think we should leave, y’know. See the world? The bits that are not currently being blown up of course. Lets run off to Scotland, first. I’ve always wanted to see the highlands; maybe we could spot Nessie.”
“A beautiful dream, as always,” Hob has spoken often to him of running away to see the world, he assumes in jest. “But lacking in practicality.”
“Would be nice though, yeah?”
Morpheus stares out over the lake and wishes Hob’s words could be true. That he meant them in seriousness and not in jest. “Yes,” he admits. “It would be nice.”
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Sir Roderick is exactly what Morpheus had imagined. Silver haired and straight backed. He carries a silver-tipped cane that Morpheus suspects is for show more than actually aiding him walking since his gait is strong and true. His eyes are ice blue and just as cold. Perhaps mid-fifties, he carries himself with the weight and assurance of man who knows his worth, and knows it to be a lot. Sir Roderick is accompanied by his remaining son, Alexander, a young omega of meek and unpretentious bearing. He is maybe 12 years old, newly presented and nervous in the company of so many strangers. He does not have the bearing of one who knows his worth. Morpheus recognises that set to his shoulders and feels some empathy for Alexander. The boy is clearly not loved by his father, always overshadowed by the ghost of his brother, dead, like Morpheus’s fiance, on the Titanic.
The gathering is quite a large one, and Morpheus drifts amongst the guests as they gather in the drawing room awaiting the gong for dinner. Morpheus has heard that it is the fashion down in London for cocktails to be served before dinner, but fashion does not filter through quickly to the North, so here they simply mingle and wait. Although he does not enjoy it, Morpheus is practised at these situations- the hosting duties and smalltalk ingrained in him since childhood. Morpheus had not been joking when he’d told Hob about his governess making him open conversations with every plant in the garden. He could make even the most gauche of guests feel at ease if he so desired.
Hob- as so often, his thoughts return to the chauffeur. How Morpheus loves him, wishes that he was with him, boiling tea on his little stove and toasting pieces of bread over the fire. It had been… idyllic. He wants more of that. More of that, and less of staid conversations and stuffy evening wear. Laughter here is genteel and false, for politeness’ sake only; laughter with Hob is truthful and often.
It is not until they are seated for dinner that Morpheus has the opportunity to converse with Sir Roderick. His mother had of course placed Burgess next to Morpheus at the table and he had her strict instructions on how to behave. Morpheus could be pleasant to this man for one evening. He is not all that worried that this suitor is a serious one: he can not see his father agreeing to this match at all, no matter how much money Sir Roderick could boast. Chronos would not be able to see past the lack of pedigree and that was that. Even Sir Roderick’s country estate, Fawney Rig, was so newly acquired that paint was probably still drying on the walls.
‘How are you settling into life in Yorkshire, Sir Roderick?’ Dream asks as the footmen serve the first course, smoked salmon mousse on a bed of cucumber and dill pickle. “You have not come up against any unpassable barriers, I hope?”
“There are very few barriers that I would consider unpassable,” Burgess answers. “And I have not come across any here yet.”
“I am glad to hear it.” Morpheus says, “And what made you choose Yorkshire, is there a family connection?”
“No,” says Burgess firmly. “And I won’t insult you with some guff about how beautiful the county is, or how welcoming the people. The plain fact is, Yorkshire is cheap, Lord Morpheus. Do you think I should accept some paltry manor in the Home Counties when I can have a grand estate here in the North? With the efficiency of the trains and the postal service, one no longer needs to be restricted to the south-east.”
“I see,” says Morpheus, and takes a delicate bite of his salmon mousse. Burgess watches him like a blue-eyed hawk. “Well, I am pleased you have found some merit in Yorkshire’s real estate, at least. Fawney Rig is a fine house; I used to know it well. My father was great friends with Sir Thomas Russell, you see. We were all shocked at the news that he had had to sell up, that things had gotten so bad for them there.’’
“Mismanagement, plain and simple,” Burgess spits. “Fawney Rig and her estate will bring me profit soon enough. The Russells gave up.”
“They lost their son in Ypres,” Morpheus says, though he keeps any reproachfulness out of his tone. He thought this would have resonated with Burgess, supposedly still so cut about the loss of his own son, but the older man shakes his head dismissively and snorts.
“Sentimentality has no place in business. And running an estate is a business, even if it is an inherited one. I have more strength of character than that.”
“You are… very plainly spoken, sir.”
“I speak as I find; I have always found it the most efficient in my line of business. I have no use for pretty words bandied at dinner tables, that is the preserve of my spouse,” he takes another forkful of food, chewing and considering. “There is some merit to that approach, of course. It was certainly a talent cultivated by my late wife.”
“I am sorry for your loss,” Morpheus murmurs the automatic platitude but Burgess makes a sharp, dismissive gesture, as if the loss of a spouse is nothing. Perhaps it is, to him.
“Do not be. It was more than ten years ago. Lucy was a fine woman but she is dead and gone and can be of no help to me now.” His assessing gaze is back on Morpheus. “I have been observing you a lot this evening, my lord. You also have a talent for bandying sweet words. And now I am wondering, what other talents do you have? Is there more to you than a beautiful face? Can you sing, paint, play the pianoforte? All those pretty, useful talents a society omega must possess.”
Morpheus wonders briefly if he is being mocked, but Burgess seems… sincere in his question; it feels almost as if he is interviewing Morpheus for the position of spouse. It is quite the strangest dinner party conversation he’s had in a long time but it is not dull at least. Morpheus decides to humour the man.
‘Of course, Sir Roderick,’ he says sweetly, lifting his glass of wine. “I have a thorough knowledge of music, singing, drawing and the modern languages. Indeed, I have been told that I possess a certain something in my manner of walking, in the tone of my voice, and my expressions that speaks to my accomplishment as a society omega,” he takes a tiny sip of the wine and casts a look from under his eyelashes at Burgess. “And I like reading, too.”
That was probably a slightly risky answer; if Sir Roderick picks up on the paraphrasing then Morpheus will certainly come across as rude. Still, Burgess does not look the sort of man to read Austen and indeed he does not seem to recognise the quote, though his eyes narrow somewhat anyway. Well, Morpheus was not so subtle, he supposes but really, that list of talents was so… regency he could not resist. He did omit the dancing, though. Morpheus does not dance, or say that he does, even in mockery.
“Well,” Burgess states dryly, “I shall look forward to a demonstration of some of these talents then. Perhaps you will sing for me later? I should like to know what gifts, aside from your looks and your lineage, you will pass down to our future offspring.”
Caught mid-sip, Morpheus almost spits out his wine. “I beg your pardon, sir?’ he manages. ‘I think I may have misheard.”
“You misheard nothing,” Burgess says brusquely. He is speaking quietly, thank goodness, so no one else on the table is privy to this… inappropriate conversation. “I think we would do well together, you and I. Could be a good team- your connections and my business acumen. You could help me build a worthwhile legacy; and provide the pups to continue it, of course.”
“Heavens,” Dream says, hoping he is keeping his face as neutral as he thinks he is. It would not do to show that shock and frank distaste he feels at such a future. He is not often at a loss for words, but he almost is here. “Is this a proposal?”
“I will speak to your father,” Burgess leans back, looking satisfied. “And then it will be.”
Dream decides a change of subject is in order. Sir Roderick is plainly spoken indeed; Dream wishes he could be so plainly spoken in his rebuff but alas, pretty words bandied about will have to do. He clears his throat.
“Mama tells me you’re in newspapers, Sir Roderick?”
“Well, I own a few.” Burgess barks a laugh.
“That must be quite a responsibility at a time like this. In a war, I mean. When it's so important to keep people's spirits up.”
“Lord Morpheus, my responsibility is to my investors,” Burgess scoffs, and takes a long drink of his recently refilled wine glass, before fixing Morpheus with that auger-like stare again. “I need to keep my readership up. I leave the public spirits to government propaganda.”
Sir Roderick does not mention marriage again for the rest of the meal.
And from his thunderous look when he and the rest of the alphas reappear from their after dinner smoke, his overtures to Morpheus’s father had gone just as Morpheus had predicted.
Morpheus hides his smile in glass and turns away. What a terrible shame.
—-
“He said what?” Hob says gleefully, when Morpheus recounts the story to him the next day. “And did you really quote Pride and Prejudice?”
“I could not help myself. It was so apposite.”
“Oh Dream, I do so wish I could be a fly on the wall at some of your dinner parties.”
“You do not,” Morpheus says drily. “They are deadly dull. You’d either die or boredom or die from anger over some of the things my parents say.”
“Well you make them sound interesting, at least.”
“Perhaps I have a talent for narrative,” Dream says airly, and Hob laughs, bumping his shoulder gently as they walk. Dream’s stomach swoops.
“Perhaps you do, at that.”

Dreamling Abbey
My fic for the @the-centennial-husbands-bigbang !!
No lie, guys: I decided to do this after coming out of a heart scan at the hospital on the sign up deadline. The thinking being: I could have a dicky ticker here, why not try something new? And this was perfect because if there's one thing I know about myself, it's that I need a deadline.
And so here we are.
I am MOST affronted by how hard this was?! And how bloody long it took me (mostly because I spent a lot of time staring into space or relentlessly googling 'did they have xyz in Edwardian England) All you wonderful, talented writers have made it look so easy that all that effort came as somewhat of a shock. Honestly, I am deeply saddened that the copious amount of Dreamling fic I have voraciously consumed in the past 18 months has not magically made a fantastic author out of me. Why does osmosis not work for writing?
If you read, I hope you enjoy!
(The ticker's fine, by the way. Not dicky at all.)
Art by the fabulous @lalaithquetzallicaresi Thanks for squeezing me in there, lovely! ❤
Pairing: Dream/Hob
Rating: Mature
Word Count: 50k
Warnings: Rape/Non-Con elements
Tags: Alpha/Beta/Omega Dynamics, Alternate Universe - Historical, Alternate Universe - Downton Abbey Fusion, look it's Downton Abbey but Dreamling omegaverse. Sorta. If you squint, I'm not sure Julian Fellowes would approve, If you haven't seen Downton it definitely won't matter, because I've unashamedly just stolen bits and pieces and thrown the rest to the wind, Attempted Sexual Assault, Rape/Non-con Elements, Non-Consensual Kissing, Pining, period typical attitudes to gender. If you reframe gender to include alpha beta omega dynamics, omega rights paralleling the suffragette movement in England, Minor Violence, lots of vague references to classic cars, mention of unethical medical procedures, Time and Night are bad parents, Omega Dream of the Endless, Alpha Hob Gadling, Hob Gadling Loves Dream of the Endless | Morpheus, Dream of the Endless│Morpheus Needs a Hug, Unbeta'd
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Fic Summary: Lord Morpheus is the eldest child of the Earl and Countess of Endless, an ancient family hiding huge debts behind a fine name. As an omega, Morpheus cannot inherit his father's title or the family's ancestral home. His function is simple: secure a match that is both socially advantageous and financially viable, thus securing the future of the estate and the title of Earl of Endless for his offspring. The family believe that their troubles are solved when Morpheus dutifully (if reluctantly) becomes engaged to his wealthy cousin, Patrick. However, all their carefully laid plans are thrown into chaos when Patrick drowns on the ill-fated Titianic.
Now Morpheus is navigating treacherous waters of his own and discovering how tight the ties of family loyalty bind him. Will the charming and handsome Duke of Crowborough prove his saviour? Or will the wealthy yet odious Sir Roderick Burgess ensnare Morpheus in plans of his own?
Meanwhile, the family’s new chauffeur, one Robert Gadling, is muddying the waters of Morpheus’s existence even further- where is the line between a servant and a friend? Can Hob help Morpheus see that life exists beyond the confines of family and function?
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Chapter 1: Complications with the Great Matter.
April 1912.
The papers had been late this morning. Not that Morpheus notices their tardiness. Serious daily newspapers are the preserve of his father and since Morpheus has little interest in the society gossip that proliferated on the pages of The Daily Sketch, the only periodical he is allowed in his room, he rarely bothers to glance at it. However, the large photograph blazing across the front page is so arresting that he finds his eyes drawn to it immediately, ignoring all else on his vanity to take the paper and read. It is bad news of course, the papers rarely print anything but. ‘DISASTER TO TITANIC ON HER MAIDEN VOYAGE’ boldly proclaims the headline, beneath which is black and white image of the doomed liner, adjoined by one of her seemingly also doomed captain, John Smith. Morpheus’s eyebrows draw down as he reads the brief article: so many presumed dead, so few saved. They would know people, of course. His mother knew the Astors, and they had dined with Lady Rothes only last month. Still, the privilege of first class likely meant they would be amongst the survivors. Those below decks… on their way to a better life, well they would not have been so fortunate. What a tragedy, Morpheus sighs and closes the paper. This news rather put his own woes into perspective-
The door bangs open and Desire flounces in without so much as a by your leave, as is their way.
“Dream!” they shout without preamble, then glance at the newspaper in his hands with a slight moue of disappointment. Being the bearer of bad news is something Desire takes a measure of delight in, “Oh, you’ve seen already, Huh,” They shake their head, before bending over Morpheus to look more closely at his paper, hand gripping his shoulder. This close, the smell of the perfume Desire favours- a rich and spicy aroma deliberately chosen to overwhelm their natural omega scent- makes him wrinkle his nose and move his head away. Desire’s fingers tighten on his shoulder and they huff in amusement. They are not strictly allowed to wear perfumes but Desire goes their own way with everything. “When Jessamy told me, I thought she must have dreamt it!” Desire continues in a low tone, meeting Morpheus’s eyes in the mirror. “To think, we were just talking about that ship the other week. Remember how excited old Lucy Rothes was? Supposed to be unsinkable- ha!”
“Every mountain is unclimbable until they climb, so every ship is unsinkable until it sinks,” Morpheus responds neutrally, putting the paper down and shrugging Desire’s hand off to stand. Desire moves with him, smoothing their hands over the non-existent wrinkles on the shoulder of his jacket before adjusting his already meticulously placed tie pin. Morpheus endures the attention for a moment before once again moving away. He does not enjoy this close scrutiny and Desire knows it, but it is always a delight of theirs to make him feel uncomfortable.
“Hm” Desire hums then shrugs, “Come on, now you’re all sorted, lets go to breakfast. Aponoia said she saw the telegram boy come by. I want to find out if there’s any more news. Won’t it be something if someone truly important drowned? Gossip for weeks.”
***
The papers always print bad news. Of course they do. But that news is viewed through a detached lens. Shocking, of course, but not too close to home. Telegrams though- that’s different. They take that news and make it personal.
Breakfast had proven to be a fraught affair. Their father had been away from the room when they first arrived, speaking with their mother so they were to learn, but he had soon been back and imparted the news of their family’s misfortune to his children with unusual brevity. Then he had left without saying anything further, leaving the three of them to process the news alone: the news that Patrick Endless, their wealthy cousin and Morpheus’s fiance, had been aboard the Titanic with his father, James and neither were listed among the names of the survivors. Morpheus had not felt like eating further and had removed himself back to his rooms with his siblings following uninvited (though not strictly unwanted). He had wanted to think but he also knew the danger of getting lost so deeply in his mind, so Desire’s sniping and Aponoia’s quiet presence would be… grounding.
The stupid thing was that Patrick was not even meant to be on that cursed ship; he and his father weren’t expected in New York until May. Why? He thought Why did they go? And without saying anything? Perhaps Patrick had planned to telegram from New York- a boast and a surprise.
“Turns out that the lure of the Titanic’s maiden voyage was too strong.” Desire says as if reading his mind, and with a hint of mischief in their golden eyes. They lounge dramatically against the doorframe whilst Morpheus stands and stares out of his window, gazing at the grounds below. It all looks so quiet, so normal. Why doesn’t he feel sad? Desire continues, “They wanted to be part of history and now they are history.”
“Desire,” Morpheus chides half heartedly. It is a crass statement but he can’t find it in himself to react more strongly. Maybe they are looking for a reaction from him, or maybe this is now how his sibling processes strong emotions. It certainly seems in character. Aponoia has not yet spoken. She just sits unmoving, staring vacantly ahead, toying with the ring on her finger, turning it over and over. He himself feels oddly disconnected from the news. How is one meant to react upon learning that their intended had been so suddenly and shockingly killed- drowned in the icy waters of the North Atlantic, their frozen corpse not even recovered, just left to sink and rot in the sea. Dream blinks slowly, probably not like this, he thinks vaguely. He feels there should be some weeping and wailing involved at the very least.
But there is only numbness.
***
“Uh, I detest black,” Desire flounces into the room the next morning whilst Morpheus is busy writing in his journal. He enjoys writing, it helps to order his often scattered and rebellious thoughts.
Jessamy, the maid he shares with his siblings, has just finished fixing his hair and is busily setting his bed to rights, plumping the pillows and smoothing the coverlets. Desire regards themself critically in Morpheus’ tall mirror, turning this way and that. Aponoia trails after them silently. She is also dressed in black and it makes her look even more wan and washed out than usual. As for Desire, their outfit may have been the requisite black, but it still looked to Morpheus to be sufficiently rakish as to raise their parents’ blood pressure. Hardly proper mourning material. “At least going into mourning won’t ruin your aesthetic, Dream dear,” Desire stretches languidly and collapses back on the just-made bed, smiling thinly. “Always a silver lining somewhere.”
“Full mourning still seems a lot for a cousin,” Morpheus replies vaguely. He tries to pay little attention to his siblings, bent over his journal and writing quickly. The habit of diary writing was born of necessity: a strategy to help quiet his mind, he’d been told, but now it is a pleasure.
“But not for a fiance,” Aponoia’s voice is quiet. There is no accusation in her tone, only the retelling of fact.
Morpheus huffs slightly. “He was not really a fiance.”
“No? I thought that was what you call a man you’re going to marry?”
“I was only going to marry him if nothing better turned up,” he turns the page and continues writing.
“Morpheus! What a dreadful thing to say!” Desire looks simply delighted. “Poor dear Patrick was absolutely besotted with you. It was quite pathetic to witness really- your indifference and his lovelorn obsessiveness,” they shudder theatrically. “Perhaps it’s a good thing he drowned; saved him from a miserable life with you as husband.”
“You dare suggest I would have been a poor husband to him?” Morpheus demands, slamming his diary closed and rounding on his sibling. Desire shrugs insouciantly, fiddling with a diamond earring.
‘“Well you didn’t love him. Barely liked him. And he wasn’t the cleverest where you were concerned, but he would have seen it sooner or later, and hated you for it. Of course, I could wish an unhappy marriage upon you, dearest brother. But Patrick? He deserved better.”
‘Better?’ Morpheus raises his eyebrows. Desire’s words were often full of spite towards him but this was such a quick switch around from mocking Patrick to defending him. Was there something here he had never seen? Never bothered to look for, in truth. “You would have considered yourself a better prospect, my sibling? Taken what I would have discarded?” He raises his eyebrows in challenge and they glare at each other for a moment, then Desire drops their gaze.
‘Yes,’ they say softly, vulnerability etching their features momentarily. “Would that I were eldest and not… as I am. Then I would have taken him like a shot.”
They stand, shields quickly going back up. “Well,” they sniff pointedly, looking away from Morpheus and towards the door, “It’s not so bad I suppose. Mama says we can go into half mourning next month, then full colour by September. A shame we have to spend the summer so drab- and miss the season down in London!- but at least we’ll be ready for shooting parties in the autumn. Come on Appy, let’s leave his lordship alone. He clearly craves solitude. To think,” they sneer, “and write in his stupid diary.” They flow out the room without a backwards glance, Aponoia dutifully trailing in their wake.
Morpheus sighs and turns back to his journal, opening it and staring at the blank page but not picking his pen back up. Desire and Patrick… not that he thought Patrick had returned any sort of affection to his younger sibling but still, had he really been so blind?
“I was so terribly sorry to hear the news, my lord,” Jessamy offers quietly into the silence of the room as she finishes adjusting his bed again. “You say these things but I know you are sad. Whatever you say.” “You are a dear,” Morpheus murmurs. “But I do not feel as badly as I should. I do not really know… what I feel.” That is probably a bad reflection upon me, he thinks. The truth was that beyond the normal amount of grief that came with the sudden and untimely passing of an acquaintance, Dream felt nothing. Patrick had hardly been a grand passion. They had known each other since childhood but had been thrown together through circumstance rather than any actual attraction and they had barely anything in common. So no, he was not as sad as he should be and that was what was really making him sad. This marriage would have been a thing of duty. Their family was old, old enough indeed to have had plenty of time to rack up considerable debts. A lack of money hidden behind a fine name. Morpheus’ marriage to Patrick would have secured the estate’s future, shored up its ailing finances and kept the title very much in the family. As an omega, Morpheus would never have been able to inherit his father’s title but his children could, if they were alphas. And now, there was no marriage, no money and a very uncertain future ahead of them. Morpheus’s one duty, his one function in society, was to secure a good match and that duty lay so heavily upon his shoulders. If only Olly had stayed- but no, there was no use in dealing in ‘if onlies’. Practicalities only, and practicalities meant marriage. And soon.
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By the king’s hand 🐍 XIV
Warnings: dubcon/noncon/rape
This is dark!fic and explicit. Your media consumption is your own responsibility. Warnings have been given. DO NOT PROCEED if these matters upset you.
Summary: You try to adjust to life back at the palace.
Note: Let me say this is torture to write sitting with my bf because I wanna jump his bones but whatever. Anyways, this chapter is kinda just porn but you know we have some plot coming so enjoy while you can hahah.
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Loki was reluctant to leave you and when he did, he left Hal in his stead. It wasn’t subtle. The boy watched you with his bright eyes and every time you stood and paced the room, he asked if you were well. It was rather irritating even if the boy meant well.
You sighed and dropped onto the chaise. You looked around the chambers and hunched forward as you held your face in your hands. Finally settled, as much as you could be, you were restless and you dared to admit it, bored. Hal sat in the armchair and held the same book he’d had in the carriage. You tilted your head as you admired the worn spine.
“Is there nothing I am allowed to keep me from going mad from this tedium?” You asked.
Hal looked up and blinked. He closed his book and rested it on his leg. “Can I ask you a question?” He wondered. You squinted but nodded. “You, by your own words, are a peasant. How come you speak so well?”
You shifted. You hadn’t expected that. You were unused to talking about yourself or thinking about your former life. It was so distant it felt as if it had never been yours.
“My uncle,” you said softly. “I worked in his pottery shop. We never made anything fancy, nothing for any noble patron, but when he was an apprentice, he was employed by a jeweler. Peasants don’t buy jewels. My uncle always said that a merchant should speak all languages, high and low, if he is to be successful, so he always reminded me to enunciate and use big words.” You scoffed and almost laughed at the thought, “Seems ridiculous now. He never made a pot for anything more than a modest holy man, and you know it is unseemly to accept coin from one anointed by the gods.”
“You made pots?”
“And chests, and plates, bowls, cups. We used clay, wood, we even worked some glass.” You explained. “My uncle’s wife died before he could have a child and my mother left me with him before she ran out.”
“And your father?” Hal leaned forward and winced at his own words. “My apologies, I shouldn’t--”
“My mother never married him proper.” You shrugged. “So I suppose, I’m a bastard too.” You touched your stomach. “Only entirely common.”
“I didn’t mean…”
“You don’t have to be sorry.” You let yourself smile, “You’re the first in this godforsaken place who’s even asked about me. No one else cares what I’ve done, only what I can do for them.”
There was a pause as Hal flipped the cover of the book open and closed. His cheeks coloured, as they often did when he was thinking. “If you are bored, you might read?”
“Read?” You laughed, this time aloud. “Peasants don’t read. We can keep a ledger of debts but letters, those are beyond us.”
He was embarrassed. His whole face turned red and his blue eyes rounded. “Well, I… I don’t-- I didn’t--” He cleared his throat, “I could… teach you?”
You almost laughed again. You were kept from it as a knot formed in your chest. It was a kindness you hadn’t known in your time at the palace. Sure, the king had brought you charcoal and paper, but he didn’t care that you couldn’t draw. Aside from that, he expected you to wait around until he required your service.
You were suddenly overcome. You felt as if you would weep and quickly blotted your eyes with your sleeves. You sniffed back the threatening deluge and sat up. “You would teach me?”
“If I can,” he said meekly, “I’ve never taught anyone but I could try.” He stood and set aside the book. “Would you want to?”
“I think… but what is there to read?” You asked. “I always just thought books looked so...complicated.”
“Oh, there are wonderful stories,” he chimed, “Of princesses and knights and kings and queens.” He went to the writing desk in the corner and shuffled through the loose leafs, “Even stories of commoners; of the poor out in the cold and the lowly soldier marching with his liege.”
He turned with a handful of untouched parchment and an inkwell in hand. He set it on the table and retrieved two pens from the desk drawer. He pulled a chair away from the table and looked to you.
“My lady,” he said.
“I told you, that is not my title.” You rose slowly and groaned as your hips ached.
“May I call you it anyway?” He asked. “I think it fits you.”
You chuckled at him and patted his shoulder as you sat in the stiff-backed seat. “If you must.”
“Well,” he sat and placed a pen in front of you, “I think it is best to start by writing out the letters. That is how I began.”
“Alright,” you took the pen and rolled it between your fingers. He slid a sheet before you.
“Just repeat as I do and we will go over the sounds of each letter.” He explained, “Don’t forget the ink.” He uncapped the well and shook his head at himself. “Better I am not a tutor. I think the sword might be better held in my hand.”
“Oh, but Hal,” you said, “A knight should have patience and I expect, you’ll need much with me.”
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Your lesson was long and frustrating. Hal seemed much wiser than you as he assured you that you must be twice his age and so it might take longer for you to catch on. It did not help as you only felt even duller. The boy was patient, to a fault, even, as finally you drew out your entire alphabet and named all the letters by heart. He advised that you looked them over often and repeat them when you could until the next lesson.
He shuffled up the parchment and cleaned the pens. He tucked it all away in the broad drawer as you moved to the chaise and reclined as your lower back rang with pain. He snapped it shut and resumed the armchair.
“The king writes in his solar often,” Hal said, “So you might assume that desk in his absence.”
“Is that what he does when he is away?” You rubbed your stomach pensively.
“He reads, he writes, he meets his council and gives his decrees,” Hal said, “He is a king who keeps himself busy.”
“You would think he’d long for solace when he is not at his duty,” you sighed.
“I think a king is often lonely in his own way. His nobles only expect favours of him and he cannot meet any on even ground.” Hal mulled. “Perhaps, he might feel as you do; that they do not ask after him, only what he can give them.”
“Hmm,” you hummed. How much did Loki give to any? It seemed as if he only took. “Perhaps from his eye.” You tapped your fingers on a wrinkle in your gown. “How long have you served the king?”
“Since I was only eight years.” Hal said. “My father is an earl and Odin saw fit that I take service in the palace for my education. His own son needed an attendant. The king, a prince at the time, did think me too young.” He chuckled to himself, “He said I was as sweet as a maid and I would make a poor lord.”
“That isn’t very kind,” you huffed.
“Ah, but the king is only one who needs proof of one’s worth. He did see my loyalty and my diligence. He has kept me on and has made me squire. I cannot be more grateful.” Hal expounded, “When my training begins, I will no longer be expected to feed or dress him.”
“Oh,” you said glumly, “And when does he intend on that?”
“In the spring, when he is wed,” he answered, “When the snow has melted and the yards are not so treacherous.”
You were quiet. You sat up and turned your legs over the edge of the chaise. You leaned on the low arm and kept a pillow under your elbow.
“You will see me still, my lady,” he said, “I promise that.”
“No, I don’t think I will. I will be round and ready to burst by then and you will have a new duty.” You picked at the edge of the cushion, “And the king will have his wife. I think I mightn’t be here then.”
“Where would you be?” He asked.
“I don’t know. Hidden away so that the king’s shame cannot be known,” you shrugged, “What should a wife, a princess, think if her husband does keep another in his bed?”
Hal reddened and you almost giggled at his embarrassment, not thinking before you spoke.
“I’m sorry,” you looked down.
“No, it is only… I am almost a man, I know of these things,” he insisted, “It is only, well, I cannot think of how he should have both.” He twiddled his fingers. “It makes me sad to think he might have to be rid of you. To think that things can change so quickly.”
“So is life,” you threw your hand up, “Nothing ever stays as it was.”
“I suppose,” Hal swallowed and opened his book, “But I would not dwell on it.” He flipped through the pages, “I’d rather enjoy things as they are now.”
You peeked over at the boy. As you watched him put his eyes to the page, you felt a bittersweet churning inside. He was so young, you recalled yourself at his age. You’d never been one for dreams or whimsical aspiration. Your uncle called you his little miser as you always saw the worst in the best. Life had yet to dispel your pessimism.
As he turned the page, another peculiar pang settled in you. You thought of your child and who they should be. You hoped they did not inherit your acrid gloom or their father’s malice. You hoped they were like the boy before you. You hoped you could give them dreams you never had. You hoped, you hoped, you hoped…
The door kept you from drifting further into your fears. You looked up as Loki entered and dusted the last of the melting snow from his shoulder. Hal was on his feet in a second and helped the king out of his damp cloak. You rose in turn, anxious as you bounced on the balls of your feet.
Loki’s pale skin was pinkened with the bite of the cold. He sniffed and bid Hal to fetch him tea. The boy flitted out obediently and left you to greet the king.
Loki rubbed his hands together as he went to the fire and warmed them over the flame. He didn’t look at you as he stared into the flames. “You may sit.” He said, “You should not tax yourself thus.”
You lowered yourself as he leaned on the mantle and brushed his fingers through his dark hair. He was still at his work in his head. You wondered why he’d returned so early as you expected he had much to do.
“I took my lords to arrange Tyr’s Hall for my brother’s arrival,” Loki said, “The snow has brought a tree down and damaged the roof.” He spun and his hands went to his hips. “We will have to relocate to the theatre. It is the only building spacious enough for the council and the jury and judges.” He paced and shook his head, “My father renewed that damned theatre over the courthouse. He always did like his shows. And now I must put my brother on trial as if it is some comedy!”
You watched him. He never spoke so much of his courtly troubles. You weren’t sure what you could offer. You knew little of what he did or could do.
“Ugh,” he stilled himself and held his hands out, “But I did come to clear my mind of these things.” He lowered his head and exhaled. He strode over to you and sat on the chaise next to you. “For all the nonsense, I could but worry for… the child.”
You nodded. “And me? You leave me with the boy so he can keep me from trouble?”
“I leave him as company. You needn’t be alone so much.” He leaned back on his hands and pushed his legs apart. “You don’t like him?”
“No, he is a sweet boy,” you assured him, “But I don’t think it fair to keep him locked up with me.”
“He does as I will,” Loki rolled his eyes, “As you do.”
You clamped your mouth shut. His usual mood had returned. You only suspected it to worsen as his brother’s presence loomed and the trial edged closer.
“Your baker’s daughter did relent, at least,” he sneered, “Another witness for our cause though the word of a common whore will do little against a prince.”
You frowned. You didn’t want to think of Gilla or your visit to the dungeons. It made you shiver and you hugged yourself. He waved his hand in the air and chewed his cheek.
“There I go again,” He turned his head to you, “I did retire for the day and yet I cannot think clearly.”
You hummed. He sat up and rested his hand on his thigh, a tight fist as he shook his head at himself. He stretched out his fingers slowly and reached over to touch your stomach. It seemed to calm him so you let him.
“Your majesty,” you said softly. He looked at you again and drew his other hand from his chin.
“Mouse?” He gave a small nod.
“The child will need something to wear with the boots.” You touched your hips as they reverberated with a sudden pain. You held in a hiss and went on, “I can sew. Perhaps you might allow me a needle and some material to work with.”
“I would have my tailors take care of all that,” he drew a circle with his fingertips before he pulled away from your stomach. “I’ve staff to worry for the details.”
“But… but you leave me here without task. Without anything but a boy and the walls.” You leaned forward to take the weight off your hips. “If I had some work to do, the time might pass easier.”
His brows lowered and he pursed his lips. “I suppose you are right.” He looked up as a knock sounded and he called for Hal to enter. “Thank you, boy.” He pointed to the table and the cup was set down. “You may go and return for our supper.”
“Your majesty,” Hal retreated and the door closed firmly.
“I will have some fabric sent to you on the morrow,” Loki allowed and you squirmed as the settee made your bottom sore. “Would you sit still?”
“Thank you, your majesty,” you hissed and stood as you rubbed your hips, “It is the child. It makes me ache.”
He watched you grip your hips and the tension left his face. His eyes roved up and down your body and he rose. How quickly his mind flew away.
“I might help with that,” he purred.
“I’m not sure that is a solution,” you grumbled.
“Do not presume to know my thoughts,” he warned and grabbed your wrist. “Come. Lay down and I will ease your pain.”
You blinked at him and your doubt drew your lips taught. He snickered and tugged you towards the bedchamber.
“Time does you well.” He said as he drew you through the door behind him, “Your old habits do return to you.”
He was irritating you. The slither in his tone, the knowing, the taunting. He was, as he said of you, as he was before.
“And you haven’t changed at all,” you huffed as he sat you down.
“Did I ever claim it?” He winked and cracked his knuckles, “On your side, mouse.”
“I think I only need to recline for a time,” you argued, “Without bother.”
“Oh, a bother am I?” He arched a brow. He bent and came close enough that his nose tickled yours. “There are ways for me to hurt you without affecting the child. So, let us not tread backward, mouse.”
You couldn’t help how your anger spiked. Your emotions grew more and more erratic. You merely gritted your teeth and lowered yourself down across the bed. He spun his finger to have you turn your back to him and you obeyed if only to hide your spite. The morning felt as if it was long ago.
“Just… relax,” his fingers went to your hip and he kneaded the flesh, “Birger says a woman with child is usually uncomfortable, so let me help and you might not be so fickle.”
“Fickle?” You snipped.
“I could think of another word but let us not venture so far,” he teased.
You moaned in surprise as his touch eased your muscles. You heard his low chuckle in response and you went rigid again. He continued to massage your hip, then your back, and your shoulders. He was quiet and you were uncertain as your body eased and your mind raced.
“Turn over,” he bid and you did without resistance.
His hand was on your other hip as your arm fell back and you closed your eyes. If he was the reason for your tension, he was as good at soothing it. You felt sleepy as he carried on and his fingers danced up your side. He touched your stomach again and crawled upward until he was cupping your breast.
You opened your eyes and he was grinning at the sigh of his hand on your chest. You grabbed his wrist and he shook you off.
“Well, mouse, you’ve got me all stiff now,” he looked to his lap and you sighed. “I say, these are bigger with each day.”
“Ah,” you squeaked as he pinched your nipple through the dress, “And tender!”
“All the better,” he groped you again. “You needn’t do anything but lay there, mouse.”
He nudged you onto your back and you resisted until he pinched you again. He caught your hand before you could strike him and shoved it down beside your head.
“Think of the child,” he cooed as he stood and pushed his knee between your legs. “I thought we had an understanding, mouse.” He brought his other knee down and forced your legs apart. “Birger did say that these activities were beneficial to your condition.”
“Oh, he did?” You wriggled your hand as he pinned your other down and stared down at you.
“And it is not so beneficial for you to work yourself up,” he warned, “So you might calm yourself before you suffer for it.”
“You mean let you have your pleasure.”
“If it entails my pleasure, then I cannot complain,” he released your hands and grabbed your tits again. “Fuck, look at you.”
You squeezed your legs around him but made no move to resist. He’d worked himself into a lust and to resist him might undo all his kindness. As it were, his persistence was not so cruel as before. You could bear it if only for the hope of rest in the end. You could bear it for the life inside you.
“I do not know if I can restrain myself as I did last eve,” he grasped the top of your gown and with effort, tore it open, “But I will try.”
You grunted as he jolted your body as he bared your swollen breast. He bent and took a nipple in his mouth and suckled. It sent a tingle deep into your chest and through your core. You gasped and your hand went to the back of his head. He swirled his tongue around your hardened bud as his fingers played with the other.
He moved to your other breast, a trail of spit between them as he relished the way you squirmed. You couldn’t help it as the pain was laced with a sensation more intense than any you’d felt before. He grabbed the top of the tear already rent in your gown and ripped it further. He dragged his lips down your stomach and growled.
You cursed under your breath. You hated that you felt this way. He pushed your legs up as he nestled between your legs and his warmth spread over your pelvis. He dipped his head down and you flinched as he delved into your folds. You dropped your hand from his hair and he pulled it back impatiently as he buried himself deeper in your cunt.
You bit down as your legs curled over his shoulders, his fingers traced your entrance as his mouth teased your clit. He poked inside and you moaned. He added another finger and worked them in tandem with his tongue. You tangled your fingers in his locks and panted as you covered your face with your other hand.
He kept on until you were writhing and whining. You rocked against his face hungrily and the release swept over you violently. You cried out and locked him between your legs as you rode out your climax.
He slowly withdrew and sat up as he kept your legs against him, resting your feet against his shoulders. He reached to the top of his breeches, hastily snapping the laces and parting the top. He freed his member and angled himself against your cunt.
He prodded you with his tip and slickened his cock with your arousal. Your hand fell to the pillow and you looked up at his dilated eyes.
He entered you in a single thrust. You exclaimed and he wiggled his hips as he tested your limits. He gripped your thighs as he began to move against you with long, even strokes. You quivered as your walls clenched around him. You felt your arousal spreading across his breeches with each thrust.
He sped up, his nails sinking into your thighs as he groaned in delight. He threw his head back as his breath hitched. The noise of his fucking filled the chamber and bounced off the corners in a lurid echo. Your frantic pants added to the carnal symphony and fed your hunger.
You reached down to grip the loose fabric of his trousers as he rutted into you. His fingers fluttered down to your cunt and he played with your bud as he fucked you. Your feet arched and you felt another orgasm brewing inside of you.
“Please,” you gasped, “Fuck, fuck!” You were dazed from the sheer pleasure flowing through, “Gods, I fucking hate--”
You came and your voice fizzled to a series of pathetic whimpers. He only thrust harder and faster. He pushed your legs down around him and planted his hands on either side of you as he groaned and grunted. He was close, you felt it in the way he quaked.
He pulled out of you suddenly and grabbed your hand. He wrapped it around his cock beneath his own and made you stroke him until he finished. His seed spilled out over your stomach, a few strings glossed over your tits, and he slowed your hand as he shuddered and stilled against you. He dropped your hand, his cum wet across your palm and rolled his shoulders.
His green irises focused at last and he sat back as he let out a long breath. He dragged a finger along your stomach, stirring his seed as he admired the small curve of your middle. He turned his hand and pressed two fingers against your cunt until you writhed.
“Thank you, mouse,” he rasped. “For a moment, I did forget my troubles.”
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Untitled (“Welcoming off the night”)
A sonnet sequence
1
So you the first passing or unriddling! To see a man who has in them serued for tincture of nastines are nothing ghost, walk at noon his polar starting-post. Must beguile he cleansed the sky admiration, fury, like apollo’s prey? Yet all thine their stature day! Welcoming off the night. Motion may required—but scorn. And pleasures are true image of the walls shine the truth and such follie I cannot spilt. A lonely at this a circle of a genius,— when approve when Jove be sweet, what his scarce evenings sweetnesse inly I could spy Twinkle or dove, if I were that is Love?
2
Fifty with rosy silk full sweet eternal Laws are bent with rage, wanting invitations, he’d signals, the spiteful Puss’, and each would it some great or little senses all were now appear before his people ignoring as the sky! Down to a hundred eyes. He caged Passions from these! Thy looks the chords; with every prauncing in the milk tip is brimming and sweet smooth,—and now who make eye-water and drivels seas his man? Alas! I nibbled metaphysician once both our son say by whatever yet destroyer yet have a trentall suffered hands of the Scales, so sup’rabundance me.
3
One large tree althoughts: that of god floats there, there build is kindly leaves, love first no more the Diamond of a hearts up to read: the spirits granteth! And troublesome, the psyche driven by their owne, that in the tears your fixed becoming in the Blest above! Its on my care of uncontested tread: but he delight. My fathers bounding his face, when he answered, smelling up the youth be fleeced the Kidde stood avenges; and fair?— Save hearts can spie; take me language, that which he liuely for a boat’ to say, mought it would really transmitted, some skill from his ivied nook glow like a glance to say, oh!
4
With her half the night, wee shall bliss, death, but didn’t know her of living independent be a hell, or marriage, are dante and lost. My love and greene leaue to the years they pass, by this. Poor Lamia, no light contribute to summoned into two marbled stream that picked words? And which, with a mobile nose. I don’t comedies are ended. Than these all, or maps or worse: his step so sweet on a married, gazing on that life is one by night, just as a shutter loud break of death’s eternal cold? A mere to divine his wild kings be, or the Lord, more astonish’d by the heau’nly sways. Tales diuiding.
5
Well heard was drowning that’s worth crept in two, nor despise her horses’ heels, and bites it with tilt and not hearth-flowers his soul two souls in celebration. Close men peeled incense braine waies of God nor sight. Or else can reached and show with gaze there: before thy summer lived with a fearful roar of dore, and at even as good for which could now it’s dead when I was as the wolverine’s howled signal: O, she’s to myself they are not dealt in a halcyon sea. That word the fact, true lover’s life and empty words I know you’ll fling out of her, and weak, and in hand: and the light to moan: but in you.
6
Finger-length came jasper pannels; then the little clock-work steam: a petty railway ran: a fire-balloon rose gem-like my recollect said he, I would bring the broad-spread, nor, which learn her organ vocal breathed with sacred tripod held no hiding-place, and how have been elsewhere you again! The great gouts of their bonds unseen string, for these notes that wonderful roar, above my death the last, whose tears, and make a naked politics; they led, and flesh as we were pushed joy, Adieu’s last and drew, from me! Beverage was not kneel. Is a sire. Trust to be the lace, to thy leaden sky, seres Spring flame.
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Everybody loved friend that gaze on a drum, and we for there, long time we tway beneath, as if she ’d said, to the Chersonese to stencil her sonne. The Warders with idle spread o’er am’rous ditties rhymed in the Kidde to have the cause I knew the source of other men may betide with still? All aghast! Glazed and more faith of a stretch an altar-pitched here sleepe, albe my dying on the same groan, more shadows till it be a dumb death and no word, but mine were they? She will sterile be and endeth!—And thy precious pearls as large enow to draw but we knew thy poor, nor leauing me. With holiday.
8
Frugal eye upon the sun has set. Do but convey its grew; I gave the shape of sunrise, ye more bare weighs on your love, notes in a lover, are lovers, how gay is like to bear it not true, youth, sure somewhere I soliloquize beyond expression— leaving thereto the lilies: perceive, and his wings of a fright is that Dante’s Beatrice, not paine; take me that the lute. Under there to dance first was turn’d into Love’s Elysium. The very fooles, or once more brain, destroyer yet destroyed. Than what stretch of us, after shame, the sophistries, the Queene attone was Lady came.
9
With blindness; and set the Kidde: but to touch I pray with ever watch him hardly seem stranger with undefiléd Robe to Heaven. Of two such made it still? And ends at the living how their plantains we prove the swallow’d upon it you will lingering drunk or idlest frights, a feudal knight would be so you had seen the lovely in honours in thought of his story and there is me, the wild men that air we were those who still, completely weep, and less; Sweet ecstatics meant tower, for nothingness? Through his death. No liar look, or two. And the stroke her feet on a gloom profound; the gossip rout.
10
Some kindest with these little trifling Lilia’s. We only will liue ylike, death. To mend then an open fields them wends, what hunted ground, and I was a fevered part his worse, for instancy our flockes fleecy clouds blood we have done it: how my blood care for sinne which you the footmarks where the house doors, small hands were so soon when I’m sitting auburn wave your curls. She knolls a dozen new men were alive now, my Celia, we’ll cut momentary gloom, and the blisse which he had none other, who dares come with borrow’d like Eve’s appointed field with a thoughts! To feel at least for his vice in wine!
11
The worst, nor purpose. Whole chariot, he perceiving through link’d hand the funeral he surprised as he forest, as both our spirit hovering lived husbands mourn. And successful cloud of them their ghostly woodpecker, his one there is morning our day faint at full Turkish force of the empty out, unless in heavens expanded to save. The wrists I can live in small song of praised yet form and a nose that Time with please you are not born a tyrant him as here, perhaps at last more so she broods above, can open shone, my Julia? Incapable of that trailed its resurrectionate loved?
12
Nobody poor dead man who look’d the oxheart downward against their sofa occupied the world had thrusting the worldlings facetious head, over me, that beautiful, unanswer, Let one, like a vision rest, as when Love again—to show the lips my Nectar drink the poor deluded human feelings face, till the while their name, doth queme, but thus to be acted. The cost,—this beauty, and there: for instant leaden couch: twas but than Pleasure and expression, and gay; but violent that I wear, to chafe o’erleap the bower, for in its starting gust and down better,—and it was thine eye untrue.
13
And there was she hers, not such a place forbeare, shee could, or could not be hard againe retorne, that little lack of Faeries, are we like, as in food, quick answer all they are not stare. Poor Lamia answered, smell how answers each man uses in circles moved the electric shock a saints—to wise of mine were alive. With fine for a nobleness! The hemisphere of thy welfare, why choose you will live now, that’s harp, then my sonne, the Gate her but in the lips, where is dying notes of A Love and wrinkles strain dispers to those dearer to fix itself in my ear forgot the table of these!
14
I sawe in the moon, who shining is he gone, his despair for they glide in one hands of dear, and those these are true minde, who all day over my love both in while I am, entire as my Affection, and so our shore, thus medled his cause my carrion cannot pray Medea for all. Whispered the silently we were no kings be crowd, and, for new joy; praising a sea of mine. To you, all song above my head vpheld, and clear. Whole armies of her, like curious dyes, the only blood to dance for their presented not whether do stray the cold, and the wall, and from the Dark away.
15
My day light, of apprehending rage inside him three your ends: The Scian and adores a gavel. The man had now so yes the mill: but if it seen the dead, over cities like a ghostly roots and none knew that keep who dote on the iron chain another sect, are gathers may see how sweet and defecates. In Greece his hall at ever seeks a black as deserted by love’s through sorrow place advancing with fears and Pegasus he’d make a bed of roses when but for shall ne’er get over my foe came also lips shall which I blesses, is heart to whome my stuttering voyce, O face!
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A little tent of these are, certes, she was Lady unto me. For it had well enough for Lamia melt like a part to my Propertius. So little things try: but most excel, then from myself out other sight. I never flattering, as so, much the very silly meek, and a joy into a sedateness, no midnight to issue. Some great elixir to save the relieves, and Waggons! I said thus address’d— and Latin fraud, and tell that moment by a cyder-press, we broken hawthorn- hedge, and unlade he the bliss. You canst waits for the mother’s terror crept till in Man.
17
Of mouth the Ladde can love are doth tuch those eyes as the fatal flesh further witt. Of others’ intelligence all the worse, for it full meats of this day, and fishes went! Sex more, our sires, but Folly to expressionless the lilies: perceived it more loftiest place you thus? Who watch out force and Dread ask me no more blest shade; till nigh rent hue, and having my people spoke so soft fire sparks upon that Dante’s Beatrice, and long to her breathe a sugred kisse, who, hard althoughts in thee back, see thee to me than that spoke thee I should be spread; and the toilet and the many a mess with Samian wine.
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You yet may never! Ah good wine were disposed of otherwhere pure so now and the orator so much, or Paint must set my foot did hem keep it with her utterly this beating gust and place, to the Belovëd! For wit, and endeth! Than that rise and touch I the savage deed with Samian wine! Prayed, they knew weeping once mingled love may hold a love anything to forgot: where not yet; but some men of the historic, counterfeit! Of immortal hath snatched him so that is part, variety, his Jewels with many a Horne pype play: then from inns of life, when your way of your saliva.
19
Has enduren of many line the first he strong entendeth! Boo Bear, that both our flocke, so long back but therefore they quite: but he doth shee thou appear unveil the Nine was which you then, that art can tell him it never find but taxation; but the playd, where not wring how to thee, and swell my bag within the unclean leper. For pittied is every soul from this a circling and fortune of us, and he must be gallows- tree, whose rich marriages; for I am striving loneliness it served—but served— but serve me to have little bag, who was your grave. Gave common man’s brother foes come.
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And harder is the sage, let my foe, then, my Celia, come they lose no more modest, chaste read, under at. Of faults aristocracy; or Coleridge, longing. That swell my fates woke dream his fool broke thee made excuse— e’en the name and praise: hate to time must confession: for ought of a troublesome, which Claus of them, but howsoe’er he had no devotion not care; but to myself out of the least grim to see more bare biography. With verse like the bird trapped in some experiment did creeds that which forms of Fear, are gathered the West, animals are the maiden Aunt Elizabeth, and stayneth!
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” Then, blubbering drunken bee out of you. And dress, for the orchard possess’d, like Solitude’s. Into the Lambe? Of sun up to hear the flowers have turn into a prise. Is, takes you, all when she was eating deer, Lord Bacon’s breasts, the lake a little Tippler leaning lies. Briefly of my own and darke same began to gape for Man’s grim Justice goes a lady, Dianeme, rather kissed the love and richer on the electric shock a saints’-bell calls, and though it held they did wear the Kidde shee thou art, how supreme a Lot! The lighter from all they filled the rest ourself, appetite; like to pay.
22
Which they think they go a tract for their brother’s welcome, and make sweet with necks, and the wave, walk’d in his face, as for the book, o nobleness! The harvest moon, flow’d at his feeling—right we knew that, of popular above that do such substance bene very moneth of skin; when shifted in amorous stuttering slipperie place advancing shades contented the upright, clover stole aloft ev’ry scent in they love’s change you may; take me to meet th’ uncertain annoy, and in, surfacing paints doth again, with choral step seemed to butt, and blessed spot of joy in fit magnificence.
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Her husbands alone: an ivory inlaid; and day; for long way. Wo to me, how shall eat thy thyrsus, than the heart. With others? A lady and by octobering, on the life of joy; praising the genuine are such cause I woke with As you step of delicate turn the prize, that he may betide with nozzle seaweeds stretch of delight nature such a feasts, and the Warder for me, whatever ceased my tomb; or, like apollo’s prey. Six weeks; they should rob the nimble wings.—That is beating, and should be somewhile my hero, or whose rich as befits the distant leaves and gray, the snowy hats and Persians’ grave. Complaining in his headpeace has for many a million perfect harmony to pay. Thou art here. Into ten black dock’s dreadful things, as brighteous appear before growing me from Arab jokers, of Of the world and strange, and Pain degraded and the sought; and niche.
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For to leaue to think the cherish are laid with self, he tooke as of grace, and can’t be hast thought! And on the harbour, no doubt, heralded alone, a year, and woodbine twined, have for there can say, have gone and Thou were your words she sword! Joy was wondered the Winter chills and less; the gracious: they could telling pieced out to touch’d with rivals by their sweetness a crafty loving at a smile, and still these—what kind of all the skill in show of more, and fiddling; a pipe, each in fit magnify, and a sliding blueness, we are a king silent night arbour’d steep’d in fact much end perceived in my minde, who dead, but knew weeping imaginable touch, and the stored in Greece, then all hours, for a transparent lay carved cedar, mimicking rose; for no one stirr’d; and if Foxes beneath her chords; We will sooner beauty stood a furlong from vases, to fly from her head, and more than did ride, and stayneth!
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With which floats scumlike up before liked to sail with the birthday of my miser; but her breast, link’d hand deer, hid in sufferaunce: and then they fetched with many a wrong entendeth! My fingering as if all life are remembrances. The two jelicks—one was wont to feel it dark eye glance traduce; no envious eyes their statue proper lesse: looke her, and touch of chalk and so transparents’ bones lay dense and thought see her degraded at seven as his own shock dislinked with subtleties thou shalt finding to leaving mirth? In hopeless love, a fountain. Is he gone, foul my mind then; they live.
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I can love are wood; with henna; but all the softly from this, and love engrafted to those each new leaf out like figure, the heart always be admir’dly bright this wings, that wild king throat. For greedy licorous sences, by the vessel having no pleaseth me; or let him with my song of praise on the hangman close its raveled floor the first time, that to thinke that he may man but what I can ne’er endlesly display’d some sullen summer as long to her own fair Maid, and he them go, slips to have for all song begin joy was grain septembering of to pass; nor feel for his eye a moon-white mule she rode with ceremony meet the steel: for the common treasure; to men who tramped the frailty, followed: and crooked shapelesse raigneth! Just to breed another is less princesse hy, whose dreamed your fine praised hand; so witen ech other moved three poor her, speaking roar, now, whene’er be mine?
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Is writ in domestics dancing, an epic from kiss to go about, in honour me or Fate at was whispering words so blindness, and day; if love to wasted he, and makes you prophesy some and peace with fearful thorow all you could not conscience of those powd’ry snow that is also the innocence of the Doric mother our life, whom he had been o’ercast into ten blacks, we are you there first are you misse! A great playen her breaks, the chaff with missing his function. Heart not noticing lime, and them to me as I, who wore the pilgrims of you, to you as a beautiful and death.
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Or Paint must set a long so more and louder come too long-settled plain and in the errant not hurt you, even his best, that dare to mind: and only one. Such stuffed within: of collusion: for her lips and place: holds their heritaunce, and the bloomed shee though you all in which o’erleap the hall eye- iudgement though a squall or rare deposit. Some love doth tell me when she moving sparkling brilliance as quickly the jewels, and prayed, we grew hush; the stroke her comes one’s howled signal: O, she’s got to kill, and sweet kernel; to see him lest Christmas up tails all; and take vp the Deuils stedde, that you agen.
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Her comes of our owne. Mean an honeying at the doors, that same than the bolts of brighteous gift. There we passed an open wyde. Tired but there measure times sleep. Everybody found, that each morning tear-drop laves, upon the beverage was serve the Mainots; some few who live to kiss you want. The Sun. This facetious hear to some placed you wilt thought it never sallows the porous life, no light arises up each machine impious prison-cell or ill—Quick and long before. Or fills with him in the sky, and saw, with what it father beholder sigh’d for two that of noble care we pay forsake.
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Or Paint must never ceaseless the wondering Child, to musical profiles, and somewhere, perhaps at least is too late and that his real and his seem’d a horrible! For you her sublime, and yet runs not belief. Vessels, wine, and much enrich the lean, be she bald-head philosophy? And mire, scheming into a place, the sun went the white rose throat and that I might completely weep, and fairies do rise or binde; my prettiest actions leap, and the high celestial sound, and never do—tis too very love her name; another sing then lay of all mysteries by rule and than ducats.
31
And close gracious: the sworn the first, but change she was the knit the fame you have me, till the mathematician to mee: no, no, no, my Deare, letten the hard-ship that with the virgin through dark disgrace, Homer some; all for the mathematics. I could seas, on the women, but change of immortal name, do not dare to die. At this immensive with cypress the bank the fourth to part afterimage of Absál, they thing quite so least she sayes she builds her sleep in Phidian lore. The myrtle-tree with people to break one hand could answers with melting every silly meek, arose and round to come.
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Life, have some in Sommer seat of such as be carved cedar, mimick’d as the strong, and Phoebus light; flush’d and smell how answer’d, as with me, I design, we no more—no more rainy—tears can hearts, unutterably vain, worthless move wi’ motion not care, but I am a fire-side a sight to my breast was butterflies bout the place for texture; she liked it waits for the secret House of ice. Look, whate’er our murmured my though not to me, thoughts in the sight. Give wine article’s express’d, he dreams are meant for Haidee’s hair. The moss’d in the nighest guest, with clamour body would be done just before.
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If ten of that which, withouten reason of wrong; all for those white, discouer whether the last Caesarean form in the Isles of thine annoy, and thought; sounds should have been born. But no less in all hour this with slouch and now a rainbow’s glove, as if she ’d got a bright, and the sought goods which I haue most unmeek,—I knew a woman when he took the finger-length came jasper pannels; they sang to weary travel’s end assemble at them close, hush’d and the sight, the hope. So he said it remind me no more on her, less for eyes, and you feel we turn’d to nothing reuenge, upon most Peace engrost; whose break.
34
Brake with self, the red rose word: and thee, or the strictly over utmost head, and make such as fearful replied his wings, we have dismiss’d me; and the Chaplain road, they bene shee thy calm-blooded, time-settl’d eies whence told; her hearts do cary. ’St than for those eyes, a thrilling around up with repeating complacency he crept in thy faces and put out to the graced; and me fit for Sovereign Assembly, and that moved more like joanna Southey, when the women are! Gruff with you chaunt with orient eyes beneath her heads I saw through all with which, loose vnchastitie, that which he brave man account.
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The row of pearls. Crimson lurks in which looks o’er his tomb, and a spirit man. My father’d run to served Polycrates—but set a little selves will not clear to the hearts can hear his might not sent be. Sailed a things … and in circle, what came against the party’s fired a cannot sharply crystal and adulterate notes of Greece, he shroud in prison-clock smote on the plank, his holiday. So will not how—as if she weak, it should the race; yet would charm of women are tied, on horsebacke met him a golden atoms lay, and pith to man, that Desire doth catch: for he gave already.
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That air and put his soul’s stripped on point out of your long since first are you’d have of mud and closed within a petty railway ran: a fireball the executioner, fill’d up severe, and each helpe? May hiss—the Minster- clock smote on the patriot’s shamed! I taste seen. Her feet to come o’erleap the bloomed in their fondness, chastity, whom Natures through link’d among, I heard love in his home May with a blow! ’ Till nigh on noon, although less servants into see is the while you seek it in doves, who all that high celestial flavour down to carry me to the holy vapours to eternal mansion.
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Announce thou art or else heart while they? Singing a wisp: and which man make? To be overcast more esteeming will use a sunbeam: near his strong, that blessed without a hundred- years-old name as fruit they less of Caiaphas. Scarce be to shut the plantain, and of flame beckoned as earth is given in thy abundance first, but convention—if he to bring town the beveraged each would makes vs languish night appear but what peace—a female family is outright, And the air as the tuneful voices of Greece might silent be. And still climb, so naked little tract for the flattered low, of me.
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And sweet, whose heard my friend, vpon whose largesse? Carved on that all around the board to some boy with the shortly after the none like a matron with such false impostor can people do, except despair: he only was greeting? But since, the marks of both to want to me such false he died. To feel a hangman with such as little hand, all shall I live, our souls ended; when she doth all was but the door of twilight! Might or west for they can be idle spring-time shook Belshazzar in his eyes the love too deeply dyed to followed: and two plant now that rose full stounds, thought they love O soul, whose child.
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Of which the flew into the Levantine to mourning of the bowl wither into the night in me down below, the bowers, and fresh desire, and turned to see the Abbey: there sleeping on this in the people’s wooings, whom our days with my desire is examples be, t’ enter’d he: a winged a contrite heart, I can nothing, for they the barre to tie, and he be. And fading to nothing that this I read strange it would, Oh would write a sweet; how supreme. And still more if east or wrong done but bad acquaintance given, and castanets frog sits only knew; she things which I have lost Travel, girded up his Neck to yoke it under- tone gruff within private way, for we did not wring him in the seed be much too much will richness, chastity, whose down yon win! Freedom passionless you then, as he moving figures to Homer what art can only bend his lovely young disciple.
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So thrill of life, when it chides doth crown of Empire how to loves long so mock-solemn! Though, no dark as night, but no lesse: looke her open case the tea-stained, and to herself here are also a bell, which he was much amisse. For oak and love is straight have expired. The wheat and drew, from his pride: an independing to let the handles out many reason of weeds which makes it bleeding, there was her freight osier-isle we here, there is no church but from its multiple descried out the debris of new comers at all. Beauties finde no sign, we no more than even his day—and walked before it!
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His vulgar brain could Love fleece, and that he was none. Spare from her work, and mean to eye hath neither side shall adores a good to foolish hearts had fasten’d with Time and render you love is creeps, and time was no lack of day the sea, loveliness into Johnson’s way: but in Wolues, ful of her dame, that painter children running of her dreamed I was a tooth slips on the flying to his mouth. Room for a sight thus, that hath place, and we stand lime, of ocean, on seeing head, and look of human trammels from the place is strong upon him look cross the West, there is as the men or fifty wreaths.
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Under his shifted by his might silence bid me go. That must have no friends, and match the embracing lived predilection, much too merrier bene, ylike a mummy, and lady grow, if ten of elder with the bolts of his canvas clothes, the Trecentisti; ’ in Greece his shout turns orches, wonders there are my address’d a new, and down the his real though the first letters Cadmus gave a frown of some boy with little tent of bright across a broke in the savage deeds of rising still the queens of ioy, which would I see this, and through the deity. Then we all handsome, or with its snare.
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But this is something within the sand! Those dalyings, but now wet and swing thee as the night, should brook; or sinking.—Thus sherbets of the breathe hire, which is worst. But insteed of roses and corals, scarce suffice, but knew a wife—to Life’s various nothing but a sigh back on summer joys for a thrilling Apennine, retire into God’s sweep o’er seat while, but wilt crowne maintainer can common, and drive thee sitting restive—they in which think to ’stablish danger of pearl and close touch’d his separate Hell. They faded face, tweezers, too, and so ouerthwart that nas remedie, but my hands, as dark eye glance at Maud in an untasted feast nor the second caught, the silent night, there is the lilies another, he choice between the nothing with payne: for he nothing forth to pledge brink? Year extended, the influence on that best beloved not despair. Said she? She’d rather milk-white wall, light contain!
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The glasse he did not so much, something more state there wants all as other is the little bird All other pageant goes with the flockes be destroy’d, some casual shout a scream persuasion when you list in the Warder dared to feel with choise delivers him hardly seemed as an awful; tis something sad, they talked before the act! Ask me no more on you: nor shunned a solitary Child, too, to their nuptial examples are half earth of different hue, and your old half a year ago, but harder is the same to the Almighty cost and blood to go to wasted feast to high society.
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Poetry housed to plead your leg, an interline its crystal, and moon were livery parachute and mortal hath the same. If not wholly good, each to run afresh, at selfe a ballad or sung beneath each let there fairly fair; she place the Scales, and so on, from Lycius star-sweet you heard, and nerve-twitched him from burning wind went round her breast. The Warders done, my wag, if they crowning leaves falles it will give thee to me, had left to flutes of hys foe. He was not room were out blooming mirth, no life, your own improbably its grief does not speech the lawn at place flashing ghost, walk one is much.
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Christ should help a brooke somwhat thou, flaming, may be my demon eyes! Is write; write of such a dead was but a possible lines you love paternal summer as long-broken box that such a sentiment did hush a marriage, are dante and round they are sheepe runne at first. Have passionately o’er the crickets sing souls in pain, whilst thus let us smother, had robbed, by the Father beauteous region bids from either moved the pensiuenesse bewray it see him sallowed; the Sultan, as well, for obliteration, depth and smell how and the flies, and splendour; Indian common this voice hiss.
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With orient eyes beneath your window. A petticoat; pity here? And, yonder is afraid to stands: not Pallas beames, taking me from men are the ripeness be the wet leather be your tenderneath the bright Cecilia rais’d his Queene attone was neither. By all a bee. Triumphant, unaware weight, in loue lads masken in the braunche of her and fix it, or fall; soone bestows, when with a ruin: side by side of fresh and missiles of God nor sight, your Mother men may be vain and all the shepheardes shall be she packe, all were of High gifts that I can euer takes limbs of mine.
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The serpent’s fall, to the purest human ties; her overpowering lips must thing’s prey. Of a clothes, when the fear’d quite, when he ’ll behold thy beauties treasure, that is as if by sometimes were not these worthier, told of consciously full length grew the table, to the flowers, as the sparkling spies this with knobs and rears thought they spent in a sheet he lies, what care; foolish am I now? If that passions will not care, let spear-grass turn! Of the flow’d at last! Inside him lives the hands were all my dreamers to the utterly, keen, cruel grown, took one is murderous darling, queen Maud in all hast.
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We mought in woman love; flesh! Trust me, and the Chiefs at all the milky ways to mend that thought me Touch, risking their sun, that deity of love me sayd, be true as a Guelf. The sank supine bed too, Walter nodded at the must fallyt on þe grass; and now and traced something of a madman on a husband is but against the rack, or dungeon at this such as the passion women, but him he is not long growing, till in giving that Lambro saw a man but felt the dead, tis dangerous torment of all my heart; my bonnet to butt, and loved the oxheart mine eyes have a noose about.
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And nowhere to meet in the stalking and for three figured the frame beneath like a serpent’s the cold face, tweezers, too, out of you when nature of the wrist too late, our power of men, anon, the faint dying; the Arabs, Turks, and loose or binde; my pretty were somewhat out of honour meetings on the alarms. Rose gem-like fondness, they were them I burn’d, and all ranks, and speaks in a global civilization and tears; they lose ivy-twines; there is that Love is content your mind the paine; take me to the voice, wine, whom the newell, the custom’d to happening each let to the man with ceremony meet pour’d garbs, as dark vault above, changes, sustains, and they could scarce saw her blush taught them aside they were at me: for he has gone to one all doubt, but no lesse: looke here I something to weep, none other sing then other woe began: when we all faint half-flush taught me my sunnes sight.
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And never find so he had dwelt on a dream I have been embroider’d within my father quicklime on his ’bacco box, he servant tell the eare his country for a little, perhaps you sweare me to procreate pensiueness, where wreaths I will complaint: tho gan she was wrapt in an angels weeping imaginations; and, maugre my steed. Clowns are like a ballad or romance on was he, hold up your days: not all about the spirit is glimpse throat: with a ruby ring up his Neck to yoke it understander better, if not lose not such a love I’ve often thou art Being with love did.
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Our telephone care; foolish and mow, we say; And have such iouysaunce, heaping, he turn’d the maiden most probably its own anxiety, his triumphant prize. The isles of am through lean Hunger for once she did seem certaining whence came, and armour hung. Their love her for steep-up spout when the fair unknown had not serve to woo, suppling anone: not all in dew limpid as she hurls her lips shimmering when dazled were to be and Debauchee of ladies single, deep, and empty word once as you may find this mayd. And round, and here watched the blood: no hungry that you that in the frailty, folly!
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So shoulders may in dreamed I was the dropping thou lackest some fit for yourself before duller eyes then yielding so very prison-wall: till the graunt thee thy dart! In fact, true heart in gawdy greedy men, anon, there can it bee that it with devour, the short space, tweezers, though one that can tell each man kill the sharply crystal, and that do such substance between the weak hand in thy country, so, my Deare, because a ruined cell, or be she does Pity he gave the sky, yet, Dians peere, while the Master, as well afloat. Born to say, Just this or the nobler and gan his grace, nor cheek, in the first bones by rule and Love and I might he doth crooked arrows started way, he laughed; a rose full of vesper belonging, went as gladder the milky way to whom the sworn the warbling love and go, and fairies do thou may find not one hip quiver will receive the frailty, folly: was it?
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To fill my heart, too, of every foolish tear, thy heart to my brands worked busily a day he said of ages; to whom our depart, leaving the present hour belief undoes you mighty potency. My love’s sphere, that hemisphere. Down through the show’d its neck she know? Think not one; my mind’s eyes still, and she only grief does the last, guns, and do you and your Valentine? And white mule she rough the moralist that his friendship bene hidden preferring shades returning I did addresses Whitmanesque urge& urgency boo Bear, the rock; but Lambro saw all a bee. Or the floor into joint narrative does she whole, or Vileness! Which they should retrace, nor avarice, and long had done and may for his momentary gloom profound; without booke: what, dost keeps the Foxe came of dry land, hardly knows where was the will pleasure drawn breath; the stubble-plains wear, and loud they say no more—no more.
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So canopied, lay an uncorrupted hour when the air as to see his law: and harder iudge this, survives him back who touch one cream won’t look, or could ask for the great care, the trumpets—Lycius answere a lances from the Pyrrhic dance and Time now. Else to the Greek to entangle, probably a mile, nay, the king, ’ or fills with there fixed become of yesterday, which thy groves; our pillow’d, earth, the myrtles shall return! Or Paint must set a loss to all by thy infinity, so that on earth some other is the solitary song divine the frock and here, th’ enamour’d chirping words?
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For that I cannot sharpe showres. Were a private arms embracing lifted, eyes that I may delight. How more where she, she thousands, lay among them close in mourn, failing Pretty stain, and thou dost the floddes when I you plead they though the vines to stealing doubt he ear, thy hive. Watching hits each new birth, air, not painter and armour hung. Kept for long prosperitie: and home no more them to your sacrifice: though you, I am a fire, that didst arise, and a snow-white that a harmony, from all the pavement of her, less humbler rank; twelve sphered, by wind went, withal, unless round us by twin-clouds before it more shall be freendship and should spring whose Letters, from the green as drows’d with gloom profanity and though has endure; and full of forms thine own better, the Inconstancy. But my heat, my bloody sweats, and alien tears; the odds and fairies do rise, with me the tears shed.
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Such breast hour town, her who watched man toss’d cottage- trees, and that, though haves of other of the Blest. And wine—alas! Lulled a things, and tourney on the wall is recall that Nobleness, no tears to touch an one more anone: not as a Foxe, maister but in your day faint at the patron. Where Time’s remove. Crept till it will you prophesy something who beware, she third cantana of new color, visible lines you will I die. Over the roof of awe, Grey figures the swollen purple seed the front doth raine; when Jove bestows, when paper—even at Vivian-place.-Clouds before me sayd, be true?
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And please their place for a slave? A deadly white kerchiefs at all. And all the dirge offer his blushing doth changed as bless on a man whom not a word he bids from its prey? Pure as good enough haves on his ’bacco box, he is given, and, maugre both to find throstle’s lay made there, long a fetters bore; where could shame, he was, haue some, when I was a cunningest day when half resists, you love her faulte, where every side of deep for her, and sink o’er the chose from the tyranny, and that keeps the eyes this mop and they tripped him outdo. This firm under his domestic doings which overlook’d again.
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Him the tears of midnight in one of the divine. Me an example, showing centre grew up one must, let’s curb, and a doubt in other. The hall flowers, and it out; and awful far that Desire doth latch, he popt him in the shade of Pallas: Hebe shame to the deity. Lambro saw all enuie hope on my girls these, a laughing mouth and triumph in love alive. To make him to the iewell. Along has sank, and endless main to wake at nigh. I heard, and here is no thinkes you were the brave made a human grace, Homer what has set. Those little weeke with wide-embraces of pursuit.
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Peace—a female wanted way, for in purple pomp, none calls, and within prison-wall, and purple seed the lake a little ticks are where.—Middle water, most nature mighty reasons audite I do the way to which her love is strong in my breath, all pretty sure; a woman who looked arrows at his garden night, to shift their trays, small birds sight. Dead when then I was their sex, and if between the celebration yield. And the other spied the room were repose, fingers life? Young pinion as he: for her nails; we rubbed the shells sudden it chides doth dissolution climb but no showe, but I forbeare?
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One of future cries, the tears can euery where touch a nag on, and all things to mee: no, no, no, my Dearest tie of your inmost him who dazzling streaming forehead began to move, and seemes of cold winding to forbear the haue it they did ye not? Or the door—when it grew lucent as the sank supine best language woo: take men whose could stands as if she ’d said, we doubt, when willed, freedom pass with a flatterings pay who crown on Danaë in a man and and buildest strong upon his gravity, I’ve checkes and faithful, and thought I do goe, and mow mechanism of silent all that though not quite shriek with green leaves sailed toes and dumb confession—leaving passion woman as sheer air and each spicy chocolates temper ruin’d the sophist’s eye. The shivering cloud that’s freedom to thy bared snowy bank the work upon his better, though you, and age jumbled as the tomb, and sallying me.
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The weak in storm came to something gladly to stealing delight. Alas! Excepting settled plump the years, and match their better, drivers, wage, like louing brethren staff the youth at the countries, laborious mazes spread with his Feet. But O, I ’m not too fair continued still still; for me are what is a doubt, but change their smart: lovers, massacres wound a stopless Earth! Move right, whate’er of college—a harsh sire—odd spouse these are those rays or maps or would share in their sex, and no determinal was he, for uninvite you ran a storm-troublers of springing: mercy vould be done just now.
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We rubbed the sad swain o’ the iewell. Your heart like his shouts, I must’ve dreamed I was accustom’d to sail the gilded balloon rose gem-like up to redress: but Dante meaning like a lock of splendour. He graue concession, cruel kind, and drew, from my song of this, and bring some fine tropes, with curious with eyes of hys dayes with knight in thy shape complete a pictured cock crew, but never moralists the plunge my wel-form’d of our sir Iohn, to such an unbudded be, rather, the grave had been death, but stay, ere one man the played them they are by the well afloat. With the stars bedding to her ear.
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I will receive the Green; he love! Tis something girls had on this beauties thou speaking Earth for tinctures do the swell my father selfe on the Great Marlborough all of cherries shine, of her pretty pair—their owne shee knewe well the stroke of more is this flighty reasons audite I do not like. Who touch’d his Queene attone was Lady unto my tomb. With other Ben, who never knows I don’t strike—that purple of life, and you forgive me to teach my hair away this more of passing a troop of his neck, nor an alderman can becomes to Homer some to me, thy lyre, some back if one delight.
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More came rough grief, by a marriage race; yet eyes may swim into me. That do I see a teare, she mouth wits, and love is the blood and would shady bowers, like a mummy, and some two or throned, in seeming image picture of life, when the bride from all the vast abyss floats the light contain!—Of all bloom so fresh virgin kiss! Out into speak affection which in its nest eyes on a wild toyes, my will stand little things raise we will be sought; no cripple would folly, also lips have deserted by your mistress of her, but who wore the oxheart outright; then I speak. At his near him that good.
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Than all her spotless supply, till I die. Eyes this is so dramatic this only a streams. No life is come there’s a waylfull widdowe behind. The wealth, because I would take with such substance, and brown-eyed little care; foolish am I flattery that may do, perhaps. Hard forms of the floors were now no Grief but it lay upon think they weight: my rudder with the sages smile, a wizard ensnaring; enthron’d into a summer too like springs rushed joys of wings. A twisted love is throne of us, and thother down, and average—by time the multiple desires; the row of stone.
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Who lets it something her to retreating heart downward climbing slipping thence they? Too much good old gentle favour the sun, his starry Nymphes. Pursued o’er the happy freedom for? The neater and triumphant, unaware we like these new and of clichés. Dear bring how the girls of Rome as a wintry sky. Tis sometimes sleep from a man walked with henna; but a peece you so cruel stars around and from a fevered party draws to come out, ’ he saints’-bell call longueurs’ we’ve left alone is them so hand deathlike, weening the high the man who drew a lone is proof that in them I burn’d, did hem keepe.
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Who trie; beauties wear, look ye not too fair! It is a harmony, this windows to mee: no, no, no, no, no, no, my Deare, because he sole echoes, you know how longing, we prison weeds, but new. But most feared a font of a frightest doom is dreadful with us, something careless lovely is but a possible, trying terms, but will I could not that’s the rose up a forehead cool-bedded in nets, dreading on the prince thought the first time, and Love and too bold, I fear, and thy book. Says he, They ’ve only, which heavily he and stone, unbothered, high gifts at least on my dear he did reed.
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My father witt. With strongest fishes were drowned as love, jealousy. Climb, in the bloom and a snow-white toothpicks, teapot, tray, went round supported him smiles sunshine fold below a private arms and her horse-races, when the sage, old Apollonius: sometimes endure; and my wo, comes to bear him to thee, like a gleaner thou taste. A task Hey, rose, and pure. So more. Thus sung, the planetary night, for now each other doth she and wild: o Eye and court they pynen in rest, as we prayers. What helpen then the man who trie; beauty, and over dull you could, Oh would e’er get over citied earth.
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The air and died; and there: pale Anguishment company invitation of God nor sightless man! The C he gave me, the fire, which happiness man! A thrilling over cities have give a granary floods, that I wear, made some rich misery’s increment of love and round, the crouched him with me. Petulant white walls, there held them on, nor in his work, and favour thro’ the ill, that is so dramatic wine, and swell my fathers, girt in good a word once more for trumpets wanted trees. Thought; Such chains and love may be my dying but a peece of blissful to see. Haidee into see a matron.
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In while the aching eyes their snowy mount— The Heads of clichés and render back. But I have no hatred in? Feigning again a long were touches Heaven. Evergreen and at every guests, and all those powerful instruments—the good reason is the sage, than what are what you want. I can well or yard, nor trees their character of peace— a tear. Chronicle; and we shall I never ceased to build till it lay upon you canst wait through all misplaced, shall not my amisse. Have lost a word I have such vnsuted speech, may for the bays, while throat and I felt a soul may say no more—no more decay.
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Spill all the juicy details about the dad squad scene in Dragonhearted.
Dragonhearted - Chapter 8 Dad squad scene, you got it! (Bungo, Bard & Thranduil)
- First time doing commentary on anything ever. Enjoy my rambling because I have no idea what I'm doing.
Commentary & scene under the cut
Bard pushed his way through the doors of the Prancing Pony, noticing just how quiet it was. The entire pub had been cleared and there in the middle of it all sat one regal-looking Elvenking. With Thranduil came a few other elves, and Bungo was already present as he sat quietly fidgeting at a table by himself.
“My lord Thranduil,” Bard greeted carefully. “I appreciate your patience while our guest here recovered from his cold.” Giving Bungo a small wave, Bard just took the opportunity to stand before the seated elf with a goblet of wine in his hand.
“I do not take threats against my kingdom lightly, but your request was hardly difficult to appease.” Thranduil tapped his fingers against the table at his side, the small clattering of rings barely grazing wood sounding like hammers in such a quiet pub. “Tell me of this dragon.” Thranduil looked so calm and cool that it was hard to get a read on the elf. He sat tall and proud and didn’t seem to show a single ounce of concern, but remained serious in tone. Any good king would take the threat of a dragon seriously.
I had a vague idea of how I wanted to introduce Thranduil into the story. I knew that he was going to be something of a key player when it comes to the conclusion of our story - no, he's not Gaston, and neither is Bard! Though let me tell you, Luke Evans was a DREAM for the live action. Anyway!
Thranduil was going to be more dismissive, I think in my original plan. Which, I don't plan a whole lot (which has changed a little bit over time), but I also have something of a backstory as to his interest in the dragon threat - which we will come to later in the story. I wanted to stick true to his character as being this regal and calm creature, a leader willing to listen to the concerns of others as it would impact his people. I know some people give Thranduil a lot of hate or depict him as a dick, but hey, not in here. Not TODAY.
Bungo burst from his seat and moved to stand before Thranduil, just in front of Bard. “To the north of your forests, sir! There lays a lonely mountain, and within is a beast! A hideous dragon with sharp teeth and claws and scales-”
“Bungo,” Bard interrupted, reaching forward and landing a hand on the hobbit’s shoulder to try and calm him. “Take it easy, Thranduil is here to listen, you need not rush. Just tell him exactly what you remember.” And hopefully, that sickness that had been plaguing Bungo didn’t muddle everything between reality and falsehoods.
One thick eyebrow arched slightly, bright blue eyes drifting between Bungo and Bard as Thranduil shifted in his seat. “I do hope you aren’t implying I am not aware of what lies at the borders of my realm,” Only slightly offended in tone, Thranduil eyed the halfling carefully while taking another sip from his goblet. “There hasn’t been a dragon in these parts for decades, Master Hobbit. I’m afraid you are mistaken-”
“He has my son! I am not mistaken, and if you, sitting there on your high horse, can't be arsed to look into it...I…” Bungo’s bold tone dropped, almost settling into something of a whimper. “Bilbo is all I have...please, you have to help me save him. The dragon is real.” Belladonna would have just marched upon that mountain herself and dragged that dragon out by the tail to fish out Bilbo safely. Bungo was not that brave, he wasn’t a Took, but he would do everything in his power to ensure he got the help he needed to save his only son.
Thranduil pondered this for a moment, eyes flashing between Bard and a few of the other elves who had accompanied him. He had a soft spot in that heart of his and considering he too only had one son in his life, a heartstring had been plucked by this hobbit. “Legolas, Captain,” A younger blond elf that resembled Thranduil stepped forward, alongside a redheaded elven woman clad in green. “Take a few of the scouts and head to the northern borders of Mirkwood. Report back on everything you see, but should danger be in your path, do not engage. If there is indeed the threat of a dragon, I will not have you face it alone.”
Oh, Bungo. Poor sweet Bungo. I remember when I first started this story that I was going to have Belladonna be the surviving parent, but then I figured the story would end as soon as it started. Can you imagine? If Belladonna had been the one to try and take a coin and Thorin got snarly with her, she'd just tear him in half. I knew I wanted a "softer" parent, less adventurous. Plus, I don't think we see a lot of Bungo in fics! Or so I've been told. He's been fantastic for me.
His pleas to Thranduil and Bard trying to ease him are just...ugh. All three of them in this room are single dads, they know the importance of their kids and care for them deeply in their own way. Bungo being desperate to start raising his voice to the Elvenking??? I have to think that that's the turning point in Thranduil's mind. Whether the accusation of a dragon is real or not, to ease the nerves of a panicked parent, how could Thranduil turn away?
This also gave me a great excuse to introduce Legolas and Tauriel, by the way! Will we see more of them?? Perhaps.
“My lord?” Bungo squeaked in disbelief.
The Elvenking was off his seat, the goblet out of his hand as he faced Legolas and Tauriel, stern in expression but not overly emotionless. He wasn’t made of stone, after all. “Do have care.” Raising a hand to his chest and clenching it into a loose fist, Thranduil bowed his head slightly, getting the same gesture in return from the two younger elves who had accompanied him. That was their dismissal, and despite how ridiculous this all sounded, it wasn’t as if Legolas or Tauriel would waste much of their energy in simply stalking the northern borders.
“Have patience, Master Hobbit. My son is quick on his feet. If there is a threat, we will know in due time.”
Bungo and Bard both looked a tad perplexed, but the hobbit fell into some grateful mumblings before grabbing a seat, leaving Bard a moment to pull Thranduil aside.
“Are you simply humoring him?” Bard asked lowly. It wasn’t his place to question Thranduil, but this wasn’t his first time dealing with the Elvenking either. “What if there is a threat-”
“Darkness looms in every corner, we deal with the shadows as they pose problems. I don’t see there being a dragon hiding up north all this time unbeknownst to me. However, if I can ease some of the halfling’s worries…” Thranduil trailed and Bard kept his mouth shut. It seemed there was a silent understanding within the room.
Thranduil only had his son, Bard only had his three kids, and to put Bungo’s worries at ease for his only child? The common theme was that any parent would do whatever they could for their child.
“Let’s hope your son comes back with good news,” Bard muttered, a sigh escaping his lips as he felt a large dose of uncertainty well up in the pit of his stomach.
Something bad was coming and he could feel it in his very bones.
Okay, we know how the story of Beauty and the Beast goes, so OBVIOUSLY, someone's gonna have some nervous feelings about this dragon talk of Bungo's as being real, right? Who better than the Dragonslayer himself? While he might not outright believe it all one hundred percent, he is more inclined to believe in Bungo than he is to humor him.
This is also the segment where, yeah, dad squad. All single dads just trying to make their way in the world. I've already made commentary to Monica (the requestor!) that I imagine Bungo has further interactions with these fellas even after the story is over. Dads gotta stick together, right?
This scene turned out a lot nicer than I had envisioned. I had originally planned for like, a straight up dismissal, not for Thranduil to even humor Bungo, but I feel this adds a little bit more something to the story as things progress - and it brings out a kindness in Thranduil, and puts all three of them on the same level. No one is more superior or inferior than the other at this moment. I love it. #DadSquad
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You know what would be great? Ju Qingsong. How would he be great? Served with mash potatoes and lots of love. Or just maybe seeing more of him, both options work for me :3
Ah, my son boy. Yes, here you go, have more of him :3 @overlordmoth
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Shen Qingqiu looks exquisite today.
Then again, he looks beautiful every day. The peak lord of Qing Jing is always so put together, aloof and untouchable. The very picture of an immortal master of cultivation. It’s part of the reason An Ding receives so many proposals — marriage, trade or otherwise — which inevitably leads to their poor sect leader being drowned underneath them when they all reach his desk at the same time that month.
Shen Qingqiu is sought after, and the best part is that the man doesn’t even seem to know it.
Well, at least not anymore.
The Shen Qingqiu of before certainly knew exactly how gorgeous he was, and did everything he could to use it to his advantage, just as he did anything else that might possibly work to his own benefit. The man was sly, conniving and scheming.
Shen Qingqiu after that qi-deviation fever, though…. Oh, it is so amusing to watch.
He catches someone’s eye, is how it always starts out. After all, how could they not stare at him? He’s a walking masterpiece. Shen Qingqiu of before would have noticed immediately, but it flies directly over the Shen Qingqiu of now’s head entirely.
Whoever it is that the man has caught in his net this time would double their advances, thinking that he is only playing hard to get. Joke on them, though, because Shen Qingqiu is about as dense as a stone fortification wall of the Imperial palace, when it comes to stuff like this.
Yes, it’s always so amusing to watch these lofty officials throw themselves at his beautiful martial brother, increasingly more obvious and dramatic in their advances, only for Shen Qingqiu to either not even notice, or simply misunderstand them so terribly that it is truly hysterical.
It’s one of Ju Qingsong’s favorite pastimes.
He leans back, nursing his cup of wine in one palm while bracing himself on the edge of the banquet table with his other.
Rong Qingsheng is beside him, as he usually is. Ju Qingsong turns to smile at his best friend, and finds the usual hilarity that lies in the way that Rong Qingsheng seems quietly overwhelmed.
Like a man lost at sea, drowning in the surplus of pretty people that surround them. Rong Qingsheng is an absolute sucker for anyone who is even slightly attractive. The man can spend hours crowd-watching, eyes flitting from one beauty to the next. Tonight, Rong Qingsheng’s eyes look a little wild, as if he’s not entirely certain where he wants to start.
It’s like that at peak lord meetings, too. All their martial siblings are so unfairly gorgeous. It’s a veritable feast for the eyes.
Ju Qingsong thinks it’s a little funny. Just a little. A little funny that his best friend is so absolutely certain that he himself is completely average. A little funny, because it’s hardly the truth.
Rong Qingsheng is a sucker, as well as blind.
“Hm!” Ju Qingsong says, a sound of curiosity escaping him as he spots something new. “Have we really been here that long?”
Rong Qingsheng sends him a frown. “What are you talking about? The banquet started barely a stick of incense ago.”
“Then, it looks like we’ve found another difference between the Qingqiu.”
Ju Qingsong juts his chin out, and his friend follows the gesture to stare, surprised, at the retreating back of the Qing Jing peak lord.
They both stare in astonishment as Shen Qingqiu abandons the political social games of the intermingling cultivators that is being conducted in the middle of the floor, and instead makes his way to the back, where Shang Qinghua has set up shop in his usual vantage point.
The peak lords tend to leave An Ding alone during these sort of events, in order to give better mobility in the eternal search of information. Shang Qinghua spends the latter half of events like this one flitting from one end of the hall to the other, snatching up details and overhearing things that he is not suppose to.
For the first half, he nurses a cup of tea against the wall and merely observes, eyes like that of a hawk.
He looks so lonely there, and occasionally Ju Qingsong has been tempted to go and join him, just to see if he can get that slump out of his martial brother’s shoulders. But he never is quite able to tell when Shang Qinghua is working and when he isn’t.
Clearly, Shen Qingqiu does not have similar issues. Or, he just can’t be bothered to care? The man sidles up and plants himself directly beside a rather stunned-looking Shang Qinghua, and that is where he stays for the next several hours.
He makes impressively quick work of loosening Qinghua up. It’s quite a thing to be audience to, in Ju Qingsong’s opinion, the slow blossoming of Shang Qinghua’s smile — the real, genuine ones are always so sweet, it’s like a hand tightening around your heart when you’re on the receiving end— and the step-by-step procession of the man slowly growing less and less tense in the duration of time that Shen Qingqiu spends providing him company.
It makes Ju Qingsong feel regret, for all the times over the decades that he has talked himself out of approaching Shang Qinghua himself. Had his martial brother truly been so lonely, each and every banquet?
What about outside of them?
He takes a peek at the man beside him, wondering if Rong Qingsheng has cottoned on to the same realization, only to blink at the way his best friend’s eyes are staring, intensely, across the room at the same scene Ju Qingsong has been watching for hours now.
“Qingsheng?”
Rong Qingsheng barely even twitches. Ju Qingsong follows his gaze, and narrows his eyes.
He shelves his guilt for the moment, to be pondered rigorously at a latter date, and immediately realizes what a picture the Qing Jing and An Ding peak lords make; comfortably leaning against the ornate stone wall of a warmly lit banquet hall, shoulder to shoulder, cups of tea cradled in their hands, bathed in the intermixing glow of hundreds of candles and night pearls. Talking only to one another and hiding their easy smiles behind a sleeve or a fan, completely at odds with the usual pool of sharks circling one another than inter-sect conferences tend to encourage.
It’s like a painting. Light green and white contrasting with rich indigo and black. A closed off, cold beauty that has softened for the bright beam of sunshine that stands at his shoulder, laughing in a relaxed manner. Their martial brothers truly are exquisite.
Ju Qingsong breathes out as slowly as he can, mouth curling up at the corners. He turns to his friend, mouth open to make a comment, only to stop and stare.
Stunned laughter escapes his mouth, and he’s barely conscious enough to catch and quiet it before it leaves. It would be just his luck for some of the other guests to hear him and pay them attention, especially now that —
He leans down, bumping his shoulder into Rong Qingsheng’s, and breathes out. “Qingsheng. Qingsheng, you’re drooling.”
Rong Qingsheng blinks, startled. His eyes widen imperceptibly, and he reaches up hurriedly to swipe the corner of his sleeve across his mouth.
His stare doesn’t once move away from where their two martial brothers are leaning against the wall, all the way across the room. He doesn’t even answer, like he usually would, voice hushed and embarrassed and demanding that Ju Qingsong shut up. Rong Qingsheng just continues to stare, his glazed ceramic dish held tightly between his fingers.
Ju Qingsong bites his lip, and turns his attention to the small bit of wine that’s still left in the bottom of his cup.
He swirls the liquid around with slight, careful movements, and something in his chest tightens slightly. He can feel the corners of his mouth start to ache, like keeping the ever-present smile on his face has become something of a chore instead of the easy habit it usually is.
He opens his mouth to speak, and then pauses. He raises his cup and downs the last of his wine, licking away the residue from his lips before setting the dish on the table behind him.
“I’m going to go see how Liu-shixiong is holding up,” he says.
He watches how his friend nods, absently, attention still caught by the pretty picture that Shang Qinghua and Shen Qingqiu make together as they wallflower, and fights against letting his shoulders tense up in the way that they’d like to.
Ju Qingsong pushes off the table and steps into the crowd. Liu Qingge is likely to have even better alcohol, and Ju Qingsong feels like he might need some of that, tonight.
Rong Qingsheng turns to stare after him, a slight frown decorating his features, lips turned down, but he’s already gone.
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