Chen Chou first met Xu Dong back when he and Zhang xiong were first preparing for the Capital Examination, when they all got drawn into the series of weird cases that led up to a failed coup and everyone in the capital nearly dying from a mist of red pollen.

Their relationship has only been like this since Chen Chou and Zhang Ping moved to Yiping County, though.

Chen Chou and Xu Dong's arrangement through the years, and how everyone els…

Gabrielle's travels take her to a new continent, but the city she hunts in already belongs to someone else.

Edward receives an education in the inutility of virtue. The Earl abducts him for a session of discipline.

Aumerle doesn't seek absolution.

A reimagining of the scene with Julian in the forbidden garden in Chapter VI Part II: A Gift and a Curse. What if the guards passed the garden by entirely and Julian and the Apprentice had more time? Julian is a cis man; Apprentice's gender and body are unspecified.

Sing, o Muse, of the wrath of a philosophy major upon realizing his roommate/boyfriend has borrowed his copy of Fear & Trembling and has no intention of giving it back. Scenes from one highly troubled semester.

"Step into my fucking office."

October 14: En route to Varna, Seward must tell a fellow suitor what transpired one night at Hillingham.

"Don't," he says, thin and strangled — no, not strangled, really. Smothered. The word hardly left his throat at all, and if John hadn't been so close, just about on top of him in an enclosed space, he might never have heard.

(For the Tumblr prompt "things you said while you were driving".)

Connie makes her bones, almost.