River of Stars Ch 2 bit – Dharma

“My.” Master Koumyou halted in the shade of a flowering cherry. “What a lovely place for a smoke.”

Kouryuu clapped a hand to his face in disbelief. “Master, the castle guard-”

Earring Tales: Hawkfeather

There are a lot of ways writing and beading are oddly alike.

River of Stars Ch 2 bit – irony

“Fortunately, Koumyou Sanzo was known to be a bit eccentric,” Hakkai informed them, picking his words with delicate care. It wasn’t lying. Exactly. “Once he pulled Kouryuu from the river, he allowed the rumor to spread that the stranger was actually a holy young monk from the mountains, who’d been persecuted by jealous evil spirits to the point that he threw himself into the river and prayed for purification. Which, obviously, worked.”

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What Comes Around Ch 19 bit -Extra Sarcasm

Movement, traced by the faintest bright wings of rukh. A small head of messy brown hair, tucked against a woman’s dusty blue blouse as the young boy shivered in chill air. The lady herself was shackled to a bench – steel, no magoi-draining runes – deep blue eyes scared and furious enough that those shackles might be the only thing keeping her from tearing evil idiots to bits.

River of Stars Ch 2 bit – meeting Koumyou

You know something, Hakkai concluded. Oh dear. But he let that realization slide over his reactions like glass. Whatever they might know, they didn’t – couldn’t – know what a Sanzo really was. Most of Shangri-La didn’t know; not even the highest priests. “I don’t think Ni believes in control groups. Dr. Genjyo wasn’t experimented on-” by Ni, at least “-because he wasn’t there.”

What Comes Around Ch 19 bit – For Science!

Cold!

Alan sputtered, spitting out water that had tried to sneak into his nose. Jerked once, before he could think better of it, trying to flinch away from the bloodsucking drain on his wrists.

River of Stars Ch 2 bit – Sha flashback

Shadows moved against shadows, blurring into a dejected, brown-haired young man in the same kind of prison tunic he’d been shoved into. Staring down at something on the wall ledge that served for a table, the stranger shook his head in denial, light glinting off three silver cuffs on his ear-

Since when did prisoners wear jewelry?

River of Stars Ch 2 bit – flashback

A/N: I did change one canon detail in specific, because Hakkai’s backstory has so much squick already and that (manga) canon bit with his relations with Kanan is completely unnecessary and would blow the lid off any dealings with the SGC, ever. Warning, if you do know Hakkai’s canon backstory, here’s where things get bloody. If you don’t… um. See above? Hakkai has the nickname Thousand-Slayer in canon.

The nickname does. Not. Exaggerate. Consider yourself warned.

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“Sorry I’m late!” He pushed through the front door, schoolbooks in hand, ready for Kanan’s fond smile and Gonou’s disapproving scowl. Honestly, glad as he was to have found his sister again after all these years, he wished he’d been around to help her think twice about marrying a man so – stiff. And secretive.

River of Stars Ch 1 bit -Hakkai vs. SG-1

A/N: Round one. Ding!

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Someone cleared his throat. “Mind telling us what you’re up to?”

Abydonian, Gonou’s memories labeled that language; not Goa’uld, but used on many of their planets. Uh-oh.

What Comes Around Ch 18 bit – Some Favor Fire…

A/N: Currently in the middle of editing/writing new stuff for a lot of 18. (Which will end up being 19 on AO3, due to the chats being 17 there.) There’s an interrogating-Biegen scene, for one, that is being very stubborn. On the bright side, once that’s done, that chapter will have at least half again more length?

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Aladdin got a grip and kept dragging. Morgan could handle whatever was ahead of them, but he didn’t need Fanalis ears to hear the enemies rushing into the tunnel behind them. Where Alan was.