Through the Cracks Ch 7 up on AO3

I have spent much of the day wrestling with the evils known as 1040.  So. *Thud.* No real wit left to try and come up with much. I edited instead.

Which means Through the Cracks Chapter 7, “Homecoming,” is now up on Archive of Our Own.  🙂

Through the Cracks Ch7 bit – Friends

:So that’s why the Call was so intermittent!: Whickering with glee, Sano pounced, clamping red hair between his teeth. :I found you I found you I finally, finally found you-:

Through the Cracks Ch 6 up on AO3

Through the Cracks chapter 6, “Unsheathing the Nails”, is up on Archive of Our Own.

Through the Cracks Ch7 bit – Really Lost

Gripping an obviously human ear, Yahiko growled in pure frustration. “You’re human. Why is your hair still red?”

Through the Cracks Ch7 bit – Posse

Human, Sano thought, stunned, as Kenshin carefully outlined the events of that day and night, the vrondi’s light holding steady as he spoke. He feels… he is… human.

Through the Cracks Ch7 bit – Ningen

“You wish to know of Pastun,” Kenshin said, ignoring the slow curses of Battousai in his soul.

“The night you were there,” Kaoru nodded soberly, pushing back her sleeves.

Through the Cracks Ch7 bit – Sunset

“You did it!” Yahiko pounced on the man currently dropping chopped vegetables into the evening’s soup, grinning. “I knew you could do it! Baka Guards….”

“Maa, maa, Yahiko-kun.” Kenshin surreptitiously latched onto the boy enough to keep them both from pitching off the edge of the engawa into simmering fish stock.

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Through the Cracks Ch6 bit – Testing the Waters

“Retaliation?” Selenay said neutrally. “From your own people?” Kerowyn had put together quite a story. Let’s see how much of it he admits to.

Yamagata drew back a step, watching her carefully. “He is… Battousai.”

Through the Cracks Ch6 bit – Royal Duty

“-It’s not safe for him to be outside a clan!”

Selenay squelched the urge to knead away her headache. Gods, if she could only join that small corner of her conference room the Gensai family had taken over,

Through the Cracks Ch6 bit – Maybe Demons

“How did we miss him, Kero?” Eldan’s fists clenched. “He’s a killer – he’s an assassin – and we let him in the same room with Selenay!”