fic update!
Jan. 28th, 2022 03:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
sitting, the witcher
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Sigh, it’s friday, and in my attempt to ever know what day of the week it is, it’s time to update a chapter in something. now, i know i got excited earlier this week, because the Roche stuff is going to start to intersect with the timeline stuff for the Pearls stuff, right, and then we can finally catch that up and have them come together into a single timeline, right, so exciting
but then i realized i needed like. another. chapter or. well. maybe like 10k. ok maybe like 20k. of exposition there. and i’m still writing that. just– to make it line up at the start!!
(Yes, this is Roche’s POV of Geralt’s rendezvous with him in chapter 6 of FFP, and then it will lock seamlessly into place! Except. i wrote. that chapter. without ever expecting i would write anything else specifically about Roche. and it kind of contains a timeline contradiction directly within itself that now i have to work around. ….eeeeehhhh we’ll figure it out.)
So anyway.
Instead I did chapter 20 of Fit For Pearls, https://archiveofourown.org/works/31289303/chapters/91594558 which does not do anything for our timeline reconciliation but does give us the punchline of what Luliana– remember Luliana? this is a story about Luliana– was doing while the entire epic saga of chapter 19 was taking place.
“It’s not from the Emperor,” Morvran said. “Never mind the specifics. But the summary is that I don’t dare use any of my people to send a message. Especially since I spoke to my mother last night– there’ll be additional scrutiny, and I do not want to risk anyone who works directly for the Emperor, as everyone who works for me does. You have a level of remove, and could do it without risk, and without any conflict of loyalty.” He hesitated. “Barring, of course, your mistress forbidding it, which of course I expect you’ll have to–”
“I’ll do it,” Luliana said. “I can’t– I’ll ask her, of course, but I can’t see her objecting.”
He blinked at her, then seized her hand in both of his, brought it to his mouth, kissed it fervently, and released it just as suddenly. They sat there for a moment, and then Luliana laughed and snatched her hand away, pressing it to her chest. “Don’t– it’s nothing, Voorhis. Really.” (Your picture was not posted)