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Under the Twelfth Vulture
Jan. 5th, 2013 09:15 pm( The year was fading into autumn, and even here on the sheltered sloping little streets that wound up the hill to the great wooden-roofed church Hagia Sophia, a little cold wind coming up from the Golden Horn made the fallen leaves dance and shuffle in the gutters... )
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A Singing Magic
Jul. 30th, 2012 03:01 pmWords : 7974
Taking off point: Rosemary Sutcliff's The Lantern Bearers
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Flavia, brought up in the last lingering light of Roman Britain, was carried off from her burning home by a 'laughing giant' of a Saxon, in a raid during which her father and friends were brutally killed. Three years later, her brother found her again - married, and with a child by that same 'laughing giant'. Given the chance to escape back to the remnant of Roman Britain with her brother and her child, she chose to stay with her husband rather than go with her brother. This story explores what those years were like for Flavia, and how she came to make that choice.
Although there is a threat of rape in this story, it's not graphically violent. Contains suicidal thoughts, Christianity, culture clash, Anglian pagan religion, magic.
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carmarthen, inzilbeth_liz and particularly seascribe for beta reading and brainstorming help.
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Flavia had been waiting for the end of the world all her life. They all knew it was coming. This year, next year, in three years time perhaps - the Saxon tide would sweep in and carry away the beloved little farm on the Downs, like a sandcastle in a wave.
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