toujours_nigel: woman's crowned head (queen and empress)
rheaitis ([personal profile] toujours_nigel) wrote2019-03-15 09:34 pm
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31 Flavours: Queen's Thief

Today's rec is Irene and Helen tender and fierce and stunning

Her Lovely Face Gleaming Like a White Poppy (14033 words) by loathlylady
Fandom: Queen's Thief - Megan Whalen Turner
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Eddis/Sophos (Queen's Thief), Attolia/Eugenides (Queen's Thief)

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Today's drabble is for
Madri loved horses, as a child. In some other land this might have made for a rare princess, but everyone loved horses in Madra where children learnt to ride as soon as they could keep a seat and grip a rein, and lived half their lives in stables.
The greatest temples in Madra were dedicated to the Ashwini twins, healers and horse-lords, and their symbol stamped on every saddle, woven into the pennants fluttering white and gold above the war-chariots of Madra.
Shalya comes home alone from a fight with Hastinapuri. Madri, prisoner-wife, summons the twins to her marital bed.

[personal profile] shneyele 2019-03-16 10:39 am (UTC)(link)
One almost ran away with me but someone stopped it. :o