toujours_nigel | 31 Flavours: Classic Hollywood RPF

Today's rec is a Vulcan Cyd Charisse. Yeah.

Solivagant (13749 words) by Beatrice_Otter
Fandom: Classic Hollywood RPF, Star Trek
Relationships: Cyd Charisse/Nico Charisse, Spock & Nyota Uhura
Additional Tags: Crack, Vulcan, Marooned, Crash Landing, Ballet, Route 66 - Freeform, Period-Typical Sexism, Period-Typical Racism, Crack Treated Seriously

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Today's drabble is for
She goes laughing into the chariot when Karna wins her, eschewing his extended hand and only laughing harder when she has to grope for a handhold as it careens over the rough ground. They don’t teach princesses how to keep their feet in war-chariots, in the court of Queen Chandramudra.
“I will learn,” she tells Karna when she is steadier, not as artless an admission as it may appear. Bhanumati is ambitious but not foolish, and Duryodhan’s reputation intriguingly ambiguous: a man who would send his cousins to their death and his friend to fetch a bride.
“I’ll teach you.”