it's a beautiful day on the village green

Rating: Piquant
Words: 3649
Characters: Harrowhark Nonagesimus, Palamedes Sextus, Gideon Nav, Camilla Hect
Relationships: Gen
Summary: Harrowhark Nonagesimus is horrified to discover after inviting the Sixth to visit on a whim that Palamedes Sextus has taken their arguments about necromantic theorems on the net for friendship. Worse, she's less and less sure that he's wrong.
Notes: For sigalit in the Locked Tomb Exchange.
Today, I feel an alien. If I could disappear.
Not a danger, not in danger. Belonging here. If I could
be the shape of your breath in the cold. What camouflage
have we. How we bury our living
within us. This precious ache I cradle, my treasure
My dread. What barren, what beauty it makes of me.
— from "Contact," Camille Rankine

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