Honour Guard

Honour Guard

(A ketek from the fic Lies Illuminating Truths, 4200 words, rated General)

Me and mine are not honoured, lighteyes, to protect you.

Dark eyes visibly in uniform makes you uncomfortable.

You hear me, Your Majesty? I hear you.

Your discomfort makes the uniform invisible, eye darkly.

You protect lighteyes honour, not mine and me.

what people think is hard about writing: describing the joy, love, beauty, grief, loss and hope that form the richness of human experience

what is actually hard about writing: describing basic actions such as turning, leaning over, reclining, gesturing, saying something in a quiet voice, breathing, getting up from chairs, and walking across rooms

For the ask game: what is fanfic 2 (😂)?

Unsurprisingly, it’s the second Stormlight fanfic I ever started.  😂  Can you tell that I like writing about Renarin’s visions yet?

“Is the stew ready?” Renarin asked, glancing hopefully at the simmering pot.  “I won’t be able to stay long.  Father’s meeting with the Azish generals soon, and there’s a camp inspection later tonight.”

Cord handed him a bowl of steaming stew.  Renarin ducked his head in a nod of thanks and turned away, walking back towards the benches ringing the fire.  He was still a few feet away from the nearest one when he felt more than heard a sharp crackle beneath his foot, as if he had just stepped out onto thin ice.  He automatically looked down, to see shards of black glass spreading out from beneath his boot.  He felt a moment of dismay.  Again?  So soon?

The glass enveloped the ground ahead of him.  Renarin came to an abrupt halt, afraid that he would trip over the benches he knew were in front of him but could no longer see, grateful that the cookfire was at his back.  

Renarin's Special Interest

1700 words

Rated General (I know, surprising)

RoW

Jasnah is trying to work and Renarin keeps going on about his special interest. Excerpt below the cut.

“Did you know that listeners hear the same beat of the Rhythms of Roshar, no matter where they are?” Renarin asked. “That’s why it seemed like they could communicate with each other across large distances. They were attuning the same Rhythms.”

“Yes,” Jasnah said absently, and scribbled rhythm instead of reconnaissance. She sighed, crossing the word through top and bottom and moving on. No time to start a new page.

“It connects them on a fundamental level. Imagine being apart from someone but knowing you were still attuning the exact same Rhythms. I think it would be great to learn them,” he droned on. “Besides, it’s nice to know exactly what someone is feeling without having to ask.” He started to list the different Rhythms he knew. “Determination, Pain, Longing, Amusement…”

Jasnah gritted her teeth. When Renarin had been obsessed with wines, it had been easy to shut out the information. But this…this was actually fascinating, and potentially useful for the fight. Where was he getting this information?

(full story here)

Division? 👀

“Division” is part of a potential series of Surgebinder missing scenes.  As some people know, I’m a little obsessed with the female swordmaster ardent who has just one speaking line in 4 stormlight books. I thought it would be cool if she turned out to be Chanarach (a soldier who is tired of the fight). This fic is a conversation between her and Zahel.

“What’s your name,” Zahel asked over his shoulder as he headed across the sands towards the swordmaster’s barracks, clearly expecting her to follow.

She stared down at her hands, hands that hadn’t held an honorblade or used the surges in centuries.  If she thought about it, she could almost feel the warmth, the ability to run her hand over a surface and leave a trail of ash and beautiful destruction in its wake.

It was the first Surge of the Dustbringers. 

Division.

Divided.

“Ivis.”

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