Moonlight Waltz (Dimitri/Byleth) by sylphwriter24, literature
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Moonlight Waltz (Dimitri/Byleth)
Fhirdiad’s magnificent gardens were laced with a delicate frost. In the soft light of the moon, the whole garden shone like a relief in silver. Byleth found herself amazed by both its beauty and its promise. The ground was fading from winter into springtime. Where thick layers of snow had previously hidden the grass, now only delicate frost remained. Her heart swelled at the sight. It was as if the land itself was awakening at the arrival of her true king. How surreal these past few months had been! Only a few short months ago, Dimitri had wandered wraith-like through the monastery, hardly alive but not yet dead. His gentle heart buried beneath years of pain and suffering, almost choked like the little purple crocuses beneath the winter’s snow. His eyes alight only to blaze with the eternal flames he wished upon his enemies. Only a few months ago, their campaign pointed on a suicidal route southward, to Enbarr and certain death. And on bloody Gronder Field, everything
Fireside Warmth (Dimitri/Byleth) by sylphwriter24, literature
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Fireside Warmth (Dimitri/Byleth)
Byleth sat staring at the fire dancing. Flames licked the logs hungrily, cracking and snapping as they devoured their fodder. Flames that marked her too. Flames that smouldered in her blood and sinew, and promised...something. Hanneman was so eager to finally give a name to her mysterious crest, one she did not even know existed within her until a few brief months ago. The mercenary shifted her hands around her knees, her dark eyes fixed on the fire. She’d heard precious little about crests before coming to Garreg Mach, but the more information she learned, the more confused she grew. To hear Sylvain talk, crests were a curse that had ruined lives and left their bearers to float on the whims of others’ political aspirations. To Lorenz, they were a divine gift: a way for the goddess’ hand to shape the world through her followers’ descendants. Byleth found herself unable to make sense of it all. Would these flames inside her illuminate the world around her, bring light to
I don’t have many friends. Acquaintances, perhaps, but very few friends.
Sometimes I wonder if it was due to my childhood. I grew up hardly interacting with anyone outside my family. I drew as close to them as to anyone, yet even that was stymied. My brothers and cousins were all superheroes in my eyes. They were powerful and influential; they could make their demands reality like magic. They were demigods. From these people, I learned how to lead, but I learned little about how to relate.
I respect every action of decorum and every social nicety proper for negotiations and formal interactions. These are Cartesian, and theref
Phantom of Hetlia: N.Italy: Home by sylphwriter24, literature
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Phantom of Hetlia: N.Italy: Home
“That will be enough for today ladies. We rehearse the second act tomorrow, bright and early. Rest up, report back at seven o’clock, and for goodness’s sake, I want to see precision in those tour jetés! Remember, you are dancers, not dead fish flopping around on a hook, so dance like it! Off you go.”
The corps de ballet sighed with relief at their dismissal. The ballet master, Monsieur Zwingli, had been particularly harsh this rehearsal. While an accomplished dancer himself and a skilled choreographer, it seemed the man knew nothing of softening his words, especially around his beloved art form. However,
Nyo!FinlandXSweden: Thawing the Frozen Heart Ch. 3 by sylphwriter24, literature
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Nyo!FinlandXSweden: Thawing the Frozen Heart Ch. 3
When the soldier awoke, he felt as though he had slept forever. His mind was clear and sharp for the first time in ages, a welcome and strange feeling after its previously muddled state. He opened his eyes, and was greeted with a blurry watercolor that somehow possessed sharper clarity than before. Wearily, the man reached up to his face and rubbed his eyes. A realization struck him.
‘My spectacles, where are they?’
Squinting, the man turned his head to one side, attempting to catch a glimpse of his murky surroundings. A warm rustling surprised him as he moved. Looking down, he saw his whole body encased in a clutter of w
Dark!RussiaXReader: Save Me From Myself Ch.6 by sylphwriter24, literature
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Dark!RussiaXReader: Save Me From Myself Ch.6
“No! I won’t let you do that!” Ivan’s eyes grew wide, panicked at the idea I had proposed.
“Ivan, I understand you’re scared, but this is the best thing I can do to help you. You have to trust me.” I knew he was not going to like this idea when I first proposed it. I had expected some resistance, some refusal, maybe even some fear. What I had not anticipated was the desperation with which he would struggle against my plan.
“No! You can’t! Look what he almost did to you last time!”
I admit that my insides shuddered at the memory, but my insistence grew no weaker.
“
Nyo!FinlandXSweden: Thawing the Frozen Heart Ch 2 by sylphwriter24, literature
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Nyo!FinlandXSweden: Thawing the Frozen Heart Ch 2
Miles melted beneath the reindeer’s hooves as the woman urged it onward. Frantic haste mixed with the euphoria of survival lent the whole journey the strange combination of dream-like disconnect mixed with the too-sharp detail of reality. Time was fragmented, yet fluid.
‘Just a little farther…’ she assured herself, ‘Just a little distance more…’
She knew these plains intimately, like old neighbors. Her youth had been spent in both enjoyment and labor among these hills. Every knoll, every valley, had a memory and a distinctness that she could discern even buried and blurred by winter. Her eyes
I have very little experience being a woman. My whole life, I was raised around men, and theirs were the mannerisms I learned.
When most girls would learn to sew or sing, I learned how to throw a solid punch and how to fight.
When most girls would learn to keep their speech demure and refined, I learned how to speak boldly and with power.
While most girls learned how to giggle coquettishly and bat their eyes, I learned how to maneuver troops and arrange attacks.
When most women learned to be women, I learned how to be a man.
I am a machine when it comes to battle. In my element—in the world of men—I stand head and shoulders
En el pueblo, el aire se mueve
como un suspiro.
Dentro de los carros y los autobuses,
de los perros y las personas,
de las calles y la arena,
Hay movimientos, alientos, latidos del corazón.
In the town, the air moves,
like a sigh.
Between the cars and the buses,
the dogs and the people,
the streets and the sand.
There are movements, breaths, heartbeats.
Los nervios chasquen de la actividad
y baile bajo de los movimientos de pies
y las almas.
Murmura en un coro unido,
.
Nerves crackle with the activity
and dance beneath the movement of feet
and souls.
It murmurs in a united chorus,
"I live,
I live,
I live."
El coro suena en los grito
The Phantom of Hetalia: France: Why So Silent? by sylphwriter24, literature
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The Phantom of Hetalia: France: Why So Silent?
The hall went silent. The joyous laughter and rambunctious dancing, the swirl of color and the heady music all fell to death-like quiet. Standing at the top of the grand staircase, wreathed in smoke and fire was The Masque of Red Death.
“Lord, no,” I begged under my breath as I held tight to Raoul’s jacket. “Not here, not now.”
François had returned.
The costume he stood in looked as though he had garbed himself in blood. With wide-Venetian sleeves and prideful, red dancing slippers, François’ character looked like a dapper and fashionable creature—except for its face. His who