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Title: Of Wolves (or, Little Red Riding Teagan and the Big Bad Cauthrien)
Authors: cherith & serindrana
Fandom: Dragon Age
Pairing: Ser Cauthrien/Bann Teagan
Rating: M
Wordcount: ~15,00
Summary: The Regent has taken Fereldan and the paths have all grown dark. Teagan's brother has taken ill, but on his way to Rainsfere, he meets a wolf on the road... (ff.net & Ao3)
Notes: A fairytale AU, and our holiday gift to all of our readers.

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So, I've been taking intensive intro Mandarin, yeah? Three months now. I can even say stuff like your driving makes me nervous, you should drive more slowly. Very exciting!

And right now I'm home for the week. Today I went to the sushi place I frequent, which is staffed by people from Taiwan and mainland China. I'm sort of friends with the owner, and so I mentioned I'd been taking Chinese (he asked how my studies were going) and he seemed amused, but I left it like that because I didn't want to be lol awkward LET ME SPEAK YOUR LANGUAGE BADLY at him.

But after the meal, he came back around and thanked me in Chinese so I complimented the meal, and he understood me and tried to teach my grandfather how to say it (awkward, as his hearing aids... don't work). So I wrote a little message in hanzi on my paper table mat thing, because I was too embarrassed to say anything else but I wanted to practice... or something, I don't know. And I was just going to leave it there without saying anything. But my grandfather pointed it out.

And it all made sense! \o/ (It was just thanking them all for lunch, which was delicious, and my name.) And the owner was so patient with me and everything and just...

I'm actually learning a living language.

I am.

WHAT IS THIS MADNESS.

Title: War is Never Cheap Here (12/12)
Authors: cherith & serindrana
Game: Dragon Age: Origins
Pairing: Bann Teagan/Ser Cauthrien
Series Rating: NC-17/AO
Chapter Rating: T
Series Wordcount: 99,400
Chapter Wordcount: 9,043
Warnings: Dark. Violence and abduction. Reference to sexual assault.
Summary: Edlyn is found. The return to Rainsfere is accompanied by duty and regret - as is the final leaving of it. (Ao3) (FF)
Notes: War is Never Cheap Here is now finished! It's been a great ride (and Maker, it's taken nearly half a year), and we're so glad you came along with us. We have other projects in the works, so remain on the look out. Thank you all so much for reading and supporting.
Chapters: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

( We did as well as we were able. Nothing more can be asked of us. )

I'm up far, far too late (this is becoming a disturbingly regular occurrence), but before I finally lay my head down, have Halloween pictures! I, like most years, just threw on stuff from my closet. Being a costume nerd does have some advantages.

So some tight-lacing and half a stick of eyeliner later, and you get this:











(smaragdina, David, and me! ROGUE WARRIOR MAGE, clearly.)

( And under here is a shot of how small we got my corset down for a few shots )

Title: The Seasons Of Our Day
Game: Dragon Age Origins
Pairing: Ser Cauthrien/Mhairi
Rating: T
Wordcount: 4,016
Warnings: None
Summary: In a Fereldan winter, guilt brings them together. (ff.net & Ao3)
Notes: Beta'd by smaragdina.

( This is a conversation we have outside of our positions. )

Title: Sandcastle Virtues [1/?]
Game: Dragon Age Origins
Pairing: Shianni/Zevran
Series Rating: M/AO
Chapter Rating: T
Wordcount: 3,968
Contains: Reference to past sexual assault.
Summary: Shianni is not a particularly good thief, but a Bann must do more than attend parties and make speeches; she must serve her people. Zevran takes it upon himself to help. (ff.net & Ao3)
Notes: Begun as a birthday present for B-mommy on Tumblr!

( If she would not disappear or move quickly, he would inventory her entire outfit before the night was through, without getting it off of her. And that would be a shame. )

Title: War is Never Cheap Here (10/12)
Authors: cherith & serindrana
Game: Dragon Age: Origins
Pairing: Bann Teagan/Ser Cauthrien
Series Rating: NC-17/AO
Chapter Rating: NC-17/AO
Series Wordcount (to date): 82,211
Chapter Wordcount: 7,759
Warnings: None
Summary: Having done everything to find Edlyn that they can think of, Cauthrien and Teagan settle in to wait and turn to re-establishing their relationship. (Ao3) (FF)
Notes: War is Never Cheap Here will be updating weekly, on Fridays. Projected length looking like twelve chapters.

We're sadly going to have to take another hiatus - two weeks again. See you again on the 28th!
Chapters: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

( There wasn’t any question about what was happening between them. It was a kind of freedom, liberation and exultation. )

Title: War is Never Cheap Here (9/12)
Authors: cherith & serindrana
Game: Dragon Age: Origins
Pairing: Bann Teagan/Ser Cauthrien
Series Rating: NC-17/AO
Chapter Rating: T
Series Wordcount (to date): 74,422
Chapter Wordcount: 8,086
Warnings: None
Summary: The search party is sent out. Cauthrien and Teagan turn to Edlyn's writing practice to try and set straight what's happened once and for all. Along the way, Teagan realizes that only three weeks remain before Cauthrien leaves - possibly forever. (Ao3) (FF)
Notes: War is Never Cheap Here will be updating weekly, on Fridays. Projected length looking like twelve chapters.

This chapter has a modified stanza of the poem When we Two parted by Lord Byron.
Chapters: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

( He reached for her again like he had in the night, unwilling to let her go. )

Title: Chevalier Games
Game: Dragon Age: Origins/Awakening
Pairing: Nathaniel Howe/Ser Cauthrien
Rating: M/AO
Wordcount: 3,221
Warnings: BDSM, misogynistic language in the context of role play
Summary: Nathaniel Howe is a wicked, wicked man - and one full of ideas. An afternoon in the stables turns to hard play and Cauthrien will not break. PWP. (Ao3)
Notes: Absolutely and completely a PWP. Not the same 'verse as Unwarranted Affections, but still set in Amaranthine with Cauthrien as a Warden; she joined after the events of Awakening. Established relationship.

( His mouth found her throat and suckled there at the sweat-salted skin, ignoring the permeating scent of horse and the lingering traces of mud and darkspawn blood. He focused instead on elfroot and leather and steel, the scents that were particularly hers. )

Title: War is Never Cheap Here (8/12)
Authors: cherith & serindrana
Game: Dragon Age: Origins
Pairing: Bann Teagan/Ser Cauthrien
Series Rating: NC-17
Chapter Rating: T
Series Wordcount (to date): 66,366
Chapter Wordcount: 7,403
Warnings: None
Summary: A late summer picnic gives occasion for Teagan to practice symmetry and discretion- and Cauthrien to try valiantly to keep them both on task. (Ao3) (FF)
Notes: War is Never Cheap Here will be updating weekly, on Fridays. Projected length looking like twelve chapters.
Chapters: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

( What was he really doing, playing this game - a very potentially politically volatile game - and did that matter to him at all? )