Nicki's Lair

I've been pondering different things about Will of the Empress, since it just came up on Goldenlake's book club, and I just finished listening to it as an audio book. I wasn't active in Pierce fandom when it was published (I'd pretty much dropped offline after getting a condo and my first dog), but I do remember making my way back to the Dancing Dove to see what other people thought of the book after I'd read it.

( spoilers, on the off chance anyone hasn't read it and is planning to. )

Title: Wide World Before Me
Fandom: Tamora Pierce (Emelan universe)
Length: approx. 10,000 words
Rating: R (due to one scene that deals with war, alludes to rape, and includes the death of a minor character)
Summary: In the months after Will of the Empress, Daja and the rest of the Circle work toward finding a way to heal.

Notes: This was written as a series of ficlets, for the August 2010 prompts at the LJ 31_days community. As such, it's not necessarily a complete story, though all of the ficlets are connected and (except for one rearrangement at the very end) all are sequential. Eventually I'd like to expand this and fill in some of the gaps between ficlets, but for now, I thought I might as well post it here.

Also note: fic is at my Dreamwidth account, because it's too big for one post here on Livejournal.



"It was still summer in Emelan: real summer, the kind Namorn would never know."