[Codex: Debauchery with the Dread Wolf]
It was late, well past midnight. And yet, there they were, raiding a cellar for its spirits.
She proposed it. Or maybe he had. He doesn’t recall who did, but in that moment he wouldn’t have hesitated to jump into a volcano if she so desired.
He’s not sure how he ended up here. Not physically, of course, he remembers that. He doesn’t remember how he came to find himself in these situations with her of all people. She’s foul and rough and her wild crone’s cackle grates against his ears like coarse gravel. When she laughs, which always seems to be at his expense--particularly when Sera pulls her antics or Blackwall opens his mouth...she howls at the Inquisitor’s puns. Her sense of humour is about as questionable as her morals.
But perhaps most inflaming of all is her stare.
He’d known her eyes were trouble from the start. He’d sensed her gaze often, cursory and light as though she thought he would not notice. He had caught her a handful of instances, fully expecting her to avert her eyes meekly or quickly occupy herself with a menial task. But no, she locked with him like a sword catching a blow. Interestingly, after a time it had become a silent game of who could outlast the other. He was loathe to recall she had won almost every time only because his attention was needed elsewhere. And she wanted him to know she was the victor, because she’d always pull a face as he turned away, some infuriatingly childish expression of triumph that made him clench his teeth.
It did not stop there. Somehow she knew how to get under his skin in the littlest ways. Modifying his barriers in the heat of a fight, casting after he announced he would, asking him for something as he’s doing it...challenging or questioning his knowledge despite it (usually) being easy to confirm. Or maybe she really was stupid. He did concede that her mask was quite effective, so it was difficult to tell.
He could never catch her giving the same treatment to the others. Then again, she was uncannily good at slipping from notice--enough that he’d thought she was doing it by magic. He didn’t like the idea of her getting away unnoticed.
Not that...not that he paid such close attention to the bothersome midge.
Not at all, he thinks, as she pulls a cork from a dusty bottle with her teeth. Like a raccoon with a good find in the refuse.
I'm only keeping an eye on her, he thinks after they’ve shared a whole bottle in the dark, whispering like a pair of thieves. Which they are, he reminds himself as he drinks more wine.
She’s trouble, he continues after they’ve found a table in this well-stocked basement. She continues to pull bottles from shelves. She wants to taste them all. A small keg with an ouroboros stamped into the wood. A dingy bottle with a man’s gap-mouthed face on it. A few tankards. She lights the hearth--she looks like a demon standing with the fire at her back. He thinks he’s going to die of alcohol poisoning tonight.
She’s wicked. But he’s nearly wheezing at her joke about licking frogs.
Demonness, as he slips the dirk from her boot so they can vandalise the table.
They carve out the lyrics to Tel’uth Viral Laima Ma, the most abhorred song in Elvhenan. Is this what his existence has boiled down to? Cavorting with a rival in some dark hole bored into the earth?
She drinks him under the table. She sings, terribly. He hates it, and no, if anyone asks, he didn’t hum along.
A door slams somewhere. Footsteps above. The owners are back--she’d sworn this place was abandoned! He can’t move his legs, at least not in a quiet or effective way. She’s laughing at his panic again.
Then she’s lifting him to his feet--no, she’s carrying him. She’s absurdly strong for her size. But it doesn’t matter--they’re going to be caught, he just knows it. She snaps at him to shut up--apparently no one can see them. Magic? Or stupidity?
They slip into the night, around the back. The crisp air is refreshing on his skin, his mind. Some clarity returns--then she dumps him unceremoniously against a wall. He can’t remember if they’re in the city or deep in the forest at an elven chateau. He doesn’t remember when they are.
But he catches her moonlit gaze and her crooked grin that’s as crooked as her soul.
“Wanna fight, Solas?”
He laughs. He stammers, but no words come out. The thought of touching her sets his ears and face aflame. That thought makes him balk. But he won’t deny that the idea of a good brawl with her wouldn’t be a balm on his wounded pride. Her grin is broad as the sickle moon in the sky as she fists his shirt and swings him.
The sky wheels above, melting into a smear of starlight, shadow, and too-bright, jovial eyes.
Too bright.
The sun is shining in his face. He’s on his back and his hands are tangled in sheets. His head aches.
He turns blearily, searching his night stand for water...and finds a crystal bottle filled with a golden liquid. Why is it so shiny? It feels like it’s mocking his delicate constitution. But he doesn’t have to read the label to know it’s an elvhen hangover cure. There’s a note folded in half beside it.
Even her handwriting is terrible.
I like being rivals. Let’s do it again. Maybe the stick will finally dislodge from your arse next time. Then we can beat each other with it. I'm only half kidding.
[There’s a lewd drawing at the bottom in place of a signature. Wait. Had he carved that into the table?]
The words are absurd. They bewilder him.
“No, absolutely not. Never again,” he insists to the empty room. He falls back on his pillow, crumpling the letter it in a fist and pressing the cool crystal to his forehead.
Then he starts to laugh. He laughs until his stomach cramps.
He’s lying to himself again.
Read more about their bastardry in “Ouroboros” on Ao3
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Serena's Masterlist: Non-HP works
Including HP crossovers.
Last updated 28/12/2023
Overview
Anastasia x Harry Potter x Mary Poppins
[Filk] Embers and Soot (G, no characters, complete, multivoice)
Bredlik
Mantolik (G, Chinese bredlik translations, complete)
Doctor Who
Hear Me Out (T, Graham & 13, complete)
Emelan
[podfic] tea at midnight (G, Trisana & Briar, complete)
[podfic] Dear (G, gen, complete)
[podfic] speak with my own voice (G, gen, complete)
[podfic] The Night Is Still Young (G, gen, complete)
Galaxy Quest
[podfic] SMOF (G, complete)
Greek Mythology
[Filk] Proem: Helen, Achilles and the Great War of 1,200 BC (G, complete)
Merlin (TV)
[Podfic] Mud (T, Merlin x Arthur, complete)
Meta-fandom, if nowhere else
[Filk] podfic podfic filk (G, the llama song, complete)
[Filk] (Voiceteam) Over the Rainbow (G, tto Over the Rainbow, complete, multivoice)
[Filk] I like the Voiceteam (G, tto I like the Flowers, complete, multivoice)
[Filk] The Flan-King (G, Voiceteam filk tto Erlkönig (Schubert), complete)
Original Work
What's in the Dark? [podfic] (T, Original Work (Werewolf game), complete)
Percy Jackson Universe
[Podfic] The Lost Gods (T, Thalia & OC, complete)
Phantom of the Opera (all media)
Voiceteam Triumphant (G, gen, complete, multivoice)
[Filk] This World Is Mine! (T, Carlotta / gen, complete)
[Filk] Podfic Home (G, complete)
Science Fandom
[Filk] From the life of a C. elegans researcher (G, Science fandom, complete)
Small Podcast Fandoms
Tremor [podfic] (T, Down - Definitely Human, complete)
On your mind [podfic] (G, The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest, complete)
The Sound of Music
[filk] Ea-Nasir's Favourite Things (G, Mesopotamian RPF, complete)
[Filk] I've been bamboozled by ebay-Nasir! (G, xkcd, complete)
Star Wars: The Clone Wars x The Muppets
[Podfic] We are all luminous beings (G, gen, complete)
This Is How You Lose The Time War
Poison & Win(?) (T, Blue/Red, complete)
The Witcher
Blaviken [filk] (T, Geralt / Jaskier, complete)
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Details
Anastasia x Harry Potter x Mary Poppins
[Filk] Embers and Soot (G, no characters, complete, multivoice)
Summary:
An a cappella mashup song of Chim Chim Cheree (Mary Poppins) x Once upon a December (Anastasia) x In Noctem (Harry Potter).
Additional Tags/Warnings: Filk, mashup, a cappella, original arrangement
Bredlik
Mantolik (G, Chinese bredlik translations, complete)
Summary:
两份 Bredlik 翻译。(Two Bredlik translations into Chinese.)
Additional Tags/Warnings: Inspired by Tang Poetry, Podfic
Doctor Who
Hear Me Out (T, Graham & 13, complete)
Summary:
At the end of Episode 7, series 12, the Doctor avoids the topic of Graham’s cancer disease, stating her social awkwardness. As a doctor of (amongst others) medicine, and especially as The Doctor, she really could have done better!
So here is my version of what she could have said and done.
Additional Tags/Warnings: Mentions of Cancer, Grief/Mourning, Episode: s12e07 Can You Hear Me?, script format
Emelan
[podfic] tea at midnight (G, Trisana & Briar, complete)
Summary:
Tris shook the hand she was still holding out to him. Little Bear, obediently off the bed, whined a little. “Up.”
Briar squinted up at her. “It’s cold out there.”
“It’s damp in there. You’d think you’d run up a mountain, not had a nightmare.”
Podfic of tea at midnight by dirgewithoutmusic.
Additional Tags/Warnings: short & sweet, podfic
[podfic] Dear (G, gen, complete)
Summary:
A selection of letters to and from Trisana Chandler during her four years at Lightsbridge.
Podfic of Dear by KiaraSayre.
Additional Tags/Warnings: epistolary, podfic
[podfic] speak with my own voice (G, gen, complete)
Summary:
Laima Greenfinch, interviewing Trisana Chandler for the Lightsbridge Gazette, Watersday, 23 Hearth Moon, 1046 K.F.
Podfic of speak with my own voice by AlexSeanchai.
Additional Tags/Warnings: interview format, podfic
[podfic] The Night Is Still Young (G, gen, complete)
Summary:
Four nights during the social season at the Citadel.
Podfic of The Night Is Still Young by ivyspinners.
Additional Tags/Warnings: fluff, podfic
Galaxy Quest
[podfic] SMOF (G, complete)
Summary:
In this fandom, there are things you don't talk about.
Podfic of SMOF by hollimichele.
Additional Tags/Warnings: Fandom Allusions & Cliches & References
Greek Mythology
[Filk] Proem: Helen, Achilles and the Great War of 1,200 BC (G, complete)
Summary:
A venerable Greek P(r)oem where everybody got three epithets.
Additional Tags/Warnings: Iliad, tto Prologue (Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812), filk
Merlin (TV)
[Podfic] Mud (T, Merlin x Arthur, complete)
Summary:
In which Merlin and Arthur are trudging through the muddy woods.
Podfic of Mud by ProdigyBlood.
Additional Tags/Warnings: Muddy kisses, Banter, Fluff and Humor, Flirting, Self-Indulgent, Merthur fun, Merlin's insults, Clotpole, Arthur is a royal ass, merlin loves it, all the mud, One Shot, Arthur loves Merlin really, Cute, Merlin's a cocky bastard
Meta-fandom, if nowhere else
[Filk] podfic podfic filk (G, the llama song, complete)
Summary:
The podfic version of "llama llama duck".
Additional Tags/Warnings: tongue twisters galore
[Filk] (Voiceteam) Over the Rainbow (G, tto Over the Rainbow, complete, multivoice)
Summary:
Voiceteam filk tto Over the Rainbow!
Additional Tags/Warnings: Voiceteam 2023
[Filk] I like the Voiceteam (G, tto I like the Flowers, complete, multivoice)
Summary:
We all like the Voiceteam.
Additional Tags/Warnings: tto I like the Flowers, Voiceteam 2023
[Filk] The Flan-King (G, Voiceteam filk tto Erlkönig (Schubert), complete)
Summary:
A Flanfilk inspired by Flan and Goethe's Erlkönig.
The filk of [Poem & Podfic] The Flan-King.
Additional Tags/Warnings: flan, tto Erlkönig (Goethe & Schubert)
Original Work
What's in the Dark? [podfic] (T, Original Work (Werewolf game), complete)
Summary:
The quiet small town of Narfolk is suffering a series of gruesome murders. Is it due to werewolves or just some wild animals? Either way, something has to be done, someone needs to be blamed.
Additional Tags/Warnings: Major Character Death, Horror, Suspense, Dark Comedy, mob justice, semi-improvised, Werewolves, paranormal podcast, might be a bit melodramatic, but like… in a fun way!
Percy Jackson Universe
[Podfic] The Lost Gods (T, Thalia & OC, complete)
Summary:
A cushy house-sitting job, a mysterious journal, a creepy guy at a pool, and... a rescue crew with arrows and wolves?
Suddenly, this summer job had gotten a whole lot more interesting.
Podfic of the fic The Lost Gods by hiddendruid.
Additional Tags/Warnings: includes slavic mythology, podfic
Phantom of the Opera (all media)
Voiceteam Triumphant (G, gen, complete, multivoice)
Summary:
You are compelled to sing. Voiceteam filk tto Masquerade.
Additional Tags/Warnings: Voiceteam 2023, filk
[Filk] This World Is Mine! (T, Carlotta / gen, complete)
Summary:
What if Carlotta strived for universal domination?
Additional Tags/Warnings: Crack, space opera, self-aggrandisement, tto This Place Is Mine (Yeston / Kopit), filk
[Filk] Podfic Home (G, complete)
Summary:
Wherever podfics play
I know I'm home
Europodfriends filk tto Home (Yeston/Kopit)
Additional Tags/Warnings: Europodfriends 2023, filk
Science Fandom
[Filk] From the life of a C. elegans researcher (G, Science fandom, complete)
Summary:
About my favourite model worms, tto "Row your Boat".
Additional Tags/Warnings: C. elegans
Small Podcast Fandoms
Tremor [podfic] (T, Down - Definitely Human, complete)
Summary:
“I don’t need sass, I need… I need… something else!”
Marion pulled Sam away before he could reply with yet more sass — or worse, offer the agitated Captain a drink.
A multivoice recording of a Tremor by LenaLawlipop
Additional Tags/Warnings: Charlie Dresden / Marion Straker, Episode 11, emotional hurt/comfort
On your mind [podfic] (G, The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest, complete)
Summary:
Hadji was quiet on the way back to the hotel. He couldn’t meet Jessie’s eyes in the car, or after.
A multivoice recording of On you mind by KDHeart
Additional Tags/Warnings: Whump, Past Mind Control, Awkward Tension, Episode Tag
The Sound of Music
[filk] Ea-Nasir's Favourite Things (G, Mesopotamian RPF, complete)
Summary:
A complaint about the world's most (in)famous ancient copper merchant, set to music.
Additional Tags/Warnings: inspired by xkcd 2758: My Favorite Things, tto My Favourite Things
[Filk] I've been bamboozled by ebay-Nasir! (G, xkcd, complete)
Summary:
A complaint about ebay, inspired by above filk.
Additional Tags/Warnings: inspired by xkcd 2758: My Favorite Things, tto My Favourite Things
Star Wars: The Clone Wars x The Muppets
[Podfic] We are all luminous beings (G, gen, complete)
Summary:
Some Jedi are more force sensitive than others. And then there's the Jedi who aren't so much force-sensitive as straight up force beings who have somehow acquired a physical body. The clone troops roll with it.
A multivoice podfic of We are all luminous beings by MarbleGlove.
Additional Tags/Warnings: filk
This Is How You Lose The Time War
Poison & Win(?) (T, Blue/Red, complete)
Summary:
About the final poisoned letter from Red to Blue.
Additional Tags/Warnings: tto Posion & Wine (The Civil Wars) , filk
The Witcher
Blaviken [filk] (T, Geralt / Jaskier, complete)
Summary:
Jaskier walks into a bar, after "Rare Species"...
Additional Tags/Warnings: Possibly unrequited Geralt / Jaskier
Serena's Notes: I took more of an advisory role in this, but that doesn't stop me from loving how it came out!
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