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“Oh!” Emlyn smiled. The whole room brightened. “There you are. We missed you at dinner.”

An unforgivably selfish part of Rat felt pleased to have been missed. However… “We?”

“Alistair,” Emlyn replied, hanging up xir coat and scarf. “And Cassilda, and Oriel, and Quince—y’know, everybody.”

Rat very much doubted any of them had noted his absence, much less missed it. Either Emlyn hadn’t noticed—which seemed doubtful, given the canny ease with which Emlyn navigated society—or Emlyn had told a polite lie to spare Rat’s feelings and perhaps foster goodwill between disparate circles.

Which made Rat wonder if Emlyn had lied about xirself as well. Had xe actually missed him at dinner, or, upon seeing him sitting alone in their dormitory, had xe remembered that xe ought to have missed him and bent the truth accordingly?

“Did you eat earlier?” Emlyn asked, jolting Rat out of his spiraling thoughts.

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Chapter Six of A Mirror for the Prince’s Shadow – a historical m x nb romantasy featuring dark academia, hurt/comfort, and dragon royalty – is now on Patreon! Wherein a tentative friendship is forged.

She struck out her hand to him. “Griswold. Pre-med track. Aiming for general surgery.”

Rat accepted her firm handclasp with his first genuine smile of the day tugging at the corner of his mouth. “Ratcliffe. Likewise.”

She took this in with a brisk nod. “Do you ride?”

His first neutral-to-positive university acquaintance, and already he must disappoint her.

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Chapter Five of A Mirror for the Prince’s Shadow – a historical m x nb romantasy featuring dark academia, hurt/comfort, and dragon royalty – is now on Patre♡n! Wherein a puppy is protected.

Breath burst from Emlyn’s lungs in a plume of bubbles swept away by the current. Xe resisted the instinct to draw water in its place. Instead xe flailed towards the faint hazy light that marked out the surface. The current dragged xir down. Panic seized xir heart. Xe kicked out against it. Darkness pulsed at the corners of xir eyes. Xir ribs burned for want of breath. None-too-distant memories flashed through xir mind—

Then xir face broke the surface. Cold air stung xir cheeks and brow as xe gulped down acrid fog.

Xe was stupid for even trying—beyond foolish. Xir limbs plunged into fathomless depths. Xe would never find the sack in the dark—the current must’ve dragged it far off by now—forever out of reach. Still xe struck out xir arms, fingers grasping through the roaring waters, desperate to touch even a fleeting hint of canvas. The city lights blurred through the fog and glistened off the river’s torrent—

Save for a shadow that did not reflect the gas-lamps.

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Chapter Four of A Mirror for the Prince’s Shadow – a historical m x nb romantasy featuring dark academia, hurt/comfort, and dragon royalty – is now on Patre♡n! Wherein an acquaintanceship is attempted.

“Rat, everyone,” Emlyn declared when Rat drew up to the table, casting xir wrist out in the vague direction of the coterie at large. “Everyone, Rat.”

Hardly an introduction. Rat supposed Emlyn didn’t think xir friends required anything more.

The devil of it was that Rat did know them all. To a point. Every letter from Emlyn at the academy and university alike regaled Rat with minute descriptions of xir friends’ physicality, behaviour, opinions, and every adventure and misadventure they’d all enjoyed together. Rat wondered if Emlyn had spoken as oft of him.

Given the five blank looks regaling him in a chorus of stony silence now, he doubted it.

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Chapter Three of A Mirror for the Prince’s Shadow – a historical m x nb romantasy featuring dark academia, hurt/comfort, and dragon royalty – is now on Patre♡n! Wherein a penny dreadful is perused.

Rat had explained most of the preceding hundred-odd chapters to Emlyn on their way over. How the titular pirate king ruled the seven seas with an iron hook. How the quartermaster would do anything for his captain, including sacrifice his leg. How the youthful bo’sun didn’t seem like much on the surface but had featured in almost every chapter since his first appearance and boded more than met the eye.

“Bit like you, really,” Rat said before he could halt his tongue.

Emlyn just smiled.

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♡ The Train Job – Rowena Althorp x Rebekah (ff)
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Chapter Two of A Mirror for the Prince’s Shadow – a historical m x nb romantasy featuring dark academia, hurt/comfort, and dragon royalty – is now on Patre♡n! Wherein a prince is imperiled.

Angels didn’t get sick.

At least, Rat didn’t think they could. He’d never heard tell of it during Sunday sermons in the workhouse.

His drowned angel, however, fell into a fever within an hour of his rescue.

It crept into the drowned angel’s bones gradual-like. Quiet enough while they sipped coffee in the penny university. But as the coffee drained away, a cough started to come between sips, and by the time they’d got down to dregs, the drowned angel shivered.

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♡ A Mirror for the Prince’s Shadow (historical m x nb romantasy)

Completed works…
♡ the Aubrey & Lindsey solar fantasy project (mm)
♡ A Willing Canvas – John Halloway x Lord Cyril Graves (mm)
♡ The Train Job – Rowena Althorp x Rebekah (ff)
♡ Hold Fast 2 – Hold Faster (mm)
♡ Vampires Vampires Vampires (mmm)
♡ The Sebastian Nothwell Contemporary Expanded Universe (mmm+)
♡ Theo. (transmasc historical mm romance)

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