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Name: "When will the banners and the victory parades celebrate the day a better world was won?"
Story: waking the dawn
Colors: chrome 01
Supplies and Styles: Chiaroscuro, Portrait
Word Count: approx 9k
Rating: 15
Warnings: It's a rescue-and-aftermath story and not particularly graphic - but not entirely euphemistic either, and it's dealing with the aftermath of torture. (Also the aftermath of a pre-industrial-plus-magic battle.) Body horror, mercy-killing, the implication of disordered eating. Delfi worries about how consensual her brother's relationship is, but it's a groundless worry; she doesn't have all the facts.

I love a good fix-it but I'm almost entirely an original writer; this story is an experiment in whether 'an original fix-it' is a workable thing. Specifically, it's a time-travel / time-loop fix-it, this is the fourth time around as far as Hanno's concerned; he started it, or at least started the fixing-part, mostly by yelling at the powers-that-be until any will to stop him they might have had gave out. (It's probable they didn't even want to stop him anyway. He didn't actually stop to check.) Also featuring: absolutely nobody human, a surprising amount of gen-x nuclear-winter-anxiety for a fantasy story, gleefully gutteral consonant mutation. (I think all the words are obvious from context, but speak up if they aren't. Also, please let me know if I've done anything wrong with the labelling/tagging etc, I worry about these things.)

( When will the banners and the victory parades celebrate the day a better world was won? )