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ARCHIVIST'S NOTE: Andraste decided to do the fic-equivalent of Christmas cards for some of us this year--drabbles of precisely 100 words apiece. This one was done for Persephone and myself, and ties in with my story, Scheherazade, and the Oasis series as a whole.


In The East

by Andraste


They're somewhere that maybe used to be Morocco when all the stars in the eastern sky start falling. It's as if someone's putting on a fireworks display just for them, and Nate is suddenly paying more attention to it than he has to anything except the sound of her voice for a long time. It gives Domino one of those tiny surges of hope that keeps her putting one foot in front of the other. It reminds her of a story.

"A long time ago, there was a girl called Mary, who was meant to marry this guy Joseph ..."


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