crack_van | Your Quaint Honour by Voleuse (NC-17)

Fandom: BATTLESTAR GALACTICA 2003
Pairing: Kara Thrace/Lee Adama
Author on lj:

voleuse
Author Website: A Work in Progress
Why this must be read:

What is that moment when a relationship turns from a friendship to something else? Sometimes it's not a single moment or a single conversation, sometimes it isn't any words at all, just a series of minute changes and gradual shifts. In "Your Quaint Honour"

voleuse charts the unspoken shift in Lee and Kara's relationship, a shift that begins with the ending of civilization.

voleuse's strength is her prose. With stark, elegant sentences, she illuminates the unspoken, drawing out the meaning in a look, a touch, a slight shift in behaviour. She alternates segments of story with excerpts of verse (the poem To His Coy Mistress), a technique that is difficult to pull off. Here though, the juxtaposition is perfect, with the verse serving both to complement and to add richness to the narrative.

Your Quaint Honour