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Viper in the Lady's Garden by Lea Hazel (PG13/T)
Fandom: TAMORA PIERCE - EMELAN - STREET MAGIC
Pairing: gen, Ikrum
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lea_hazel
Author Website: http://www.lea-hazel.net/
Why this must be read: Because Lea takes the leader of the Viper Gang and shows us how he is what Briar might have been and makes him into a character worthy of both our sadness and our sympathy. She latches on to that part of what makes Street Magic work so well, the road that might have been taken, and expounds upon it in a truly lovely way.
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The fight wasn’t long. Ikrum ignored the cuts in his shoulder and side and concentrated on what he knew would have to happen. That was how he found Qifar’s weakness, when he lunged for his stomach. The dagger lodged deep, and Ikrum pulled it up through the chest, then finally pulled it out with difficulty and stabbed the dying tesku through the heart. Just because he was a lazy idiot, didn’t mean he had to be left to bleed to death. He was, after all, a Viper.
The others watched him as he stripped Qifar of all his knives, piling them beside the body for those who needed to take. Finally he wiped the two bloody daggers on the dead boy’s tunic and kept them for himself, crossed over the small of his back, like a crest. Then he untied the beaded gray band from Qifar’s right arm and wrapped it around his own, over the plain one.
He looked around him. “You,” he ordered, “bury Qifar’s body. You hand out these knives. The rest of you stay here and finish what we started. Except Sajiv and Orlana. You come with me; we’re going into that shop we saw yesterday.”
They did as he said.
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Pairing: gen, Ikrum
Author on LJ:
lea_hazelAuthor Website: http://www.lea-hazel.net/
Why this must be read: Because Lea takes the leader of the Viper Gang and shows us how he is what Briar might have been and makes him into a character worthy of both our sadness and our sympathy. She latches on to that part of what makes Street Magic work so well, the road that might have been taken, and expounds upon it in a truly lovely way.
The fight wasn’t long. Ikrum ignored the cuts in his shoulder and side and concentrated on what he knew would have to happen. That was how he found Qifar’s weakness, when he lunged for his stomach. The dagger lodged deep, and Ikrum pulled it up through the chest, then finally pulled it out with difficulty and stabbed the dying tesku through the heart. Just because he was a lazy idiot, didn’t mean he had to be left to bleed to death. He was, after all, a Viper.
The others watched him as he stripped Qifar of all his knives, piling them beside the body for those who needed to take. Finally he wiped the two bloody daggers on the dead boy’s tunic and kept them for himself, crossed over the small of his back, like a crest. Then he untied the beaded gray band from Qifar’s right arm and wrapped it around his own, over the plain one.
He looked around him. “You,” he ordered, “bury Qifar’s body. You hand out these knives. The rest of you stay here and finish what we started. Except Sajiv and Orlana. You come with me; we’re going into that shop we saw yesterday.”
They did as he said.
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Viper in the Lady's Garden by Lea Hazel T (PG-13)