Sutcliff Swap!

And the opening of sutcliff_swap is upon us! ALL THE NEW SUTCLIFF STORIES YAY YAY YAY.

First, the stories for meeeeeee! There are two of them!

First, riventhorn’s The Disciple, which is about Lucius (<3 <3 <3) and in a wonderful Lucius voice, slow and measured and thoughtful. And his friendship with Hilarion! Hilarion is pretty much Lucius’s opposite (and he does an appropriate amount of snarky lounging in this story), and yet despite this they are still good friends.

(I also think it is pretty entertaining that riventhorn and I basically wrote each other Lucius stories. Go us! Let us bring the light of Lucius to the fandom!)

And second, but quite as well beloved! No Battle’s Won in Bed, which is a Blood Feud story about Thormod’s unfortunate and unrequited crush on Anders, which he doesn’t quite notice is unrequited until he totally does, and...ow. Thormod comes across as bluff and hearty and determinedly uncomplicated in the book, so it’s interesting to see that there are feelings seething beneath his Viking facade.

Also, a recommendation: melannen’s Shining Company story, For My Song’s Sake, is just beautiful and packs a huge amount of feeling and setting and everything into a wonderfully compact story. This line, for instance, about Prosper and Cynan’s new home among a company in Byzantium: But the other men of the Excubitores were not so different from us, after all. The name might have meant, rather than tireless sentinels who kept watch the night, 'men who cannot sleep for nightmares'.

Wonderful.

And finally, the stories that I wrote! Both Frontier Wolf, because apparently I am all about Frontier Wolf ideas. Clearly I need to go ahead and write that Frontier Wolf review that I have been planning.

First, my main story, for isiscolo.

Title: In Deep Waters
Fandom: Frontier Wolf - Rosemary Sutcliff
Pairing: Alexios/Cunorix
Rating: PG
Beta: sineala
Summary: The longing was strong in Cunorix to take that outstretched hand, slim and strong, and follow Alexios wherever he would go. That was the soulbond speaking: it pulled at him, like the current of a river, and if Cunorix had looked into Alexios’s eyes, perhaps it would have drowned him.

There is no such thing as too much soulbond angst, am I right?

And a pinch hit for riventhorn!

Title: Pax
Fandom: Frontier Wolf - Rosemary Sutcliff
Pairing: Lucius/Hilarion a little bit, though Lucius would be surprised to hear it
Rating: G
Betas: carmarthen and sineala
Summary: Soon after Lucius arrives at Castellum, he and Hilarion are trapped away from the fort by a fog. They take the opportunity to take each other's measure.
Or: how Lucius got his wolfskin.