'Maybe Yusaku's life really was just a millisecond in time—but what an incredible moment it was." Ai comes to terms with Yusaku's death.

"I am an old man nearing the end of my life, with nothing to lose and not a care as to who I offend. All that I have—our fortune, our esteemed place as leaders of the Alliance, the thousand-year history of our family name—is yours. It is only yours." (Oswald von Riegan reaches out to his grandson.)

To be her hero, he would gladly be everyone else's villain. (Or: Percy is shoved down a dark road, and reacts accordingly.) (Warnings for graphic violence, implied sexual assault, and character death.)

A haunted woman comes across humanity's last hope. (A mostly genderswap AU. TW for suicidal ideation, sexual abuse, and alcoholism).

"She looked at the people of her tribe, all bones and anger from the hunger. She looked at her husband, with his thin face and the quiet resignation in his eyes. She looked at their daughter, a miracle for having survived to four years old with the way things were." (Chief Rinkah vs. a man-made famine.)

So long as she had Lady Selkie at the center of her life, Asugi at its peripherals, and the hells beneath her feet, the encroaching darkness would have to wait. (In which Rhajat gradually loses her eyesight, over eight years.)

"He remembered the Ice Tribe as home. For too many others, it was blight upon the earth." (Prelude to "Hero of One". Warnings for xenophobia.)