The path of blossoms

Almost done with this chapter, and I think it'll be the version I'll go with. Everything's starting to flow well.

Just have to figure out one thing, though--this fic, in some way, takes place across multiple timelines. There's bits I left a little open from "Kings and Vagabonds," and I'm still working out how frequently I want to revisit those bits. I won't be able to fit them all into chapter one, so I'm not quite sure when I should revisit certain bits, namely the hints I dropped that 40 years in the future, DenLiner had to ensure that everyone and everything was in the right place and time to save Eiji's life.

All right, got a unified start to the first chapter draft of "Project Silver." Hopefully, things will finally start rolling on this.

Chapter 7: Things Left Unsaid
Summary: Morning comes, and Eiji hasn't woken up. While Date and Ami have to bring yet another person into the mess, Rei prepares to make a prayer she never wanted to. And as Hina copes with the things she should have said, she finds Eiji's last hope might have been there the whole time.

Notes: I honestly scored this chapter to music from Babylon 5 and The Legend of Korra. The first scene is from the "Sleeping in Light" soundtrack: The White Light/Echoes From The Past/Dying Station/Delenn's Sunrise. The vision scene is Jinora's Light from Korra, seguing into B5's "The Dream" from Lost Tales, which I'm failing to find somewhere you don't have to pay.

Chapter 5: Where Shadows Fall
Summary: The Leeches take Shingo and Hina hostage, offering an ultimatum to Eiji: Surrender and they will not be harmed. Continue fighting, and they will break their minds. But his friends aren't about to let him give up, and unexpected guardians come to their aid.

Note: I recommend "Ai no Senshi" for the battle and "Zan" for the escape.

Chapter 3: Chasing Darkness
Summary: With Eiji recovering alarmingly fast, the Riders and Sailors compare notes, while Shingo hopes to find a way to protect them from the Leeches.

It took for-frickin'-ever, but I got the damn fic written and halfway edited. I can finally post, and since I always try to post something on my birthday...

Snow, Flowers, Flame
Rated: T
Pairings: There is no selection for "It's complicated": Hina has a crush on Eiji, Eiji's asexual and nobody's sure if he's aromantic too, Ami is asexual and aromantic, Date's sexuality is comfortably ambiguous, Rei seems aromantic but canon shows she might be more attracted to women than to men, and I seriously do not know how to explain this more clearly.
Summary: A premonition of danger, a phone call, and dark shadows bring Eiji together with his older sister, Rei, who is none too pleased to learn of the secrets he's kept from her; reunite Drs. Date and Ami, old friends who haven't spoken since Date's injury; and put Hina and Shingo in the uncomfortable situation of wanting to help but being unable to. As the darkness closes around them, it may just come down to Hina to find her true strength to hold them all together.
Third in the "Kings and Vagabonds" series

Chapter 1: Bone, Shadow, Blades
Summary: An attack on one of Eiji's neighbors drags him and Hina into a battle with the darkness itself while old secrets come to light between him and his sister, Rei, and between Ami and her old friend Date.

Also posted! The final chapter of Vagabonds on FFN.

About to start a fic, so it's time to delve into way too much research than I actually need in order to get the background information that's probably three textbooks thick for something I'm going to condense down into probably a paragraph and a line of "Cosmic energy--I don't have to explain it."

Also, cosmic energy is the new magic.

Chapter 7 now live on FFN.

Chapter 6 of Vagabonds reposted to FFN now.

Still hard at work on the final chapter of "Snow, Flowers, Flame," and so far so good. I'm hoping this doesn't lead to pain.

Oh god, I'm finally on the last chapter. How did I even manage it?