Title: Ere
Author: chaila43
Fandom: Queen’s Thief – Megan Whalen Turner
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Discussion of canonical torture
Prompt: 136) Ask yourself three questions and you will know who you are. Ask "What do you believe in?" "What do you hope for?" But most important - ask "What do you love?"-- Paullina Simons (born 1963), Russian-born American novelist, journalist and translator.
Summary:  “Ere translates as love, a rather ruthless love, not mercy. . .The Great Goddess of Eddis is not known for her mercy.” Attolia would never confuse love with mercy.
Author's Notes: 3,200 words. Spoilers through The King of Attolia. Thanks to beccatoria for the beta!

( What do you love? )

Title: Carve me in marble, cast me in gold
Author: chaila43 
Fandom: Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: None
Prompts:
13) If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down, these women together ought to be able to turn it right side up again. -- Sojourner Truth (1797 – November 26, 1883), African-American abolitionist, women's rights activist, advocate for prison reform, anti-capital punishment activist, lecturer and saint of the Episcopal Church.

120)
You and I
Have so much love,
That it
Burns like a fire,
In which we bake a lump of clay
Molded into a figure of you
And a figure of me.
Then we take both of them,
And break them into pieces,
And mix the pieces with water,
And mold again a figure of you,
And a figure of me.
I am in your clay.
You are in my clay.
-- Kuan Tao-Sheng (1262-1319), Chinese painter, calligrapher and poet of the Yuan Dynasty.
Summary: Terissa's nightmares always start and end the same way. Terissa Dyson and Sarah Connor, with guest appearances by James Ellison. ~ 3,000 words.
Notes: Spoilers for the entire TV series and Terminator 2. Many thanks to beccatoria for the beta.beccatoria

( Terissa's nightmares always start and end the same way. They start with Sarah Connor and they end with death. Their predictability does not mute their horror. )beccatoria