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Temeraire: Xiang by norah
Nov. 21st, 2023 11:13 pmXiang (Lung Tien Lien, Napoleon | G | 2,250 words): Lien and Napoleon discuss strategy against England. This is just a really neat scene featuring Lien's perspective.
Excerpt:
And where was the Emperor? When she pressed him, earlier, on his plans to go after England, he had said he would meet with her here, once he had finished counseling with his generals. She was not accustomed to being kept waiting. She snorted, and her breath showed white and misty in the chill air. She was not accustomed to many things she had encountered here; the lack of fear the barbarians showed her was novel, too, for someone born in an unlucky skin, and yet it only served to make her feel more uneasy, more alien. There was no predicting these men and their strange ways of thinking.
Excerpt:
And where was the Emperor? When she pressed him, earlier, on his plans to go after England, he had said he would meet with her here, once he had finished counseling with his generals. She was not accustomed to being kept waiting. She snorted, and her breath showed white and misty in the chill air. She was not accustomed to many things she had encountered here; the lack of fear the barbarians showed her was novel, too, for someone born in an unlucky skin, and yet it only served to make her feel more uneasy, more alien. There was no predicting these men and their strange ways of thinking.