Locked away in the Little Palace, attempting to hide her magic from the probing curiosity of the General, Hermione searches for her way home. Circumstances lead her to make a deal with the devil but even the best-laid plans don't always go the way you want...
Helin was not like the rest of the children in the village bordering Fjerda. Black hair as dark as spilled ink, eyes the colour of a starless sky, little Helin was an outcast and something irrevocably wrong. When Ravka doesn't get its prophesized Sun Saint but another Shadow Summoner, the continent trembles in the turns of fate and fortune. Fem!Harry/Darkling. Half-Sibling Incest.
There was a stone statue in the Little Palaces courtyard that had stayed exactly where it was for an age and a half. No one knows where it comes from, who it depicts, how it came to be, only that it is known as the Hallow. Then Alina Starkov begins to visit it, and something thought long lost returns. Alina/Fem!Harry/Darkling. Triad Pairing.