Originally written as a roleplay response to the prompt: "You're not tainted." This older piece inspired me to write Mirrors for Princes, although the darker implication of past childhood sexual abuse was lost in the final version to make a more accessible story. There is nothing explicit in this story, it solely deals with a traumatized mindset.

"If his father must act a king displaced from time, then, let him be a prince, similarly displaced..." Trip's reflections on his upbringing, his journey, and his meetings with Alder and Ash, as well as his concept of war and peace, good and evil, childhood and adulthood. Introspective, genfic, no pairings.