Esther/Haddassah. Every Christian girl's hero. A great woman of God... but not a good Jewish girl. / One woman's struggle between principles and the greater good.

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He took three lives, she left three snakes. Lucy Gray walks away.

Long become a respectable young lady, Nancy ices some biscuits at a child's teaparty with unexpected results. / England 1941 and an aviation industries application is accepted and cancelled. / AU, what if Tolkien's works had been in publication fifteen years earlier?

"Now the scanty wind carries past me the dust of the life down there." / Once daughter, sister, one day mother, woman. One man and a little life later and she was locked in a window watching life go by.

"Because fighting to keep burning is harder than shining as a memory in the annals of glory, but that doesn't mean it's less of a story. Or battle." In 3013 T.A., entropy grips the once glorious lands of Eorl, and none can see it happening as clearly as the one trapped within the very heart but unable to change a thing.

"Hullo, Sam!" said Rosie. "Where've you been? They said you were dead; but I've been expecting you since the Spring. You haven't hurried, have you?" / In the autumn of 3019 TA, the Shire is ravaged but still the Travellers haven't come home. Long past Spring, Rosie Cotton faces her deepest fears alone.

Dís had already lost a home and half a family before the ill-fated Quest. She had survived. She had lived without security, safety, comfort, allies. She had survived. She had been left behind like every fear of a lifetime, and she waited. She survived. And when the rest of her family didn't, she learned what hope-strength really was.