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This is tragically belated because life has been happening at me this past week. Still, better late than never, yes?

Anyway, you MUST go read my gift immediately!

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The Gift of Terrain (2557 words) by Edonohana
Fandom:
Darkangel Trilogy - Meredith Ann Pierce
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Aeriel (Darkangel Trilogy), Eoduin (Darkangel Trilogy)
Additional Tags: Worldbuilding, Pre-Canon, harvest, Festivals, Fruit, Magic, Non-Sexual Slavery

Summary: Eoduin should be certain that she’d be chosen as Harvest Maiden. Who but the syndic's daughter should be the one to mount the stone step with her new kirtle swirling around her ankles and hold her giftfruit high for all to see?

But the syndic didn’t choose the Harvest Maiden. Terrain did.

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Basically, this is the pre-canon Eoduin & Aeriel story of my heart, which catches their weird, tangled almost-friendship in all its problematic glory. The worldbuilding is AMAZING, full of fruits and flowers and food, and lets you see both how Terrain is still beautiful and rich (despite Oriencor's draining of the world), and what Oriencor's slow poison has done to the people instead of to the land.

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