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When All the World Shall Melt by neverfaraway
Fandoms: The Terror (TV 2018), The Terror - Dan Simmons
27 Jul 2021
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I’ll not have a picture, he thinks, gazing grimly at James’ drawn, damaged face. I’ll not have a miniature to tuck inside my breast pocket, or a sketch made on a winter’s evening by the fireside. It will be my own burden to remember him, until such a time as this cursed land takes me, too.
Twenty five men return to England. For Francis, this means making a poor job of keeping James from scuttling his career, and working out what a sea captain might do with himself in the absence of a ship.
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- Part 1 of When All the World Shall Melt
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23 Jun 2026
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“My heart for Miss Cracroft’s,” James explained, forcing his voice to sound certain and calm even if he was quickly feeling anything but. Crozier kept staring at him, a thunderstorm growing in his face. The furious silence reigned between them for another minute before James added, “You... eat the hearts of the… young and beautiful…”
The Wizard Crozier’s stare was hard and unbreakable. James could feel the snappings of electricity in the air around them, the hair standing up on the back of his neck. He could feel it now, the sheer power in this man.
“You don’t know anything.”Series
- Part 1 of ghibli au series
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15 May 2026
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In the aftermath of Sir John's death and Francis' involuntary leave of absence from the office, James reaches out to Francis by email; a correspondence begins. And doesn't stop.
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10 May 2026
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“There’s colour in your cheeks, at least,” Francis judged, and stood. “I will return with the doctor as soon as I may. Do stay upright, James,” he added, with a tinge of real worry.
“I am capable of sitting in a chair,” James returned with some hauteur, and then Francis left the tent and James had to put all his effort and energy into not making himself a liar.
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07 May 2026
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Back in the Arctic, stuffed two to a sleeping sack and trying to keep each other alert, he and James used to name every good type of thing they would eat when they got back, knowing–as they thought–the time would never come.
'Cream puffs', James had sighed one frigid night in a partial feverish delirium. Francis could hardly see him but for the lightest starlight, yet he had heard the smile evident in his voice all the same. That close, he had nearly felt it.
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Hailed as heroes on their miraculous return to England, Francis and James fail to cope, but nonetheless manage to fall together.
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28 Apr 2026