Buckle up, boyo.

Forgot to update with the new chapter. I'm a terrible self-publicist.

“Well, Fitchner au Barca, why don't we continue this conversation somewhere a little drier, and warmer?” He offers me a hand. My eyes flicker between it and his face. I eventually fix my gaze on his, and it dawns on me that he's quite possibly the most stunning individual I've ever seen. Beautiful eyes that seem to shine in the dark, beautifully high cheekbones, a beautiful, chiselled jaw. He looks down at me with a smile that is patient. And beautiful. I lower my knife and put my calloused hand into his beautifully-manicured one. He hauls me to my feet and in that moment, my concussion-induced nausea gets the better of me. I pitch forward and vomit on his beautiful boots.

A brief, companionable silence ensues between us. The waves take on an almost rhythmic, musical quality until the spell is broken by a strong gust of wind. The metal supports struggling to hold up the Lovelock engine keen and moan in its wake, making the wrecked engine sound like a leviathan in its death throes.

The Collapse of the Lovelock engine gathers speed. And the couple have finally made physical contact, I repeat, we have physical contact!

“It worked though, didn’t it?”

Genuinely beginning to wonder if Tori Amos was used a reference/inspiration for Bryn and if she was, I'm very cool with that because Tori Amos is The Shit.

So many people think Triton is just gray, gray, gray but they're not paying attention. The sun might be far away but the colors we get are breathtaking; Deep reds bleeding into orange, then purple, then pink, even green, sometimes. Some Orange engineer told me it's to do with the dust and gasses the Lovelock throws up into the air. Prismatic scattering, he called it. I don't know about that. I just know it's beautiful.

This actually happened. It's canon.

It saddens me that there's only one fic featuring Arturius on ao3 and it's mine. He's a criminally slept on character. I wish more people knew about him, Fitchner, and their utterly unhinged levels of codependency.

- leaves