#shahrazad

★★★★★ the Bleak Evangel says: "She is the keystone of the world, through which anything is granted meaning at all. She did not create this place, but only because she is here is it worth paying attention to."

★★★★★ Lady Amaryllis says: "I can affirm her function as a device that translates 'is' to 'ought.' It is strange and wondrous that such a treasure could exist, let alone leave heaven. I possessed her for three nights and days: then I could defend her no longer."

★☆☆☆☆ the Moonsieve Witch says: "I have never seen her. If anyone shows me so much as a picture, I will smite them dead."

★★★★☆ the Cupbearer Witch says: "It is certain that she can fulfill all of someone's wishes - though she needn't the cosmic power with which some attest her to do that."

★★★★★ the Ever-Turning Axis, Lady-Technician Shahrazad says: "I am more aware of the shape of your absence than my own body.

I have relinquished even thin gossamer hopes: seeing your gleam at distance, cherishing your voice, listening to your breath.

Please pass a message. That is the most I can imagine you giving, and it is the most I will beg. A few words for an old maid to treasure and repeat to herself every morning.

I do not know myself to have wronged you; yet if ever were there a slight, I regret and repent.

I dare not chase you. I dare not abandon the frail machinery at the heart of the world: but it is for you that I remain recluse to its chamber. It is my hand that has damaged it, but spared my hand again it will die.

What do you love, perfect thing - what thoughts are sweet within your shell? Envision the awe and dread of watching all that you hold precious become ash — all! from what you most fervently adore to what bears only slightest fondness —

And know that this image captures nothing, for it is a moment fleeting through the mind's eye, known to be false.

You cannot yourself fathom the pain of losing you, and in the light of this ignorance, I plead grace!

In the name of all service I have rendered to the world, I plead grace!

Reward me for my service, first among the fair!"

my take on limbus company shahrazad, big nerd author and certified ummmm actuallyyyy (she/her)

When Aziraphale and Crowley are both sent to India to meddle in the affairs of a murderous king, they realise that the perils of the court may be too much for either one of them alone to handle. Luckily, a clever, strong-willed Vizier’s daughter named Shahrazad has also had enough of the king’s tyranny. Together, they hatch a plan to change the king’s mind and free the women of the kingdom, and in so doing, they change the course of history forever.

Words: 4,571

Status: Complete

Rating: Mature

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“Your departure was like the taste of the sea in my mouth while I was drowning.”