Last bit of internet housekeeping (for now...).

And then I wrote a Yuletide treat for sholio, because I liked the prompt. :)

Desdemona's Holiday (1301 words) by Elizabeth Culmer
Fandom: Chalion Saga - Lois McMaster Bujold
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Adelis Arisaydia, Nikys Khatai, Alixtra (Chalion)
Additional Tags: Family

Summary: Adelis returns to Vilnoc for a family visit (carefully wrapped up in diplomatic pretexts), only to discover that Penric and Desdemona have once again found themselves in a tricky situation.

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sholio asked for a story in which, through some form of handwavium, Adelis and Desdemona get a chance to speak without Penric acting as intermediary. I found a canonically plausible method. :D

This is really chapter 1 of a somewhat longer story, but deadlines being what they are, I posted a complete scene and I am going to try REALLY HARD to get the rest written this year. (I have made a start on the next scene! ...It's from Desdemona's point of view, which is fun, but it also unexpectedly required me to do a bunch of urban planning and that promptly bogged me down, alas.)

Tangentially, I am very pleased with the name I came up with for Tanar and Adelis's child, because it's exactly the kind of careful political flattery you get at imperial courts. :)