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  1. Rec 37

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    Married to Lord Ormund Hightower, Princess Elaenys Velaryon must toe the line to balance her duty to her family as well as the unfurling needs of her demanding husband. All the while convincing him that she is very much the dutiful, obedient, and loyal wife he believes her to be to prevent a war between kin.

    But fate does not make it easy. Nor does her husband's tumultuous childhood and the needs that drive him now.

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  2. Rec 35

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    They call it a game. But Princess Elaenys Velaryon knows it is not a game, and if it was it was a dangerous one. One wrong step means the delicate thread that ties her new husband to her mother’s side should a war break out, to the Black side rather than the Green, is broken. But in matters of the body, of life and death, and loyalty: lines were due to blur. She anticipates it. Resigns herself to it.

    If he wanted obedient: she would give it. If he wanted piousness, Elaenys would give it. She would give anything if it meant her family was safe. Elaenys just does not anticipate that the richest man on their side of the world, the most powerful man without a Dragon, a man who prided himself on his faith and his seat…was just as depraved as he claimed they were.

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    18 Jul 2026

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  3. Rec 16

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    Gwyn is eighteen when Hightower riders corner her father at a river crossing and haul them both to Oldtown. She expects a dungeon cell. Instead, she gets a house by the harbor, a servant to heat her bath, and Lord Ormund Hightower in her bed three nights a week.

    She hates him, and she has every reason to.

    But Gwyn possesses something Ormund wants more than gold: a memory that never loses a single word. At first, he keeps her near for that gift. Then, he keeps her near because he can’t seem to stop. These are two very different problems that share the same face.

    When he marches to war for the Greens, she travels with the column. Her father is still trapped in the cells beneath the Hightower. Or at least, that is what she believes.

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  4. Rec 41

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    More than a decade into his fruitless-but-educational search for the Avatar, Zuko finds himself the target of a strange creature's interest. He's not worried about it. He's fought plenty of monsters before.

    But the vibes this time are... weird. And only getting weirder.

    In which Shaman Katara takes her role as a provider for her tribe very seriously and doesn't fully think it through when she gets a chance to knock up the Fire Lord's first born son.

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  5. Rec *

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    “The sun set a little while ago,” he replied, his distaste at divulging his weakness clearly stamped across his face. He diminished when she rose, and vice versa, their elements in fundamental conflict at all times.

    Katara paced slowly, eyeing the cavern carefully, assessing it as a living space now rather than as an area solely to escape. “Right. Okay. So, we at least have a general idea of time. We’ll split the bread and eat half now, and hold onto the rest in case they don’t feed us regularly. We need to ration the water, so try to keep your sips shallow.”

    Across the cavern, he just stared at her. She continued, “The area in the ceiling that they opened to drop down the food is the same spot where they dropped me through, so that might be where they always open it. We should watch that and confirm a pattern. In the meantime, I think we should set up our sleeping area as far from that as we can get, and definitely put our toileting spot as close to it as we can—”

    “Excuse me, our what?” Zuko snapped.

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    When the rescue doesn’t come as quickly as it should, Katara and Zuko find themselves in the prison cave below Ba Sing Se for days.

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