20 First Lines

[lea_hazel]

Rules: List the first line(s) of your last twenty stories. See if you find any patterns. Tag ten authors to pass it along.

I was tagged by @faejilly​ and it seemed like a fun way to celebrate both the Year of Lots of Writing and the fact that I just looked back at all my accounts to sum up my word counts for December, and I did a lot better than I feared.

I’m only doing ten, though. It already goes way back into August.

1. General Ayalah's estate at Merrotayne was as unlike the Ajah home as it was possible for two Revairian great houses to be. (this one was done just last night.)


2. [REDACTED FOR YULETIDE REASONS.]


3. [REDACTED FOR YULETIDE REASONS.]


4. "She will be around in short order," he had been told, and nothing more, until eventually a passing footman took pity on him and escorted him to an arbor within sight of the palace stables.


5. Jarrod was an easy man to manage, after all.


6. Sacred Dawn was much as she remembered it being.


7. The Old Palace, she had often heard, was really more a castle than a palace, built like a fortress, a defensive structure, not an edifice to wealth and privilege.


8. Winter was just starting to fade into spring when Verity first took Lyta down into the city proper.


9. No one expected kuria Hekate to appear at the fourth Harrowing.


10. Falling in love with Breden Reaper was a study in disappointment.



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