Title: In the Land of the Sun
Date/Theme: January 6th: Valsa de Eurydice / Samba de Orfeu
Series: Illusion of Memory (an Interactive Fiction set in Valkyrie Profile's world.)
Characters/Pairing: Raeger, Judas (
myaru's boy) (Both are original characters.)
Rating: PG-13 (better safe than sorry!)
Summary: Between being mistaken for a boy on a regular basis, getting lost in the muddle of a seaport town, and being firmly squashed under the thumb of her vampire
slave-driver captor associate, Raeger's probably going to go insane.
A/N: In which I try an experiment: actually introducing the situation before plunging into the muddle, for the sake of people unfamiliar with the characters. Unfortunately, that means this is rather long (around 8k sans notes) so, uh. Not very light reading. ;_; THE PROSE, MA, IT STINGS AND HURTS. Also, THIS NEEDS A BETTER TITLE. And heavy editing, but that's a given! The only way this relates to the theme is that the music, to my ears, sounded appropriate as BG music for a seaport, which is where this happens. Er. Yes, that's the lamest ever.( It would take an exceptionally dull-witted individual /not/ to realize that they weren't local to the area, but not a single person turned more than a token glance their way. Raeger thought this was extraordinary, but after they'd passed the midget juggling dead weasels on a street corner, she supposed that the people here had seen things far more fascinating than the foreign-looking nobleman with his page in tow. )