Queen of Shadows

[maplemood]

AKA my shows-up-fifteen-minutes-years-late-with-Starbucks Queen's Thief fic that I tried to start...oh, some time last year and never got to quite gel until a few days ago. I think I've got around four, maybe five versions of this buried in my "Bits & Pieces" file, so it's a huge relief to finally get it to the point where I feel like it works, mostly, and is, apart from everything else, finished.

Queen of Shadows (Queen's Thief): Under the Thief’s eyes shadow and stone had become flesh again; Attolia hadn’t felt her own body for some time before then, and she couldn’t stop feeling it for a long time afterwards.