Fan Fiction: Stories 31–40

Dr. Gilbert's son writes letters to a father who is never quite where the letters expect him to be.

The younger Charny brother carries a message through a countryside that no longer recognizes the authority he's riding under.

An ordinary National Guardsman assigned to watch the royal family finds his convictions tested by the people he's been taught to see as enemies.

In the final months before everything ends, a woman who has spent her whole life in service to the crown takes stock of what she actually believes.

Maurice's closest friend writes verse for every occasion, serious and absurd alike, until the occasions stop being ones he can joke about.

The tanner at the center of the conspiracy against the Republic has convinced himself of his own righteousness. This is how.

The Temple's watchful informer didn't start out believing she'd betray anyone, she just kept making small, reasonable choices.

Before Maurice, before the conspiracy, a young woman married a man twice her age for reasons that had nothing to do with love, until they did.

Marguerite's lady-in-waiting stands guard on the worst night of her mistress's life, and has her own account of what she saw.

La Mole's other lover isn't willing to simply disappear from this story, she has her own claim on what happened, and her own price for silence.