Home Is Where Your Teeth Sink

by Lamia of the Dark

Drabble. An exploration of identity and how Zoya and Nikolai define themselves. (Written for the 100 Ships Challenge, prompt #100: gold.)

~ Home Is Where Your Teeth Sink ~

She is the tiger and the dragon and the storm, all rolled into one, and they are her. She is Ravka's first Grisha queen. Sankta Zoya. The Dragon Queen. The titles are important in a different way than the other things she is made up of; to name something is to give it power.

He is a pirate, a demon, the too-clever fox, a shining golden soul, a former king, now a prince-consort, and he is trying very hard to reconcile all of those things into one, but the thing that matters most to him is that he is hers.

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