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Title: why I've spent my whole life trying to put it into words
Fandom: Magic Knight Rayearth
Length: 233 words
Prompt: fic_promptly: Magic Knight Rayearth, Clef/Presea, I want to make poems that say right out, plainly / what I mean (Everything by Mary Oliver)
Pairing: Clef/Presea
Other: n/a

Excerpt: The lines are sparse, the descriptions sharp as an edged sword. His handwriting is impeccable.

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Title: because he was he, and I was I
Fandom: Magic Knight Rayearth
Length: 233 words
Prompt: Clef/Presea, iron, for r2chi_too
Pairing: Clef/Presea established
Other: n/a

Excerpt: They had been living together for three months before Presea caught Clef with the iron.

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Title: mistook magic for medicine
Fandom: Magic Knight Rayearth
Length: 352 words
Prompt: comment_fic: Magic Knights Rayearth, Eagle, if he could use magic
Pairing: Eagle gen
Other: n/a

Excerpt: If he could use magic, this war would be done. He sees the way that the mashin move, a second skin to girls unskilled in combat, and he wants that ability.

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Title: ornaments of your house
Fandom: Magic Knight Rayearth
Length: 485 words
Prompt: Given a character/pairing, I will write about them during precanon: Clef/Presea
Pairing: slight Clef/Presea, mostly gen
Other: Makes mention of the (headcanoned) Pharle before Presea, Perdana.

Excerpt: Presea waved, one more time, to Perdana, before she shut the door. She turned around, taking it all in. This house, the one that she'd shared with her master for almost eight years, was only hers now.

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Title: cultural interludes
Fandom: Magic Knight Rayearth
Length: 3441 words
Prompt: n/a
Pairing: Clef/Presea
Other: Written for the lovely chibidl for our first anniversary. ♥ PG-13 for sexual implications.

Excerpt: There were opening of the year ceremonies all across Cephiro on the first day of spring, but as the official Pharle, Presea was always invited to the one at the palace. She never missed; it was one of her favorites. Opening the year always felt like waking from a satisfying nap. The country had rested over the winter, and now it was ready to start moving again. The thought always filled her with energy and excitement. It was time to work again, time for making new and fixing old.

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Title: a sympathy with sounds
Fandom: Magic Knight Rayearth/K-ON! fusion
Length: 623 words
Prompt: my heart is bound to beat right out my untrimmed chest for chibidl's birthdayfic
Pairing: Clef/Presea
Other: The AU in which the Knights + Clef are a band, and Presea is their school sponsor. Blame Polychromatic again.

Excerpt: He doesn't know what to say, so he writes her a song. He spends hours in his room with the door locked, strumming the guitar, and when his father passes by, he pauses to listen and sighs. Oh, young love.

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Title: i hold with those who favor fire
Fandom: Magic Knight Rayearth
Length: 365 words
Prompt: and now in tears we meet again for chibidl's birthdayfic
Pairing: dark!Clef/dark!Presea; dark!Clef/dark!Umi
Other: Set in a dark mirror universe prompted from a Polychromatic curse. PG for violence.

Excerpt: As the opposite, many of his decisions are impulsive and unstudied, but this one isn't. He keeps stepping into her traps, crossing her boundaries, earnest and angry and wanting.

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Title: the healing dark
Fandom: Magic Knight Rayearth
Length: 204 words
Prompt: I threw stones at the stars, but the whole sky fell for chibidl's birthdayfic
Pairing: Clef/Presea established
Other: Set between MKR I and MKR II in a little universe Chi and I have been building for ourselves.

Excerpt: Clef's hand finds Presea's and they sit there in the dark and contemplate the broken constellations, if the sky isn't too clouded. Clef is always straining to see if their enemies have yet arrived, searching for bright objects of unusual shape and size.

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Title: you are my sunshine
Fandom: Magic Knight Rayearth
Length: 431 words
Prompt: here is the scene where you save the day for chibidl's birthdayfic
Pairing: Clef/Presea
Other: This is an AU where Clef and Presea grew up in an orphanage together and Presea is in a wheelchair and Clef is blind. Don't ask why, it's a long story.

Excerpt: He's never brushed his hands across her skin to memorize her face, because he's known it for as long as he can remember.

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Title: only hearts can build a home
Fandom: Magic Knight Rayearth
Length: 475 words
Prompt: turn these diamonds straight back into coal for chibidl's birthdayfic
Pairing: Clef/Presea established
Other: Postcanon; makes use of headcanon.

Excerpt: Clef hadn't lived here in a long while, even if it was the traditional homestead of the Guru, its distance from the palace carefully calculated both for convenience and privacy.

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