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A PI looking for a missing kid in a city of monsters is met with a fae challenge. If she wishes to find the boy, she must endure the touch of fire and ice...
A short story featuring temperature play and a prejudiced woman learning to do better.
Genres:
Pairings: F-F
Heat Level: 5
Romantic Content: 1
Ending: Click here to reveal
Character Identities: Bisexual, Lesbian
Protagonist 1 Age: 26-35
Protagonist 2 Age: Ageless/Immortal
Tropes: The Bargain, Cultural Differences, Enemies to Lovers, Second Chances
Word Count: 2900
Setting: City
Languages Available: English
The job seemed simple enough. Track down a missing child and return him to his parents. Missing children always tugged the heart, but for an investigator who was willing to deal with the others, nothing stayed missing for long. A complex web of barter and debts brought witch-forged spells to her hands. When a missing person’s case landed at her door, she activated the seeking spell, and always found the answer she needed. The answer was there this time too. But this once knowing the answer might not do any good.
Monster District
Off limits to humans, the District was the magic-twisted home of creatures from nightmare. Not just witches, but fae, long, rakshasa, shape changers, and much more. Rumors even told of a child of Anansi who had taken up residence in the forsaken place. Now, Selma stood on the edge of the District...