Cold Light Melting - I
Author: Amber Michelle
Rating: T
Genre: introspective?
Warnings: n/a
AU/Canon: slightly AU.
Pairing/Characters: most of the Kou family, a few OCs.
Words: 3628

Prompt: June 2009 - still waters run deep (1500 word min.)
Previous Installments:
+ Prelude: A Kinder Season

Notes: Spoilers up to book 14, but I ignore some of the stuff that happened, or at least don't acknowledge it - maybe that makes this slightly AU. We're pretending the stuff at the very end didn't happen.


( There were few things Reishin loathed as much as clan meetings. )

Melodrama
By: Amber Michelle
Prompt: vicious
Character(s): Reishin
Words: 587

For: imanewme (original request post is here)


( All these people knew how to do was whine. )

A Kinder Season
Author: Amber Michelle
Rating: K+
Genre: .... gen.
Warnings: n/a
AU/Canon: canon.
Pairing/Characters: Reishin
Words: 1164

Prompt: #42 - life and death (250 words min.)
Notes: this is like a pick-up note to Cold Light Melting, which will appear some way or other as soon as I can get off my butt and write it. :D

Cross-posted at saiun_challenge.


( Reishin would never be able to show his face in the capitol again. )

The Worst Kind of Fool
Author: Amber Michelle
Rating: K
Genre: introspective
Warnings: spoilers for book 13.
AU/Canon: canon.
Pairing/Characters: Reishin
Words: 300

Prompt: fool (300 words max)
Notes: n/a


( Yuri was right; Kurou should have been the one to take the exam. )

(prelim entry, too lazy to print it out properly.)

Vanity
Author: Amber Michelle
Rating: T, alas.
Genre: not romance. :P
Warnings: innuendo? But that goes without saying.
AU/Canon: canon.
Pairing/Characters: Reishin, Kouchou
Words: 1092

Prompt: frost (250 word min.)
Summary:

Notes: The concept is similar to Minerva's last entry, but I've been thinking about this since re-watching the Presented Scholars arc again. XD; Comments on that at the end.

I abuse geography with impunity, and I owe the name Menekhet to Jacqueline Carey.


( It was his vanity that required her undivided attention for a night he would not be present for. )

Insufferable
Author: Amber Michelle
Rating: T
Genre: fluff?
Warnings: what plot?
AU/Canon: canon.
Pairing/Characters: Yuri, Reishin
Words: 535

Summary: Life with Reishin isn't much different from what it was before.
Prompt: light

Notes: I probably will tweak this a little bit if there are technical problems, but right now I'm exhausted, and I don't want to miss the deadline.


( Morning came too soon for Yuri. )

A Long Time Coming
Author: Amber Michelle
Rating: K
Genre: gen
Warnings: n/a
AU/Canon: canon
Pairing: n/a
Words: 300

Summary: Shuurei meets her other uncle for the first time.
Prompt: beginnings

Note: First public Saiunkoku fic. Not edited much because if I wait, I'll never post it. Set an indeterminate time after book 13, I suppose.


( Awkward~~~ )

Prelim post, but I probably won't change it. :D