Slayer meets God-King of the Primodium

This would be a fic call-to-arms! I was chatting to jen_nsync_landl about my current default fic prompt of Buffy-Illyria friendship + optional dragon(s) and realised I should probably make it a bit more public, rather than moping around thinking no one wants to write Buffy-Illyria friendship fic. So, whoever fancies a challenge, I charge you thus! (Maybe I'll try and write something short this evening too. Need to have tea first.)

Need inspiration? Check out stultiloquentia's marvellous Do the Next Thing

In other news, fic fear: I'm a bit worried I want to write something novel-length to come after An Exercise in Futility. It seems a very silly project to begin, especially writing at the speed I do, which, let's face it, is not fast. And I still haven't done the sequel to Brand New Day, though I've written all the actiony part, because it wants to be this massive lump of misery!convo, which I'm not sure I have the energy for. I really need an extra layer of plot to add some action to what is essentially some boring exposition and reconciliation of people's feelings. Does anyone have a good strategy for working out how to find that?

I actually did it!

Apparently I wasn't kidding about the Buffy-Illyra+dragon shenanigans! I bring you approximately 2000 words of PG fic, involving Buffy and Illyria and a dragon and introductory Spuffiness. With shenanigans possibly giving way to angst a little bit, but not so very far! Also a title snatched from the lines of T.S. Eliot... (The image actually encapsulates several aspects of the fic and reflects my feeling towards it, but, anyway, I apologise.) Set a couple of years after the end of A5, following a canon that puts Buffy in Rome.

Warnings: None especially, but references to death and panic attacks.

Buffy and Illyria go for pizza. There's a dragon.

( The Last Fingers of Leaf. )