title: a la belle étoile
prompt: #99 at stayintheroom, newly planted flowers, a dried up river, mortal? and "growth" for women are awesome.
pairing: chiela/terasu, pipra/nikolao
word count: 2,809
rating: r
a/n: this is an excerpt from my original big bang fic, a sci fi space adventure set basically in the present, give or take a few years, on an alien world. the characters involved are fighting in an intergalactic war with worse odds that russian roulette. some of them have super powers. some of them can shape shift. all of them are running out of time.


( They make their way to the edge of the camp - just the fact that they make it surprises the hell out of Chiela, a combination of Sprita’s freaky-ass insect radar, foreseeing ships before they pass over, a liberal application of Nikolao’s shadows, and a whole fucking lot of luck - traveling through a dried up river bed, trying to make as little noise as they can, which… well, they don’t get caught and that’s the only thing that really matters, not how gracefully they do it - believe her, it’s not very gracefully, especially not when one of them is blind. )

Because two Big Bangs aren't enough, I felt the need to sign up for yet another challenge. These can totally be used in conjunction though! That's what I'm telling myself at least. Writing prompts revolving around women being awesome. There is no bad here.

001. Strength	002. Survival	003. Friendship	004. Consent	005. Pain
006. Gentle	007. Wisdom	008. Learning	009. Sister	010. Family
011. Joy	012. Power	013. Trust	014. Success	015. Sexy
016. Adventure	017. Dreams	018. Alone	019. Games	020. Growth
021. Velvet	022. Silk	023. Steel	024. Choice	025. Fear
026. Religion	027. Freedom	028. Music	029. School	030. Taste
031. Community	032. New	033. Safe	034. Culture	035. Home
036. A phone call	037. Art	038. Water	039. Color	040. Danger
041. Noise	042. Quiet	043. Music	044. Boys	045. Children
046. Car	047. Super Heroine	048. Warrior	049. Politics	050. Writer's Choice