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Irrefutable Proof by Rosavalda_Freya
Fandoms: A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin, A Song of Ice and Fire & Related Fandoms
21 Apr 2025
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Satin was aching too, gods was he ever, but in the weeks since they left Castle Black that had become the norm. His thighs throbbed and cramped from the day’s ride. And the day before’s and the day before that’s also. A dull persistent ache had settled in his chest too, and it followed him throughout the day. Quickly, he had fallen into a new routine. Ready to march at dawn, don’t think about Jon lying dead in a pool of his own blood, mount up on his horse, travel south for hours until it was time to stop, don’t remember how cold he was under your hands as you stitched his wounds closed, dismount and try to mask the pulsing pain in his body, help set up camp, serve supper, don’t think of how the water you washed him with ran red with blood, attend Jon at war councils and meetings, run various errands, don’t think about his lips under yours cold as ice and unmoving, massage Jon's leg, then pass out beside him heavy like steel to do it all again the next day.
(Jon and Satin begin the march to retake Winterfell and settle into a new normal. But Satin can only outrun his own emotions for so long, no matter how hard he tries to push them away and focus just on Jon)
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- Part 10 of A Slow Burning Fire, Tended With Care
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25 Jun 2026
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Once for Sorrow, Once for Joy by Rosavalda_Freya
Fandoms: A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin, A Song of Ice and Fire & Related Fandoms
04 Apr 2025
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Satin could barely see Jon through his tears, welling up in his eyes unbidden and streaking down his face as they were, burning tracks into his skin as they were. Fool, what good are your tears now? What service will they do him? The logic didn’t matter. The tears came anyway, spilling from his swollen eyes, clinging to his chin before splattering down onto Jon’s unmoving chest. Satin choked on a sob. Jon was dead. Cold. Unmoving beneath his hands. Tomorrow, the men would come down to the ice cells where they were and take his body up to the courtyard and to his pyre. But tonight, Jon rested on a palette surrounded by ice, bare before him for Satin to prepare.
(In the aftermath of the Mutiny at Castle Black, Jon lies dead. Satin must prepare his body for his pyre. He washes him and tends him with care as he weeps for what was lost. It's his duty, after all. It's what he owes Jon)
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- Part 7 of A Slow Burning Fire, Tended With Care
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25 Jun 2026
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Old Habits by Rosavalda_Freya
Fandoms: A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin, A Song of Ice and Fire & Related Fandoms
22 Mar 2025
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Surely, this was it. He was in Jon’s bed, for Seven’s sake. 'I would offer you Ghost but he is not here to warm you', Jon had said, leaving behind what was unsaid to hover like a specter at the end of the sentence – But I am. It could mean nothing else. And yet, Jon laid next to him as still as the grave. He did not curl up behind Satin and slowly run his hand up his flank with greedy seeking fingers. He did not take Satin by the wrist and move it down to his laces. He just laid there. Perhaps Jon needed him to initiate it? Perhaps he clung to his honor too desperately to be the one to start this? Had Jon been waiting for Satin to touch him all these months because he was too good a man to ask for it? He wouldn’t even mind, Satin realized with a start, if Jon wanted to have him, if Jon wanted Satin to keep him warm.
(A cold snap has settled over the Wall, cold like Satin has never known. He spends his nights shivering alone until a solution is offered. Huddling for warmth is a normal enough thing in the North but it presents a change in the delicate balance built between Lord Commander and Steward as old habits haunt Satin and his understanding of himself and the world.)
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- Part 3 of A Slow Burning Fire, Tended With Care
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25 Jun 2026
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Pale Shadow by Rosavalda_Freya
Fandoms: A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin, A Song of Ice and Fire & Related Fandoms
17 Mar 2025
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Satin wondered vaguely if he was being hunted. Had Ghost taken the measure of him and deemed him so little a threat that he might as well be prey? Had the beast seen fit to make a meal of him? The red eyes that followed him did not seem to gleam with hunger or ill intent but how would Satin know if they did? It was men Satin knew, not wolves. He had enigmatic eyes, that much Satin could say. Unreadable eyes, he thought, like his master.
(Ghost has taken to following Satin around Castle Black as he performs his duties. Satin isn't sure about it at first but perhaps the stoic direwolf has a softer side than he presents. Perhaps his master is much the same.)
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- Part 2 of A Slow Burning Fire, Tended With Care
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25 Jun 2026
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Tending the Fire by Rosavalda_Freya
Fandoms: A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin, A Song of Ice and Fire & Related Fandoms
13 Mar 2025
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“My lord, is there anything else I can do for you this evening?”
“No, be at rest, Satin.”
He is hurting, Satin thought, hurting and too proud to ask for help. No, not too proud, too good a man to ask me for help. Satin had known a great many men, but few, if any, like Jon Snow. He would choke to death on his own pain before he could ask me to help alleviate it.
“How can I be at rest, my lord, when you are suffering?”
(Jon Snow is too good a man to ask for Satin's help in this, no matter how severe the pain in his wounded leg grows. Satin watches him struggle for too long before deciding to take matters into his own hands. He tends the fire in the heart of his Lord Commander's chamber and tends his wounds with the same care.)
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- Part 1 of A Slow Burning Fire, Tended With Care
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25 Jun 2026