7Snowflakes in the Wind » RotG oneshots from the 100 Themes Challenge; no pairings, probably mostly angst; character and genre tags reflect the newest chapter only. Six: He's been lying to them through his pearly white teeth for years, and they've never realised. [Voice pt2 from the Guardians' perspective]

4Arctic Turn or, Why You Should Not Speak To Strangers. Jack attempts to talk to Artemis, Goddess of the Hunt and Wild Animals. She doesn't take it well, and Jack has to get acquainted with feathers. Many feathers. No pairings, T for language.

3 Empty Spaces It's midwinter in the Northern Hemisphere, but while the Arctic sun has set for the next few months and Christmas only days away, no snow has fallen anywhere. Character death, no pairings.

1 Perdition She doesn't cry. Not while she's still within the walls of Science, not while She or any other robot is still watching her, judging, evaluating, testing. It's not until she reaches the edge of that endless wheatfield, crests the small hill vainly attempting to hide the horizon from her view, that she falls to her knees and sobs.

3 The Open Sky For once you have tasted flight, you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been and there you will long to return. -Leonardo Da Vinci

6 Aside They'd expected the amiable goatherd that had left Ordon not long ago, the one who always had a sunny grin plastered on his face and nearly cried when a goat had to be killed. Instead, they'd gotten a young man with the scars of a soldier three times his age, some foreign warrior with sharp eyes and sharper weapons who hadn't so much as smiled once during the weeks he'd been there.

4 Failure Oneshot. He was ashamed to admit it, but all he felt was relief. And pain, of course, but he could ignore that, albeit with difficulty.