Swan songs
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No such thing as gods by aster_risk
Fandoms: Mission: Impossible (Movies), Mission: Impossible
04 Aug 2023
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The story goes that Zeus came to Leda in the form of a swan on her wedding night, and her children hatched from eggs.
In this story, Leda breaks the swan's long neck. She cooks its flesh and devours it. She has no husband nor want of one; she sleeps in the passenger seat of a red Corvette, with three passports in her hand.
All the same, the bird eggs hatch.
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- Part 1 of Swan songs
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The stories we tell ourselves by aster_risk
Fandoms: Mission: Impossible (Movies), Mission: Impossible
11 Aug 2023
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Conversations in the safe house in Nafplio, prior to the birth of Helen.
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- Part 2 of Swan songs
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Friends on the other side by aster_risk
Fandoms: Mission: Impossible (Movies), Mission: Impossible
05 Aug 2023
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This is the custom: one hero ventures to the Underworld, seeking the guidance of another.
Two women meet in a traincar and talk about Death.
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- Part 3 of Swan songs
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Pomegranate seeds by aster_risk
Fandoms: Mission: Impossible (Movies), Mission: Impossible
29 Aug 2023
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On the sixth anniversary of Ilsa's death, springtime comes to Greece. She is surprised to see it.
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- Part 4 of Swan songs
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Deductive reasoning by aster_risk
Fandoms: Mission: Impossible (Movies), Mission: Impossible
14 Apr 2024
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The family who raised her did not treat love like a zero-sum but a well that never empties. And so, the myths collapse.
(One day Ilsa will tell Helen the story of how she was conceived. How she hatched from an egg as though made to fly. How her mother put a gun to the head of a holy swan.)
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- Part 5 of Swan songs