This is an AMAZING fic - I have no idea who you are! But thank you so much! I'm awfully sorry this comment is so late, I was away and have literally just got back. (SO tantalising to know they'd been posted and have no internet access, argh!). Anyway, this was an absolute joy to read - I was having to suppress the urge to shriek out loud with joy at the rhythm of the prose. I love AUs in this fandom with all my heart, they seem to work so well, and this is no exception - there's so much going on, but it's all perfectly controlled and held in balance. I found it incredibly moving to read, and I really didn't want it to end! Thank you for making the ficathon so fantastic for me.

Edited to add VOWELS (aaah, typing in haste) and also to change my mind and say maybe I do suspect your identity, maybe. Honestly, this fic! It makes me shivery. I love your Aumerle IMMENSELY. I love the way you play with this whole universe of quotation and allusion - it works brilliantly.

OKAY now I have just read it for the third time, and I'm sure many more will follow. It's the kind of fic that repays many readings, which is what I like best. So impossible to pick out individual bits from something so perfect, but I have to just say that I absolutely crumpled at "He closes his heart." There's a whole world in this story.