Fics like Something Practical, Something Beautiful

Ten years post canon in an AU where Claudia is Ezran's High Mage, she still has some trouble with who she is and who she used to be, unsure of how Ezran really feels about her despite her no longer using Dark Magic and being a sun mage. Claudiez AU. - “You don’t do it anymore, though,” he insisted. Claudia gave up pretending she was working at all, laying the quill down and rubbing her temples again. “I know, and I don’t want to, but I never forgot it all. Every time I look at a creature I remember what you can do with it. Every time I go into the forest I remember where I had to forage what from. I can’t enjoy cute things or anything without thinking like that. Not anymore.” “Hmm.” He didn’t disapprove of her, which was a much bigger relief than she’d anticipated. Honestly, he’d never been the judgy one, yet she still braced for criticism and rejection, judgment she couldn’t argue that she hadn't earned. Ezran brightened up. “Okay, I want to show you something.” “If it’s another friend, I’m sure they’re sweet, but-” “A place,” he stated. “It’s outside the castle. Maybe it’s somewhere you’ve been before, but I can recontextualize it for you. Make it something new.”

Fics like Something Practical, Something Beautiful

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