Fics like something borrowed, something blue

Below every world, every Otherland, every place where magic leaks into the world and makes new forms of people, there is a Firstland. Every Firstland is the purest font of its own magic, the most concentrated and the most boundless, too purely magical to live in, and yet too connected to the magic to drift away forever. For the Faelands, which sit so closely against the mortal world that the Firstland itself can nearly brush the place on only third-degree magic, the Firstland is Dream. The concept of Firstlands annoys the hell out of Rocky and Adrian. It's less concerning for Colt and Jody, even a source of inspiration for them. "You can't be too mad about it," Grace tells Rocky and Adrian, after everything is over, curled up in a pile of overlapping limbs and bleeding-together magic. "Saved the world, after all." "The Firstlands didn't save shit," Rocky denies vehemently. "We saved the world." "Yes, you did," Adrian laughs, cold hands gentle with both of them. "So stop complaining." --- Or: a young woman is told to take her child, or a changeling. She takes both. Decades later, that choice, and a whole bunch of love, saves every world.

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