Ficlet: Saltwater Echoes (Mirage - Louise Cooper)

[thisbluespirit]

Hello, hello, here's another ficlet for what I happened to be reading/watching/otherwise consuming (that I've been doing sometimes to kickstart me writing again). This one is for a very obscure 1980s standalone fantasy novel, the main other of Louise Cooper's books that I've retained a fondness for - it always felt like there was a lot left to be played with in the setting of Haven, and all its had eroded away from it, but I don't think it's connected to any of her other books or anything.

Anyway, a coda for 100fandoms prompt #25 salt:

Saltwater Echoes (631 words) by thisbluespirit
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Mirage - Louise Cooper
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: DiMag/Simorh (Mirage)
Characters: DiMag (Mirage), Simorh (Mirage), Gamora (Mirage)
Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Coda, Loss, Grief/Mourning, Community: 100fandoms, Ficlet
Summary: Salt is for healing as well as for bitterness.

(I don't imagine it'd make much sense without having read the book, and I'm the only person I've ever met who's read it, so, lol, but nevertheless I always thought there SHOULD be fic, so I can feel accomplished, I suppose!)

Comments

[thisbluespirit]

Yes, that's the one! No official ebook, then, I should have said, clearly! XD (These pirates get everywhere... I see there's the first three Indigo books and some of the rest of the saga, too.)

[theseatheseatheopensea]

XD Which ones would you recommend?

[thisbluespirit]

Oh, I think you might enjoy Indigo! They take a while to get going (the first book is fine, but it is in many ways all prologue!) and the second book is a little more horror-y than I like, but the rest are all v interesting in different ways.

They are set in what seems to be a sort of geomagnetically reversed version of our world, and are a Pandora's box retelling at base - Princess Anghara releases a bunch of demons from their prison and is doomed to walk the world unaging until she has defeated each demon, so each book has a different setting facing a different demon, and I like all the different settings, but most importantly, she picks up a companion on this quest, who is a telepathic outcast wolf called Grimya. (And, not to be spoilery, but basically, endgame relationship is Indigo & Grimya BFFs forever, and Grimya is the best, and also nothing is exactly as it seems about the premise. idk know what you will make of the rest, but I am pretty sure you will like Grimya! <3)

(I'm reccing Indigo, yes. Why rec one book, when you can rec 8? But some of her later books were kind of weird sometimes, and I've never been so into the Time Master ones as other people were, although I do like them as well, and they're her most famous ones.)

Indigo Saga:

1. Nemesis
2. Inferno
3. Infanta
4. Nocturne
5. Troika
6. Avatar
7. Revenant
8. Aisling

[theseatheseatheopensea]

Ohh, thank you!! *adds to list*