"Once Upon a Time” Lasts Forever

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Here are a number of optional details... and yes, they are optional. But I figure better to have too much info, from which you can pick and choose, than not enough.

I will endeavor to expand this with some more ideas within the next week or so

Dear Exchange Author, thank you so much for picking up my prompts! I hope you will enjoy working on the one you select. This [long!] set of optional details is meant mainly for inspiration if you get stuck or if you want to add some extra bells and whistles to your creation to personalize it for me.

I'm quite content with both straight and gay relationships. I do tend to ship the canon relationships, unless it's a character who has had no clear relationships shown in the story. I'm not comfortable with sexual relationships shown in children under the age of, say, 14 or so, and even then it's better in context (teens with other teens or in a societal setting where girls expect to marry by 16-18 anyway).

A Slip of the Heart (3775 words) by opalmatrix
Fandom: The Dalemark Quartet - Diana Wynne Jones
Rating: General Audiences
Notes: Written for the inaugural round of The Exchange at Fic Corner
Summary: "Happily ever after" doesn't always come easy, especially for the guttersnipe from Holand and the miller's daughter from Ansdale.