If you can make one heap of all your winnings / And risk it in one turn of pitch-and-toss, / And lose, and start again from your beginnings / And never breathe a word about your loss... (Twelfth story in the "If" series)

Sutcliff, Rosemary – The Eagle of the Ninth. Britain's winters are cold and wet. (But the fire in the hearth is warm.) TwoShot, movie-verse- after Marcus and Esca's return.

A kind sort of face, it was, under the grime and weather-darkening. Not the least bit handsome, but with a quiet gentleness about it that made one feel oddly as though they could trust their life into the keeping of his hands. Justin/Girl Like a White Flower

book verse, tome 1 : recueil autour de Marcus et Esca, et un peu Cottia :: 1er volet : En quatre murs. 2e: Dégoûtés. 3e: L'anneau et les fers. 4e: Estime de soi. 5e: Dans les brumes du Nord. 6e: Brisés une fois. MàJ, 7e: Une vie paisible. 8e: Au rythme des saisons. 9e: Cottia, entière. 10e: Chutes et élévations. ::surtout gen, légèrement slashy, un peu d'het canon::

Three's a crowd? Marcus and Esca dispute the point. A brief sequel for Rosemary Sutcliff's The Eagle of the Ninth. (Not slash)