Crossworks 2025: *Lost (and Found)*

[graycardinal]

[Aside to sanguinity: you clearly need to see this.]

Now, then.

The collection for crossworks is live, and for once I'm going to get the thank-you post up in ridiculously good time. There is a great deal of excellent work in this exchange - I may in fact do a recs post here in a bit - but in the meantime: someone's written me a genuinely delightful tale that takes full advantage of the "mix any two things I've mentioned" element of the exchange, and that would be this:

Lost (and Found)
Fandoms: Young Wizards - Duane; Valdemar - Lackey
Rating: all ages
Category: gen
Warnings: none
Words: ~2200
Characters: Dairine Callahan, original Valdemaran Companion
Additional Tags: crossover, interspecies friendship, portal fantasy, worldgates

"I'll have you know I'm not a horse girl."
"Then it's a good thing I'm not a horse."

Suffice to say that the author knows both these canons well, and that the blending is beautifully done. If you're familiar with both of them, it should be clear just from the summary that they've got the character voices down perfectly, and it keeps right on going from there.

Comments

[sanguinity]

Thank you for the rec, I enjoyed it!

(Why the odd URL on the link, though?)