Strike the Stone

A Bitterblue (of the Graceling Trilogy by Kristin Cashore) Fanfic. After Saf goes to The Dells with the other explorers, Bitterblue has doubts even though he had left on good terms with her. She struggles to decide whether she should wait for him to return, if he ever does, or to move on. A year passes with no word from Saf, so when the striking graceling stranger with one gray eye and the other blue-green appears at her court, vying for her affections, she is inexplicably drawn to him. They grow very close, until, two years after his departure, Saf returns from the Dells. Between her fight for love and trying to fix her broken queendom, Bitterblue struggles to stay sane in the crazy world of the Graced. {Each chapter will be published in parts. If a chapter seems abnormally short, that's because I'm not done with it yet! You will know a chapter is completely done when I post the next chapter. Sorry if that's inconvenient for you.}