Threshold
MistressEast
Summary:
You won, and still, fate twists the knife one last time.
The train car rumbles, tilting as though snaking around a bend.
That’s not how things are supposed to work. Uncrossing his long, black-clad legs, the man stands, and his dark, trailing ponytail swings behind him with the motion. And I have been persuaded to give you another chance.
In an effort to end the meddling of the metaverse once and for all, Akira makes a deal, but traversing the unstable barrier between perception and reality is more treacherous than any threat he faced last time. Alone, without guidance, and confronted by mysteries on a cosmic scale, he can only turn to Akechi for help, despite their previous tragic parting. What awaits them in this new timeline, however, is unlike anything they could have imagined, and as they unravel Akira’s dire mission, they’ll have to abandon everything they thought they knew about the metaverse, each other, and themselves.
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Summary
Several thousand years ago, King Yaldaboath purged the Unseelie from the Summer Kingdom and sealed the Barrier, permanently separating the two realms and sparing the Seelie from the Darkening, a wasting disease spread by the Unseelie. The Seelie lived in peace under the King's rule until, mysteriously, the Darkening began to return, ravaging outlying towns and stirring panic everywhere.
Tucked away in the Summer Court, Goro has more immediate concerns: pleasing his cold and duplicitous father, maintaining his toothless and friendly facade, and hiding his own treasonous aspirations. The arrival of an enigmatic new page certainly doesn't help things. Akira is magnetic and unusually interested in him and Goro finds himself increasingly distracted. When the Darkening comes to their front door, Goro and Akira set out to discover the cause of the outbreak, but the answers they find throw everything about the world as they know it into question.
Shelves: Persona 5
- Site:
- archiveofourown.org
- Words:
- 87,646
- Status:
- Completed