Saida Gets Eaten

Saida is Arilin’s cousin, one of the titular protagonists of the novel Saida & Autumn. Canonically, she’s been given a curse that not only brings her back from the dead but has given her a bit of an unfortunate attraction to situations where she risks ending up as prey. The novel explores this occasionally hoary macrophile trope seriously, getting into the subjects of taboo desires, trauma, and consent.

These vignettes, however, lean into the hoariness.

I refer to these as “non-canon,” since they involve Saida meeting characters from other milieus and settings that would never cross, and many have versions of Saida that conflict with the “real” one in Saida & Autumn. On the other hand, some of the vignettes suggest they’re all dreams—maybe even dreams shared by different versions of Saida across multiple realities. I don’t know if this will ever “mean” something, story-wise, but never say never.

While the stories aren’t in a strict order, some of them build a little on previous ones. The most recent ones are at the top, and the serial publishing date (up at the top left of the page) will be updated to reflect the newest additions. They have their own tagging so they show up in the story index as independent bits.

Saida Gets Eaten

Arilin Thorferra

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