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Title: bitter roots, sweet fruit
Fandom: Tortall: Protector of the Small
Pairing/Characters: Kel, gen
Rating: G
Word Count: 6306
Summary: Kel subs(titute teachers) for Padraig as training master for a year.
Notes: Despite having first read First Test back in 2001, I have never read a PotS fic before. I have no idea what the fanon or common tropes might be, so if this is an inferior version of every other PotS fic out there, I apologise. Kind of. Honestly, when there’s a trope I like, I tend to be very happy to read 8 billion fics renditions of it (and then I mourn the dearth of fics containing that trope. Only 8 billion! How have I survived this paucity!?). So maybe I don’t actually apologise at all.

( bitter roots, sweet fruit )