New Job

Functionally the start of the series, though there's stuff before this, Ri'kara gets the offer of work from the Judicator she is currently working for and decides to accept. Unfortunately, key details aren't told to her until after she accepts, and she wonders exactly what she's getting into. At the same time, she's starting to draw the connection between an old, toxic relationship and the behaviour of Ialdir, who she considers a friend.------This is part of an AU in which Alarak has to go back to Artanis for help after Covert Ops in order to fix a revolution within the Tal'darim partially spurred on by the loss of the emotional influence that Amon had over them until his death. I only write short, self-contained stories within this AU despite having way too much in my head about it, and they will not be posted in order. The timeline of this AU spans from a little after the end of Covert Ops to around 175-200 years afterwards.