Ashes in His Mouth

Fanfiction
Title:	Ashes in His Mouth
Author(s):	aly
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Genre(s):	gen
Fandom(s):	Hercules: The Legendary Journeys
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Ashes in His Mouth is a Hercules: The Legendary Journeys story by aly.

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Aly has filled this story to the brim, so that within its superficially short narrative frame you're living Greco-Roman history, the fall of an empire, the death of a culture, one man's mortal triumph...That sounds pompous, but it's a gloriously epic fic, beautiful, detailed--a sharp, painful nexus of micro- and macrocosm that makes rec'cers like me wax tres lyrical. I can't help it, though. It's just so glorious and tragic, a story that gives Ares the kind of strength the shows never did, a nobility that's deflated, human and just wow. "With the gaudy paraphernalia of the spring festival brightening the sparsely furnished sanctuary in the temple on the Capitol Hill, Mars usually found himself keenly anticipating the renewal of hostilities with Rome’s more restive and less respectful neighbours. The daily spectacle of his priests, leaping and dancing through the streets of Rome heated his blood, and he prowled the lonely battlefields-to-be, visualising glorious victories. This year, a shadow was cast by the death of he’d granted only days before, subduing the pleasure and his spirits." I'm going to start swooning again.