Femslash Ex Stories: Original Fiction and Black Panther

I know it’s Saturday but the collection only opened late last night, and I have two stories that are too good to wait a week to read and likely to be of general interest to many here. You can check out the entire collection by fandom here, or just original works here.

I got two wonderful stories for the same prompt, Military Officer Desperate To Redeem Her Honor/Loyal Subordinate Trying To Keep Her Alive. Both have fascinating worldbuilding, nicely structured plots, great characters, and ALL the military camaraderie and loyalty one could possibly want. I hope you’ll read them both, as they’re both well worth reading and quite different. (Also it’s always fun to read two different takes on the same prompt.)

Loved I not Honor more .

Ten Percent for Luck.

I haven’t had time to read much beyond my own stories, but I did read an absolutely delightful Shuri/Original Female Character story, “Citation Flirtation,” with banter that could have come straight out of Black Panther. T’Challa plays a charming supporting role.

Quick Hindi question

Can anyone give me a Hindi word/phrase that would mean something like beast's bane (as in wolfsbane), and a crack at an English spelling? The actual use is to put an animal to sleep (literally to sedate it, not to kill it), so something along those lines would also work. I'm looking for something that could plausibly be the name of an herb. Could also be tiger's bane.