New Heyer story: "Natural"

[resonant]

Continuing my trend of only writing in fandoms with twelve or fewer members, I've posted a new story to my website, based on Georgette Heyer's novel The Foundling.

Natural
Gilly/Gideon -- NC-17 -- 3,300 words
Once again, Gilly fixes everything.
Warnings, if any (highlight to read): No particular warning.

Thanks to astolat and Tradescant for beta.

Comments

[copracat]

I adore Heyer's daffy heroes and heroines. They're just the right sort and this is perfectly pitched and gorgeously sexy.

A yard you say. How... magnificent.

[resonant]

They're all kinds of fun, aren't they? I totally fell in love with Gilly; he's the best Heyer character I've met yet, even better (to my taste) than Sophy and Hugo, fantastic as they are.

The Lexicon Balatronicum (my extracanonical source for period slang) doesn't define 'yard,' only uses it in the definitions of other words, which suggests to me that it would have been seen as a fairly neutral term. But then at the beginning of Friday's Child someone refers to a sword as "his yard of tin," and I just burst out laughing!