A request from @littlestartopaz: Polaris AU set in the American Revolution?
AHAHAHAHA YES. This turned into kind of an ode to Ade North, the woman in command of Polaris, and I have no regrets.
So Polaris is a covert part of the colonial army, stealing patriots out from under the noses of the redcoats. Ade North—North for the star, North for the sky, North for freedom—is a grim-eyed escaped slave, and she knows the risks of what she’s about to do, but she storms straight into the base outside New York City. The General—slave-owner, she diagnoses immediately, at a glance—isn’t the first one she finds, but rather a hot-tempered red-haired captain who grins at her when she tells him that I just walked through gunfire to get here, boy, do you think I’m about to run because someone might try and hang me? He vouches for her, and some strings are pulled, and…well. Her old master is a Tory. She’s not afraid of taking advantage of double-standards when they’re held out to her in both hands. And Ade North has never in her life backed down.
