Firerose Fiction

Four Castles Howl Built (& One He Had No Hand In)
Summary: Building castles is hard work, but not as hard as building a relationship when you've only got one heart between you. Written for Yuletide 2011

Howl’s first castle didn’t move.

It was not that it wasn’t meant to, but its wheels dug deep into the dark ooze of the old dockyard, and all of his spells and Calcifer’s power couldn’t shift it. After what felt like a year but was really only a minute or two, what should have been his magic castle cracked open under the strain and turned back into junk, with a shower of bolts. (ao3)