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1. Holes in the World by KatOnFire

   Fandoms: The Saint of Steel - T. Kingfisher  

   • Not Rated
   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, Major Character Death
   • Gen
   • Complete Work

   21 Jan 2026

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Major Character Death
   • Some minor Piper & His deep-rooted sense of Self Criticism
   • Piper (The Saint of Steel)
   • Galen (The Saint of Steel)
   • (. . Sorta)
   • Darkfic
   • Purposefully Vague Tags
   • Worst Possible Ending AU
   • Pre-Canon
   • Alternate Universe - Pre-Canon
   • Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
   • Hurt No Comfort
   • Angst with No Happy Ending
   • (Medical Descriptions may be Innacurate)
   • (I did enough research to worry anyone looking through my browser history then made semi-educated guesses LOL)
   • Self-Deprecation
   • Additional Warnings In Author's Note
   • ADDITIONAL DETAILED CONTENT WARNINGS IN NOTES
   • Dead Dove: Do Not Eat
   • Also: I Headcanon Piper as wearing Glasses
   • It's barely there in-fic but hey XD

   Summary

   It was a rough day, as far as Piper was concerned.

   And when one was used to the dead, assigning the word 'rough' to a day takes on a bit of a different meaning.

    

   For one, there was the paladin.

    

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   A rough day for Piper down in the morgue. Darkfic - Mind the tags.

   Language:

   English

   Words:

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   Chapters:

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