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B2MeM Prompt, Card and Number: Setting as character B7 - getting lost, Legendarium Curiosities B11: Shapeshifting
Format: Short story
Genre: Horror
Rating: T
Warnings: Major character death
Characters: Sigrid, arguably Tauriel and Smaug
Pairings: Sigrid/Tauriel
Summary: The world under the lake is more foreign than any land she could ever hope to travel, airless and full of dancing lights and grasping plant-life. She has seen caves, she has seen jewels, and yet, no matter how she turned, silt stinging her eyes, she has never seen the rise of the dragon's body.

Also on AO3

( misadventures under the long lake and also under the cut )