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Snowflake Challenge promotional banner featuring an image of a chubby brown and red bird surrounded by falling snow. Text: Snowflake Challenge January 1-31.

(What a pretty bird! It's not one I'm familiar with, but a bit of searching suggests perhaps female Cardinalis cardinalis? Very nice, anyway).

snowflake_challenge #8 is to create a quiz or poll. I was inspired by

philomytha's recent Biggles/von Stalhein poll, and have created one for my own OTP :D Please do read the quotes and vote even if you haven't read the book—I've deliberately avoided very spoilery lines, and I think most of these are pretty good out of context.

Poll #28243

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Which is the best shippy Ewen/Keith line?

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Meanwhile, to Keith’s surprise, the horseman sprang to earth, flung the reins to his henchman, and came forward empty-handed—a magnificent specimen of young manhood, as the soldier could not help admitting.
3 (10.7%)

He was wearing the kilt to-day, and for the first time Keith Windham thought that there was something to be said for that article of attire—at least on a man of his proportions.
6 (21.4%)

He liked to see his civilised young barbarian on the high horse.
4 (14.3%)

‘My own young Achilles still very well-bred and agreeable, like his Chief.’
5 (17.9%)

Strange that he had not at first recognised him that night—extraordinarily handsome Ardroy had looked, and devilish cool he had kept, too, in a tight place! . . . Fool that he was, he was at it again.
9 (32.1%)

Was it really only philanthropy, as Keith had assured himself a few hours ago, which had sent him back to the shieling that night? It was certainly not philanthropy which was driving him to Fort Augustus now.
3 (10.7%)

Yet now the remembrance of the night in the shieling hut was no longer a draught of poison, but what it had been at the time, that cup of cold water which holds a double blessing.
1 (3.6%)

“I had some dark days, it is true. . . . Yes, they were very dark . . . but not so dark after your return. You gave me hope; and above all you gave me back that night in the hut.” He smiled. “I often think of it. . . .”
10 (35.7%)

It was strange, it was alarming, to feel (...) how strongly their intimacy had progressed in two months of absence and, on his side, of deliberate abstention from communication—like the roots of two trees growing secretly towards each other in darkness.
19 (67.9%)

But he was never to see him again, so it seemed, for the five meetings were over. Again he counted them: here, at Edinburgh, on Beinn Laoigh, at Fort Augustus. And suddenly his pulse quickened with pleasure—that made four, only four! . . .
6 (21.4%)

So not knowing where else to dispose it, he still carried the packet with the lock of hair upon him, a material token of the tie between him and the foe who had captured him a year ago, and had held him in a species of bondage ever since.
11 (39.3%)

Some other line which I will quote in a comment!
0 (0.0%)