offtides
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The afterimage of him, bathed in his artificial light, is burned into the back of her eyelids, ruining her perfect dark, sitting on the edge of her consciousness like a threat.
Shadowheart, in the shadows of Gale’s nightlights.
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- Part 1 of offtides
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She tries to mimic the way his shoulders hold no tension whatsoever. He feels her shifting and looks over at her with the easiest smile she’s ever seen on him. His loose body, his effortless expression, his things surrounding him, his home. This is what it’s like to be home, she thinks, but her shoulders are a little tense, and her smile back at him feels a little forced.
In Waterdeep, Shadowheart looks for home.
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- Part 2 of offtides
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“I need to process… you,” he tells her, whispers into her hair. “The enormity of you. Of us.”
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- Part 3 of offtides
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At times, she can pretend the lines, and the orb they come from, aren’t there. Since they’ve arrived in the city, he’s been wearing a cloak around his shoulders to ward off the chill that seems to come from the water, especially in the early mornings when a fog sits on the surface of the river, rolling along with the softly moving streams. The cloak is clasped around his neck with a pin they found somewhere. It covers the wispy evidence of his folly. She can only see the lines along his cheek if he looks directly at her. And recently, he’s been looking up, toward the city, and the decorated domes of the wizard shop they’re slowly making their way towards. Shadowheart isn’t sure what they’ll find. But Gale seems to be.
Shadowheart casts guidance.
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- Part 4 of offtides
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Perhaps this makes him a Sharran too, this desire to chase the loss, the dark imprint Shadowheart will leave behind when she does it again, forgets him, forgets them. Perhaps this, then, is prayer, the whisper of warmth of her still on his body, the hand in his, the echo of her sighs still ringing in his ears. Even when she’s still in bed with him, laying beside him, he feels as though she’s already gone.
Six months after her sudden disappearance from Gale’s life, Shadowheart returns to Waterdeep without any memory of their secret relationship.
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- Part 5 of offtides