2 Bookmarked Items in Illusion Magic (Pulp Musicals)
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Knock Loose What You Carry by AmethystUnarmed for oswalds_apotheosis
Fandoms: The Great Moon Hoax - Dahan, Pulp Musicals - Dahan
19 Sep 2024
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It is a simple task. With his tracking spell burned out of Margaret’s little pet and the Antikythera’s orrery well out of their reach, it is an inevitability that Itzal requested Dakkar be brought back with them, rather than properly dispatched.
It is easy, taking Dakkar from the beach.
Physically, that is.
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Kal tortures Dakkar for information and remembers.
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The ship they had fled in burns, unable to be saved, yet he walks through it unharmed. Step after step, each making the flames in her chest burn brighter, faster, hotter. This is not the first time this cruelty has been inflicted upon her, yet Ahlaam feels that familiar grief and fury rise all the same.
Once she gets a look, she cannot unsee.
Ahlaam knows without a shadow of doubt this is not the man she loved with all her heart. It is a convincing facade--he has managed to get the kindness in Taavi's eyes almost completely down, reaching out with that characteristic gentleness. But Ahlaam had trained with him many a day in the long-dead past. She is not yet tired enough to completely miss those familiar tells. She may be exhausted, spent, her near-lack of magic leaving an ache in her chest - but there is just enough for her to see through this lie. She sees a half-smirk that flits across his face, or the way the fire catches on an nearly-hidden gleam in his eyes.
Even if Taavi was not long dead...her husband would never look at her like that.
"Kal," she snarls.
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A world where Ahlaam wasn’t quite so drained of magic.