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    Essek clung to her; his fingers gripped the front of her coat. He looked small in a way he never had before, frightened in a way that Caleb hadn’t fully processed he could be. It wasn’t Essek’s nervousness, the anxiety of a brilliant man who could see danger all around him, who could see the falling dominoes and the way the web he had woven had entangled him. It was the fear of a small child, or indeed, a stray cat—the fear of a creature trapped in a terrifying world it did not understand.

    Essek, brilliant Essek, Essek who believed he could find the answers to everything, unable to understand a thing—the thought of it stabbed at Caleb’s heart.

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    In a world where Trent makes it back to Eiselcross before the Nein do, Essek spends a night under the effects of the Feeblemind spell. Caleb undertakes a duty of care, and the Nein learn how Essek feels about them beneath everything.

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    19 Sep 2022

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    Essek goes home, and there is no one waiting at his door. This should be some manner of relief. But his towers haven't felt like a safe haven for a long time now, long before errant scourgers appeared to harass him with strange questions. He misses the immediacy of that threat, prefers it over the slow and indulgent terror of whatever punishment is coming for him, someday soon.

    He tells himself that he misses only that, the simplicity of being unsafe in the company of predators, and that he does not miss the company itself.

    (In which a pair of scourgers shows up at Essek’s doorstep and saves him from himself.)

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    18 Sep 2021

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    “What if I didn’t care.” The words surprise Essek for how true they actually are. He wouldn’t care if the Nein saw them kissing, they all knew they did anyway. What difference did it make if they had some actual evidence of it?

    Caleb’s eyes darkened.

    Essek.”

    “What if I decided that I don’t care, that all I’ve been able to think about for the last hour is your hands and I’ve had to sit there and converse—” He breaks off, licking his lips as his mouth is dry. “I want you. I want you and it’s distracting, and you have utterly broken my ability to sit there and pretend that I am not thinking about anything but your hands and skin. What have you done to me.”

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    In which Essek's concentration is tested, the wizards have feelings, and discover that maybe they should pay a slight bit more attention to their surroundings.

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    23 Aug 2021

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    “We have not only been transported into these different bodies, into this part of the Empire,” Caleb continued. “Oskar and Guinevere are also...the characters in a novel.”

    Essek blinked at him. “A novel,” he repeated. “Might I ask what the, er, genre of this novel would be?”

    Caleb winced. Bit his lip. “Trashy smut,” he replied.

    Essek dropped his head into his hands. “I don’t suppose you will tell me that the woman you currently embody meets up with a human from the Empire.”

    Caleb gave a laugh that held anything but mirth. “Oh, my friend, no. She falls in love with Oskar the half-orc. It is, after all, called Tusk Love.”

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    06 Aug 2021

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    A series of post canon shadowgast moments exploring what their lives together look like. From early moments to well into their established relationship, little snippets of the two wizards who choose love again and again.

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    12 Jul 2021