Fallingfire



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    When the Blood of Ice and Fire come together, it creates something special.

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    Alicia could not save Gustave from her father's ambush, but she managed to keep him from dying. Having learned the truth about their world and the Paintress, he wants nothing more than to catch up to the rest of his expedition and warn them before they can inadvertently wipe out their own people, and the fact that he has just suffered a couple of technically-fatal injuies is not going to stop him.
    On their journey to the monolith, Alicia and Gustave are joined by two unexpected and unlikely companions, but even Alicia cannot tell what exaclty her brother is planning, and between the injuries slowing them down and the lack of Esquie for transport, they may simply not make it before everything is lost.

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    23 Feb 2026

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    pi·a·nis·si·mo
    /ˌpēəˈnisəˌmō/
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    adverb
    (especially as a direction) very softly.
    "she played pianissimo alongside the full orchestra"
    adjective
    performed very softly.
    "the final verse was beautifully balanced and controlled in the pianissimo ending"
    noun
    a passage marked to be performed very softly.

     

    Or, Verso is stuck in a time loop. Maybe the canvas has one more story to tell.

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    08 Dec 2025

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    He’s almost looking forward to either falling from the top of the Netherbrain into the River Chionthar, or watching it fall from a safe distance. It’ll be over, then! It’ll be done. He can go hide in the dark, forget this ever happened twice. Astarion can forget Tav. He can move on. Learn to love the dark again, or something.

    Astarion wakes up in a pod on the Nautiloid.

    (COMPLETE! <3)

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    11 Nov 2025

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    Humans can go weeks without food. As long as they have access to water, some can even last months without biting into a hamburger or tasting the sweetness of strawberry jam on a biscuit hot out of the oven. There are drawbacks, of course, to skipping meals. Dizziness, fainting, weight loss too quick for the body to adapt to.

    It’s Astarion's first table of the day. The dull, slow thump of his heartbeat rushes past his ears. His knees buckle with every step. He’s falling apart, he knows this, but with ten cents in the bank and another few days to wait until his paycheck comes in, all Astarion can do is keep putting one foot in front of the other and hope he doesn’t collapse. There’s no time to think about the metaphorical hand tightening around his stomach and throat.

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    14 Sep 2025

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    There was a problem with Astarion.

    Well, in all likelihood, there were quite a few problems with Astarion.

    He was abrasive and flippant and self-serving, and Gale was in no doubt that his quick fingers were skimming at least a little out of whatever chests Tav had him picking.

    Oh, and there was the fact that he was a vampire. Yes, there was that little detail.

     

    Or, Astarion getting outed by the shadow-cursed lands.

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    08 Jul 2025