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Kass is struggling with who he is; no memories from before the nautiloid and a sinister darkness that creeps through his thoughts.
He finds himself amongst a group of misfits that all share a similar affliction, though none as cryptic as his own. They know who they are, he on the other hand, does not. Fighting an internal battle each day, he finds himself feeling new and wholly terrifying emotions. Communication is a struggle for him, as is trusting others. Though a certain pale elf seems to allow him to temporarily let his walls down... but would it be enough?
Could he figure himself out without damning himself - or others - in the process?Series
- Part 1 of Unforgiving Echoes
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09 Sep 2025
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Perhaps come spring, when the ice thaws, someone will find you. Preferably someone with a conscience, one that would see to the passing of information on to someone in some way. Though, the far likelier scenario is that if someone did find you, they would see the monster you had become and burn your corpse to further cleanse the lands of your abomination.
You can lie to yourself all you want – they’re not coming for you up here. There is absolutely no way in any of the realms that they could know where you were, or where you are.
Your heart feels infinitely blacker, as if it was rotting from the inside out. Like the pain from that sadistic woman in the mindflayer colony. Gods did that hurt. Far more than the gash in your shoulder, or the hole in your side.
No – this was worse. This was deep. It was all consuming. It was the void you have been living with, simultaneously overflowing and starved of everything but space. It was the precipice between existing and caving in on yourself, being sucked into the aching emptiness within your chest.
It was the true feeling of hopelessness.
Though you had no way to know just how much of an augury that thought would be.
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- Part 2 of Unforgiving Echoes
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08 Sep 2025
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“Well,” he croons, “The fun doesn’t have to be entirely one-sided. Our time could very well be limited. You help me with my condition…and I could help you with yours.”
“My condition?” she asks, her eyebrows now arched to maximum height.
Astarion tilts his head. “Darling, it’s bad enough that we might burst into tentacles any day now. I would hate to see you die a virgin.”
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Neve already had her hands full, what with trying to keep her companions from killing each other and pushing forward in the face of an uncertain fate. Then the vampire had to go and decide she was sweet enough to want to sink his teeth into.
Another take on how things unfold post-bite.
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- Part 1 of Mercurial World
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28 Jun 2025
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“Oh, gods forbid they respond positively to you doing a good thing,” Neve deadpans. She squeezes him a little again. “That’s sort of how it works, Astarion.”
She can’t even see it. Believes the best of them all so earnestly, himself included, that she can’t see how it would all fall away without her at the center. It’s enough to make a person feel like they might actually deserve it.
“And by it, you mean…?” he asks instead.
Her huffed laugh of disbelief ruffles the hair at his neck. “Friendship, you idiot,” she answers. “And the general acquisition thereof.”
Astarion cuts a sideways look at her as best he can with her still nestled so close. “And is that what we are? Friends?”
He’d meant it to tease her, and yet finds that the silence before her answer twists his stomach. Because…he doesn’t actually know, either.
“Yes, Astarion,” Neve says gently, after a moment. “I think we’re very good friends.”
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Neve and Astarion, continued. She's not a victim. Not a target. Not just one night it's better to forget. But then...whatever in the world could she be?
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- Part 2 of Mercurial World
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28 Jun 2025
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“Adultery,” Raphael repeats plainly. “Infidelity.”
“Yes.” Astarion tosses his quill down. “It appears that I’ve spent the last few months drinking, fucking, and compelling people of our government. I recall none of it, mind you. But given Lilith’s absence, Halsin insisting that I not be left alone, and Shadowheart desperately praying for my damned soul—I can conclude that I have dragged myself into a bender that has wreaked havoc on my life as I knew it."
A sequel to the events of Hellish Rebuke. This story will not make sense if you have not read its predecessor.
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27 Jun 2025