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Vilya's face is little more than a distant echo in the depths of Keyleth's memory; a crusted-over puncture wound at the back of her heart, slowly healing like a scab and just as itchy. Vax'ildan is instead a vivid, weeping slash across the front of it, bloody and raw and held open by the dagger she refuses to remove, every feather and every dream tearing it wider and wider.
It's different.
At least her mother only left once.
Keyleth can go anywhere but forward.
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Thancred sometimes fancied himself a man of many secrets, if only because an air of mystery went far when it came to drawing the unguarded attention of many a fair maiden, and he thought himself equally adept when it came to insight. It took a liar to know one, after all, and he knew them well. But the Exarch's secrecy felt different somehow, and it left a bitter taste on his tongue.
alone in a new world, thancred's only guidance comes from a regrettable source: the crystal exarch
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At the top of the ramp, memories waited like knives in the dark. A better survivalist would have avoided them. He would have avoided them, were things the same as they were a year ago.
But he had no other reminders now, so the knives would have to do.
a long-building grief
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It had been one night—only one night of poor foresight a decade ago, yet here he was, lost in her labyrinth, tangled in thorns all over again, still navigating the consequences without a compass.
And he hadn't the strength to pull himself away.
the past does not stay buried
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- Part 3 of Revenant
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Three years he had prepared for this. Three years to steel his heart and paste a mask of iron upon his face. Three long years, still so few they paled beside a century of meticulous planning.
His own desperate heart should be silent. So he willed it; so it roiled regardless.
an ending, and an unexpected beginning
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we move forward. together.
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Sid/Anora canon, maybe I'll put a real description here eventually
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Sidurgu and D'alia are no strangers to the night terrors that plague each other's sleep.
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- Part 2 of D'alia/Sidurgu
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07 Jan 2026
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"I think you’re the only person I can stand looking in the eye," Hermes had told her once with a watery smile. Then he had laughed at himself for calling her a Person, and Meteion had laughed because he was laughing, and Hermes never made that mistake again. Now she is just Meteion, or Entelechy, or the lost little sounds he makes in his sleep when the dreams come.
[In a fit of rage, Meteion mirrors Hermes's self-destruction in the worst possible way.]
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25 Dec 2025
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Zenos's stare is like two molten ingots; yet despite that intensity, he looks half-awake, almost drugged, his hair hanging lank and his white shirt slipping from one shoulder. It's the first time Fordola has ever seen the unobfuscated lines of his body, and it gives her a strange feeling, like seeing a lion skinned of its pelt.
[Fordola is beckoned to Zenos's quarters for an unusual request.]
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25 Dec 2025
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Estinien's brain isn’t capable of stuttering anything more than “please,” over and over again while his lungs heave for air, begging Halone to grant him solace, just this once. You aren’t supposed to lose everything when you’re only twelve.
This time, he gets there a few minutes earlier.
This time, Halone answers his prayer.
(or: in a softer, kinder world, Hamignant survives Ferndale. canon divergent AU)
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27 Nov 2025
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After a long evening in the Pillars, the Warrior of Light and her companion find an abandoned cathedral. Sidurgu finds better uses for Wren's sharpest parts.
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13 Oct 2025