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  1. Rec 2

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    “Of all perches, under another boot is the last I’d expect to find you, Astarion.”
    He took a breath. Drank long from his glass and turned with a smile already in place.
    “Darling. What a lovely surprise.”
    “You look well,” Raphael said, his eyes making a careful inventory from pearly collar to boot. “Lordship agrees with you.”
    “As does disappointment with you.” The words came out before he could stop them. “And those jewels—almost a crown, if one squints.” He gestured toward Raphael's horns.
    “Almost is but the beginning of always.” Raphael smiled.

    Forced to attend a masquerade in the frozen hell of Cania, Ascended Astarion plays his part as Mephistopheles' prized pet. But the tedious affair presents an opportunity in the form of a familiar devil. He and Raphael have a shared ambition, and in the privacy of a forgotten chamber, they forge an alliance.
    A pact sealed not in ink, but in the brutal, desperate confession of their flesh.

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    19 Nov 2025

  2. Rec 8

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    Hope is the cruelest lie a devil can sell. Astarion bought it anyway.

    For a century, the Underdark has ground him to a shadow. Hunted, starving, chained to the guilt of what he failed to redeem.
    When Raphael tempts him with a relic buried in the Lowerdark’s abyss, whispering redemption.

    He says yes.
    He shouldn’t have.

    There’s blood. There’s heat. There’s something down there that should’ve stayed forgotten.
    And somewhere along the way, there’s a kiss you can’t come back from.

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    05 Jul 2025

  3. Rec 10

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    “How long?”
    The plug sat exactly where he had set it. The carved obsidian base caught the light when he shifted, just visible between his cheeks, the rest buried deep and holding him open.
    “Since...” Astarion swallowed, his throat clicking.
    “You flee across three districts. You change venues nightly. You make me hunt you through this hole's frozen bowels.”
    “All while wearing me inside.”
    “Since the second night.” His voice dropped. “When you did not come.”
    Raphael stilled. “Since the second night,” he repeated, slow and exact, his thumb tracing Astarion's lower lip and catching on the split he had bitten earlier.
    “I wore it so you could find me. So I would know...” His voice caught. “So I would remember who I belonged to. Even if you never came.”

    The cost of coming for him grows heavier each time.

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    25 Sep 2025

  4. Rec 48

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    A month after the events of Baldur’s Gate 3, the city’s saviours find themselves gathered outside The Devil’s Fee at dusk, summoned by the diabolist Helsik to do a job.

    Their task? Deliver a high-value infernal ‘package’.

    The problem? The package is tall, horned, and winged – and not at all happy about it.

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    05 Jul 2025

  5. Rec *

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    Ulder Ravengard wants Wyll to enjoy more of the pleasures of youth, and Cazador Szarr has a solution: an enticing present for the young lord's birthday, in the form of an irresistible pale elf. To Astarion's surprise, Wyll is more interested in companionship than carnal pleasure. Their budding friendship sends ripples through the Gate's elite. But as that friendship begins to blossom into something more, the Grand Duke is called away to Elturel...

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    03 Jul 2025