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    “It needs curtains,” Ellana says firmly.

    “Curtains?”

    From his unsteady tone, it isn’t what he expected her to say.

    Ellana nods with purpose. She has had a lot of practice with keeping up a calm, brave face until conditions improve.

    “Curtains. Do you remember when we first got to Skyhold? What a mess it was? There were woodchucks under the foundation, three hundred years of raven droppings in the rotunda, and a spirit of compassion down in the field hospital trying to euthanize our soldiers. But Josephine looked around and said we needed to hang curtains, and by the end of the day, we were measuring for the drapers.”

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    04 Mar 2025

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    And, at last, he knows.

    Knows that he is finally free, finally Solas, and that he is grateful for the body that was forced upon him so long as he may use it to touch her.

    Then he is drawing her into his lap.

    Solas should’ve known his heart would always find him in the end.

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    04 Mar 2025

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    "I forgive you!" She cried. "All you have to do is stop!"

    If he considered it, it was not for long. Soon his shoulders would square, his chin turning up in that way she knew so well. The return of Pride. No matter the instance, it would always come back to this:

    She, reaching out, begging him to choose their love. He, leaning in, only for a fraction of a moment, and then no more.

    "Ir abelas, vhenan... but I cannot." He kept his eyes away, his face and body turned. "Long before we met I... failed my oldest friend. She died for that failure," he explained. "If I leave the Veil in place, I am destroying the world she wanted. And I will have," he stuttered, "she, will have died for nothing."

    Her heart was breaking. Before her and inside her. Her Pride was shattered. So, it would make sense now to turn away. All the same, she would sooner be destroyed at his heel than alone in a world without him.

    There was no honour in it, sure, but it was the truth of the thing.

    She would allow him his final betrayal. She would accept it; forgive it as the price of loving him.

    Her betrayer.

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    04 Mar 2025

  4. Public Bookmark 1

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    She made Solas a promise. And she intends to keep it.

    This time there’s nothing that can keep them apart.

    Not even his regrets.

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    04 Mar 2025

  5. Public Bookmark 14

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    Trapped in the fade, Solas is drawn inside Lavellan’s dream against his better judgment. But it’s been 8 years since his last visit, of course she doesn’t believe it’s really him.

    He shows her exactly how real he is.

    | Takes place Mid-Veilguard |

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    04 Mar 2025

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    After they reach the Fade, Avise misses her closest friend and becomes determined to break through the prison.

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    04 Mar 2025

  7. Public Bookmark 35

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    Wordlessly, lest the goddess hear them, she lets the Weave carry over to him the image in her mind, her lips on his, her hands on his chest, letting him see what she’s seeing, and it feels like blasphemy.

     

    A cleric of Mystra falls in love and heresy with Mystra’s disgraced former lover.

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    17 Apr 2024

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    18 Mar 2024

  9. Public Bookmark 17

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    He feels a deep connection to her in this moment, the way she holds her cup with the tips of her fingers, as if she can’t exactly remember how to hold it, and the way he has been to this cafe a hundred times but can’t seem to remember exactly how to sit in front of someone on some facsimile of a date. A woman without a past. A man without a future. The steam from his drink rises slowly into the air, where it dissipates in the ephemeral present and is instantly replaced by another thin stream.

     

    A professor on medical leave and an amnesiac ex-cult member meet and fall in love at a support group.

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    18 Mar 2024

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    Gale and Elayne are trapped after a cave-in, waiting for the other members of their party to return and free them - unfortunately for the bard, they don't return in time to stop her from making a humiliating mistake.

    Although, in her defence, Elayne really did think she was dreaming.

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    20 Feb 2024

  11. Public Bookmark 2

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    The dark and gray around Moonrise Towers is dreadful for morale. Perhaps Gale can cheer Tav up with a little romantic gesture?

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    11 Feb 2024

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    “Gale—.” Freya’s voice left her as she felt lips on her bare shoulder, the familiar scratch of a beard. She looked from Gale to see...Gale. A picture perfect copy of her lover leaned over her chair, giving her a smirk as he continued a chaste path up her shoulder, ending with a bite to her neck. She had felt his touch long enough to discern it from others and this was no impostor's.

    Her mind went blank for a few seconds.

    “Indulge me,” the other Gale said, now crouched before her, turning her chair to face him. His hands skimmed up her calves, pushing the gauzy fabric of her skirt up. “I would like to sate a few of those fantasies of yours.”

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    Or Gale's jealousy over Halsin inspires him to get creative.

    Ch1- Halsin

    Ch2- We deal with Gale's earring

    Ch3-Wavemother's Robe

    Ch 4- Orin kidnaps Tav

    Ch 5 - Drow Twins

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    11 Feb 2024

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    Gale was an eruption of movement before she could even finish, flinging the tome at her, the only thing saving her head from colliding with its thick spine was her quick reflexes.

    “Don’t,” he spat. The veins of lightning on his forehead pulsed, the orb tattoo on his chest seething with a purple light. “Don’t you dare speak of her as if you know her wishes.” His hateful expression crumbled, revealing something hurting underneath. “You think I want this?” He swung his arms wide, to the state of his room. “You think I want any of this? I wanted her. I wanted a life together with her. We planned for a life together. I had bought books for her, to carry back to Waterdeep. I took her to the market one day, and she picked out curtains for us.” His voice wavered and he paused, sucking in a breath between his teeth. “I wanted her. That was all I wanted. But...apparently that was no simple request.”

    “So what’s the plan here?” Shadowheart asked. She kept a wary eye out for any more flying tomes and gentled her tone. “Become a god and then, what? Bring her back?”

    She waited for him to laugh at the ridiculous notion.

    He didn’t, he only met her stare with his own.

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    Or Tav dies and Gale copes poorly.

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    02 Feb 2024

  14. Public Bookmark 43

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    A series of mostly Gale-centric ficthings written for the Comfortember Challenge. I am extremely slow so this may end up being a Comfortanuary self-challenge as well.

    All replies to the challenge will be posted in this work, so tags may (read: will) change. Not all chapters will be related to or follow from one another, so please read the notes/chapter titles for characters, pairings, and warnings.

    In which we have (so far) comforting musical moments, shared happiness around a campfire on a cold night, a day out at an orchard (with sex), Morena and a surprise bb!Gale, Gale and Tav coming home, Tara visiting Gale on the road in Candlekeep, a sick bb!Gale who's needing his tressym, some sad stuff with a hopeful conclusion, Gale and Tav comforting each other, two women (and a tressym) go looking for something that fell from the sky, an old book, Gale waking up from a dream, our favorite wizard trying to get ready for Founder's Day, Gale letting someone take care of him for once, Gale having a guest lecturer come for a few days, tea being had in a haunted library worlds away, and Tav helping Gale end a cycle.

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    02 Feb 2024

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    Chapter 3

  15. Public Bookmark 36

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    MAJOR BALDUR'S GATE 3 END GAME SPOILERS.

    [ short monologue. — first person from gale's pov. — past and present tensing. ]

     

    cameo links to listen to it:
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    In the pursuit of greatness, he lost who he was.
    Godhood... is lonely.
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    26 Dec 2023

  16. Public Bookmark 18

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    Winter brings many things to Waterdeep– the sort of darkness that seeps into every corner of the city, the sort of snow that falls as heavy as a shroud. It brings a season’s worth of holidays, and with them, all their customs, all their visitors called home from every region of Faerun. It brings gifts and songs and lanterns, lit and hung in every window, their light shining off the snow like grounded stars.

    Best of all, it brings them Arabella.

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    26 Dec 2023

  17. Public Bookmark 12

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    After a mishap with their tadpoles, Tav and Gale become mentally interlocked, revealing secrets about Gale's life with Mystra that terrify the resident party leader.

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    26 Dec 2023

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