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1. tell me about despair by hanap for burningdarkfire

   Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)  

   • Mature
   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Multi
   • Complete Work

   28 Aug 2022

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Astrid Beck/Eadwulf Grieve/Essek Thelyss/Caleb Widogast
   • Astrid Beck/Eadwulf Grieve
   • Astrid Beck/Caleb Widogast
   • Eadwulf Grieve/Caleb Widogast
   • Eadwulf Grieve/Essek Thelyss
   • Astrid Beck/Eadwulf Grieve/Caleb Widogast
   • Essek Thelyss/Caleb Widogast
   • Astrid Beck
   • Eadwulf Grieve
   • Essek Thelyss
   • Caleb Widogast
   • Developing Relationship
   • Post-Canon
   • in which the author handed each wizard a knife and watched them reopen each other's wounds
   • several cycles of hurt/comfort

   Summary

   “I think,” Caleb says, slow and measured, as though he's thought about this for a long time, “I've had enough of going through every day like I'm about to die, because I'm not. Not anymore. Now, I… I think I would like to live.” 

   [In which the new Archmage of Civil Influence, her sole annex, the former Shadowhand of the Kryn Dynasty, and a weary transmutation professor at Soltryce Academy knit themselves back together, hand in unlovable hand.]

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