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Chapter Three - On the Unreasonable Claims of the Absent by ourdarlingro
Fandoms: Dungeons & Dragons (Roleplaying Game), Forgotten Realms (Roleplaying Game)
07 Jun 2026
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Mez'iraejss has spent six months finding a name no text thought worth recording: Grexivane, courtier of Azzagrat's forty-sixth layer, small enough to have escaped every cataloguing hand before hers. She raises the circle and conducts the interrogation herself. She survives it by whatever margin the evening's arithmetic sees fit to allow, goes to her knees on the vault floor in the dark, and then opens her notes each morning for six days without summoning Athux.
On the sixth day, she draws his circle. He arrives already in possession of what she did not tell him, and the conversation that follows is conducted entirely across the boundary of her seal: two creatures who have spent years becoming fluent in each other, arriving at the one exchange neither of them has prepared adequate defences for. He is furious that she nearly ceased to exist in a room he was not in. She has found his fury, and his threats of correction, rather more to her preference than she intends him to discover.
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- Part 3 of On the Subjugation of Abyssal Wills: a Complete Account of Methods Both Licit and Otherwise
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