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1. When the Sun Needs Mending by gotthat_Lightwood_Bane

   Fandoms: The Empyrean - Rebecca Yarros  

   • Explicit
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • M/M
   • Complete Work

   07 Oct 2026

   Tags

   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Ridoc Gamlyn/Brennan Sorrengail
   • Ridoc Gamlyn
   • Brennan Sorrengail
   • Minor Violet Sorrengail
   • Minor Rhiannon Matthias
   • minor Sawyer Henrick
   • minor Dain Aetos
   • minor Bodhi Durran
   • Aotrom (Empyrean)
   • Marbh (Empyrean)
   • Lover boy Brennan
   • Flashbacks
   • Iron Flame: chapter 44
   • Fourth Wing spoilers
   • Iron Flame Spoilers
   • missed scene
   • Ridoc’s recovery
   • pining Brennan
   • protective Brennan
   • Smut
   • Blow Job
   • Hand Job
   • Brennan swearing every two minutes because why not
   • Rare Pair
   • Some canon dialogue for chapter 44
   • Canon Rewrite
   • Chapter 1: Brennan POV
   • Chapter 2: Ridoc POV
   • Dragon Sass
   • First Date
   • Anal Sex
   • Possessive Sex
   • Brennan fucks like a god because duh
   • Brennan Sorrengail deserves nice things
   • Ridoc is a humble puddle
   • Top Brennan Sorrengail
   • bottom Ridoc Gamlyn
   • (on this occasion - because obviously he’s a bisexual switchy verse icon normally)
   • minor Dom/sub dynamic
   • heavy on the good boy of it all

   Summary

   Brennan mends Ridoc after his injury on the mountain, and then he finally lets that protective need take over so he can watch over Ridoc’s recovery.

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   13,358

   Chapters:

   2/2

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