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Caleb is late coming home from Soltryce and Essek is worried. He is right to be.
Caleb had approximately four different paths he regularly took from Soltryce to his home. Given that it was a Wednesday, Astrid was on business in Nicodranas, and their usual butcher had a family emergency in the countryside, there were really only two routes he was likely to take. Factoring in Caleb’s distaste for the cacophony of Wednesday’s market in the square at the midway point and that it was sweet corn season, Essek assumed he would take the more winding of the routes to pass by the quieter vegetable stand and the baker.
It was not a overly long walk, but as Essek marched through the street, he bitterly thought that it was long enough to take time he worried he did not have.
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- Part 1 of Fresh Horrors (Eternal Whumptober)
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27 Jun 2026
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Temporal Shunt (The Art of Vanishing in Place) by Inanerial
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
15 May 2025
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Essek's stomach whined at him like it too had been cast back into the memories where a grumble would have been too forward. The aching hollowness felt somehow reassuring, even though it was unpleasant. It was a little bit of home—and what has home been for him in recent years but a dull ache?
Essek tries to undo the tangled web of ambition, guilt, and alienation that brought him to steal the beacons. He is, after all, his own punishment.
(Detailed ED warnings in the notes of the first chapter)
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24 Jun 2026
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Forgiveness is a service she performs, like leading prayers and counseling the Queen, and so once a month Deirta Thelyss clouds her light with somber clothes and walks to the Dungeons of Penance to hear the last confessions of prisoners. The dark grey cloak always feels heavy, but this week she checks her feet twice to make sure she is not about to step on it as she walks. Her closest servant, a goblin woman who has been with the family for years, trails behind her with a basket of supplies. She walks through the streets as if in a dream. People part before her, bowing their heads. It is more sympathy than awe, today. She was a mother before she became Umavi. It is not a title that can be taken from her.
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- Part 5 of Exercises & Drabbles
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24 Jun 2026
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There is so much you have to say. But you have drawn on more magic than usual today, and you cannot think of emptying your last arcane reserves, not even for the sake of sentiment.
Twenty-five words it is, then.
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23 Jun 2026
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A cheerful voice echoed in his head like a temple bell: Heeeeeeey Essek! How are you? We miss you — especially Caaaayleb. Orange festival soon in Nicodranas, we’ll be at port then. Come see us, pleeeeease!
His tongue felt like dead fish in his mouth. Had he had fallen asleep? He hadn’t done that since he was a child. Why was he on the floor? He tried to form words, but it just came out as a groaned exhale.
Essek is poisoned-- luckily his new friends won't stop bothering him and one in particular knows a little something about poisons.
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- Part 3 of Fresh Horrors (Eternal Whumptober)
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23 Jun 2026