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He watches the gears turn behind Thain’s eyes. He is, by all accounts, an intelligent man. There is a piece of the puzzle that does not fit, and it is shaped conspicuously like Bren himself. A pity that sixteen minutes is not enough time to both work it out and get the job done.
“We are too far along to back out now,” Bren points out. “They will keep their guard up, after tonight. We will not get this chance a second time.”
Thain takes another sip, lips pinched as if tasting something bitter. He scans the room again, then downs the rest. Bren grins. That is an acquiescence, if he has ever seen one. He leans closer, letting one gloved hand rest on Thain’s forearm.
“May I steal you away somewhere private?”
At a soiree for Tevinter's elite, a magister's pet meets his master's collaborator. Scourger Bren x Neutral Evil Essek AU, but make it Dragon Age.
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“I am pretty fucked, Essek.”
He doesn’t intend to let the spell go, but it unravels along with his concentration as the pain becomes overwhelming. Wincing, he lets his arm fall back to the ground. He’s been trained to take this. Nothing ambitious for a moment. Just breathe.
Prompt: Caleb and Essek are separated in Aeor and Caleb gets blinded.
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Various one-shot ficlets originally posted to Tumblr, mostly Shadowgast. Pairings and short descriptions will be listed in the chapter titles, any applicable CWs will be in the opening notes.
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They discuss their research until the fifteen minute mark, at which point Caleb’s hand finds its way atop Essek’s knee. Twenty minutes, and it’s traveled to his thigh. Twenty-five, and Essek begins to thread his fingers through the ends of Caleb’s hair, twice as scandalous.
Twenty-nine minutes and fifty-seven seconds. Fifty-eight. Fifty-nine.
“I think it is likely our friends have settled–”
“Good.”
Then Caleb climbs halfway into Essek’s lap and is dragged the rest of the way, and this is what he’s been itching for all day.
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“You are being gentle with him.”
Essek stills his hand on Frumpkin’s back, arching a questioning eyebrow. Frumpkin looks over his shoulder in indignant protest, but before he can so much as merp, Caleb has scooped him into his lap. The cat’s eyes fall closed with contentment as Caleb takes his face in both hands and rubs his thumbs in firm circles.
“Cats are not so fragile,” he explains. “They like a little bit of-- here.”
And then Caleb reaches out and takes his hand, and Essek is afraid to breathe.
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These are the facts. Essek Thelyss is a traitor to the Dynasty. He has collaborated with the Cerberus Assembly on dunamantic research. His loyalties are an entirely unknown quantity, and likely nonexistent. He is, above all else, a liar.
Also, he all but lives in the neighborhood now, and it’s very uncomfortable.
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A Shadowgast evil AU (in progress).
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11 Dec 2022
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There is a gravity that has pulled them together many times. It pulled Caleb’s lips to Essek’s forehead, and Essek’s hands to Caleb’s arms when a tower collapsed upon him. It pulled Caleb to Eiselcross, now, to be at Essek’s side as his life as the Shadowhand dies.
Now, it could pull them together into Aeor.
(Two wizards venture into Aeor - and find that something has woken in the dead city's depths. Something dangerous. Something that will force them to decide what their pasts mean to them, and what they mean to each other.)
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02 Nov 2022
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the other things that make us by saturdaysky for LadyOrpheus
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
22 Aug 2021
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Essek returns, when he can, to the sanctuary of Caleb's home. The peace of it is a balm against the tedious peril of the road, which has more misery to share than Essek had ever thought. It's nice to have a place where he can lose himself: in a book, in arcane study, in the confusing allure of Caleb's smile.
It's nice. And the cats miss him, Caleb says.
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- Part 1 of the other things that make us
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15 Feb 2022
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displacement by mllekurtz (TheKnittingJedi) for saturdaysky
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
21 Aug 2021
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After the peace talks, with only silence and loneliness left where the Mighty Nein used to be, Essek thinks he's ruined everything. So why, when he's mysteriously displaced in his own future, does he find only acceptance, comfort and love?
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23 Aug 2021
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the awful daring of a moment’s surrender by mllekurtz (TheKnittingJedi)
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
22 Nov 2021
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Caleb has never had a place he could call home that wasn’t also taken from him, and perhaps the same can be said for Essek. And now Caleb has made one for him.
Essek doesn't want to be in it alone, tonight.
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- Part 2 of to make an end
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23 Nov 2021