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  1. Public Bookmark 35

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    The only comfort Astarion had in the years of hell he has endured under Cazadors control has been a golden ring with a chip of fire stone. No matter how many times Cazador has thrown it away, burnt it, or sold it, it always returns to him, good as new. His master gave up after a decade and told him to hide it, lest it impact his ability to lure unsuspecting victims back to his lair. Astarion has no memory of who gave him the ring, and the inscription "May we always return to each other" offered no help. But still, it is a comfort.

    When the tadpole is forced into his skull, and he has to join a ragtag group of weirdos just to survive while he figures out his new found abilities, he finds himself fiddling with it more often now that he won't get punished for it. But the wizard, Gale, keeps staring at it, and it makes Astarion uneasy. He tries to hide it, but the need to touch it, to hold it, is too great.

    So he endures the stares, and hopes that whatever the wizards reasons, he can use it to his advantage to finally be free from his masters clutches, and maybe find out who gifted him the only item he has of his life before he was a spawn.

    And they may be closer than he knows.

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    17 May 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 53

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    Acting on a hunch, Gale reached into the folds of his bunched-up robe, searching blindly until he found the object he was looking for: an amulet. A magical one, at that.

    He brought the amulet up between them, into Astarion's line of sight, and the vampire quirked an eyebrow at the non-sequitur. "I know you're curious," Gale said in lieu of an actual explanation.

    "Of course I am," Astarion replied shamelessly. He shrugged. "It's not everyday you meet someone who eats magic. But what are you insinuating, exactly?"

    "Feed it to me."

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    31 Oct 2024

  3. Public Bookmark 31

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    feeblemind (8th level enchantment)
    you blast the mind of a creature that you can see within range, attempting to shatter its intellect and personality. the creature can’t cast spells, activate magic items, understand language, or communicate in any intelligible way. the creature can, however, identify its friends, follow them, and even protect them.

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    or, gale gets hit with a feeblemind spell.

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    “How old are you, Astarion?”

    Astarion is not expecting the question, Halsin can tell by the way he jerks upright, spine straight, shoulders strong.

    “Two-hundred-and-forty,” he answers without hesitation. “Give or take a few years.”

    Halsin swallows, rewords his question. “How old were you when you were turned?”

    Astarion goes quiet. Extremely, cacophonously quiet.

    “Thirty-nine,” he finally says, a bolt straight into Halsin’s heart.

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    Halsin discovers Astarion was turned before his maturity and all the sacred elven rites that come along with it. Including the sex one.

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    21 Feb 2024

  5. Public Bookmark 19

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    It’s old news, but shortly after the car crash that brought Ethan Hunt back into his life and immediately sent Will’s future hurtling into a river of dangerous possibilities, Will jumped for him twice. Or fell. He’s not sure. He’s never been sure, and maybe he doesn’t even know the difference between the two anymore.

    He wonders if Ethan does.

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    14 Jul 2023