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    “Sure, alright,” he said, hoping that some level of honesty might give her some reprieve, “of course I’ve thought about sex. You asked if I’d been in love. Then you asked me how it felt, and never let me say.”

    Maelle laughed, relaxing again. He smiled at her as she turned to look at him full-on. “Go on, then,” she said quietly.

    “It feels like the world shifts and moves around you, but you’re stuck in one spot. All you can do is let it stand there and devour you until nothing is left anymore, except you and that person. It’s incredible. It’s consuming. It’s dangerous.”

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    14 Feb 2026

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    This was a dangerous habit. Maelle was a dangerous habit. Affection toward anyone was strictly off-limits, yet one doe-eyed, primly-postured girl weaseled her way into his heart.

    What helped least of all was Maelle’s resemblance. Like a vivid hallucination, he dreamt of growing up with Alicia. Guiding her youth-soft hands through clumsy brushstrokes and detangling her hair as she sniveled and blubbered about Clea for the umpteenth time.

    Every time, he woke with more fondness and protection in his touch for Maelle, and Maelle seemed adamant to seek him out most nights in camp. 

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    14 Feb 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 37

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    Monolith Year 78 (in which Verso is incredibly touch-starved and increasingly unable to stop staring at the way Monoco grips his staff):

    "You're insufferable."

    "Yet here you are, staring at me with the desperate eyes of a man who hasn't been touched in decades. Which, coincidentally, you are."

    Verso swallowed, unable to tear his gaze away from Monoco's hands. He should feel humiliated by the bluntness, recoil at the implication he was so transparent. But all he felt was a burning, aching need overriding everything else.

    "You didn't answer my question," he croaked.

    “I’ve not been dragging it across the Continent for him, Verso. Does it matter?”

    It should. It should matter that this thing between them wasn't real, wasn't special, wasn't his. But as Verso stared at Monoco, at the soft halo of fur around his face, at the wooden hands that had pulled him back from death countless times, he found he couldn't summon the will to care. He shook his head.

    Monoco patted his thigh, a gesture so casually commanding that it sent another wave of heat through Verso's body. "Then come here. You’re hogging all the warmth.”

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    13 Feb 2026

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    Maelle is plagued by nightmares. She uses Verso to help chase them away.

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    14 Feb 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 38

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    “Together,” she says. “It could be nice. You might enjoy it, if you don’t overthink things. Only if you want, though. I won’t take the offer otherwise.”

    She knows him too well. The overthinking— it's one of his downfalls.

    Tav means well, too. She really does. Her cheeks dust pink— from the earlier thrill of rushing past the Steel Watch or from the anticipation and intrigue of sex. Not just any sex. A foursome. With him. With him. Oh, gods.

    OR, a successful 25 persuasion check roll with an added dose of illithid tadpole mindsex. Just your average Tuesday in Baldur’s Gate.

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    28 Jan 2026