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    Zack laughs hysterically. “No, no, no. That’s not how this works. Didn’t you hear Jessie the other day? I die for you. Not the other way ‘round.”

    Zack lives. What next?

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    02 Mar 2025

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    “So I’m to be bait,” Akechi says flatly. “You’re serving me up.”

    Ren can feel the grin on his face, and he can’t stop it. “I gotta open the store tomorrow, I only serve coffee.”

    “Absolutely idiotic. Why would I agree to that?"

    Ren shrugs one shoulder and leans back against the movie theater wall, smiling. He’s feeling light on his feet right now. It’s been a bad day, but the end is nice. “Call it penance.”

    “Penance for what,” Akechi says.

    His smile stays where it is as he glances away for a moment, then meets Akechi’s eyes again. “Being yourself.”

    Summer vacation back in Tokyo was supposed to be two things: an exciting break from the mundanity of home, and a chance to see people he's missed so much it hurts. If he survives, Ren has good news for himself on both.

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    “Don’t be such a damned fool,” he chastises. “You are many things, Gale – garrulous, resourceful, devilishly handsome – but you are not nothing. Mystra does not define your existence any more than Cazador defined my own.”

    “The gods will never see any of us as equals,” Astarion mutters bitterly. “Do not mistake their attention for favor. You are useful only so far as you can be an extension of their power. I will not stand by a second time and watch you sacrifice yourself for nothing.”

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    Months after the defeat of the elder brain, Gale must come to terms with his new life and what it might mean for him to carry on without Mystra’s blessings.

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    Gale counterspelled half the fireballs with ease, immense power flicking from his fingertips as he strode confident across the ring. And he was…beautiful, in a very different way than Astarion was used to seeing him. Not the composed academic. Not the bumbling lecturer, or the overinflated pedant, this, this was…imposing, powerful, self-assured in a wonderfully dangerous sort of way. His hands moving with such confidence, his eyes dark, his earring glinting in the early morning light.

    Gale is eager to see the powers Astarion gained from reading the Necromancy of Thay. They prove surprising in more than one way.

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    A remix of Act 2 in which Gale gets more of a character arc resolution.

    “Gods damn it Gale!”
    Astarion leaps over him. The guard, poised to land an entirely excessive final blow to Gale’s skull, topples backwards with a knife in his gut. The second pierces his neck, sending him crashing to the ground. Astarion yanks his blades back, and drops to his knees beside Gale.
    “Oh no no no, you are not dying on me now.”
    Gale attempts to express something, but it comes out as a gurgle of bloody bubbles. The world swings to the side, black and spinning.
    “I swear, if it turns out I did just watch you spend the last of your magic sending your cat back to safety instead of saving your own damn skin-”
    The threat remains unfinished. A healing potion trickles between Gale’s lips.
    “Tressym,” Gale says, when he can finally trust his voice.
    Astarion is still crouched over him, cheeks flushed, sweat running down his brow and someone else’s blood smeared across his cheek. Gale has the sudden urge to kiss him.
    “What?”
    “She’s a tressym. Not a cat.”
    Astarion makes a noise of such furious, pained exasperation that Gale half expects the dagger to end up in his neck next.

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    29 Apr 2024