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Tav seemed perfectly normal in their day to day, but Astarion knew that she was avoiding him. It had been that way since the last time he had fed on her.
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05 May 2026
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Phainon cracks a sly smile, and it’s infuriating just how perfectly his mouth curves upwards, how his eyes moon slightly, the way his hair splays out across the ground like a silvery halo, marred by ash and dirt and blood.
Like dragging coal across frosted glass, Mydei wants to do nothing more than to ruin him.
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15 Apr 2025
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“Sooo…” Tribbie begins, soundly smacking her lips.
“What a situation,” Aglaea laments.
“I wonder who will help him,” is Trinnon’s two cents.
“Now’s your cue, De,” Trianne whispers at him from in between her tiny hands, like it wasn't damn obvious his fate was sealed the moment they all looked at him.
“Splendid idea. Leave it to the homicidal maniac to be his caretaker; what could possibly go wrong?”
Alternatively: A cursed Phainon can't speak, see or hear. Mydei is tasked with taking care of him until everything's sorted out.
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15 Apr 2025
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“Oh, gods forbid they respond positively to you doing a good thing,” Neve deadpans. She squeezes him a little again. “That’s sort of how it works, Astarion.”
She can’t even see it. Believes the best of them all so earnestly, himself included, that she can’t see how it would all fall away without her at the center. It’s enough to make a person feel like they might actually deserve it.
“And by it, you mean…?” he asks instead.
Her huffed laugh of disbelief ruffles the hair at his neck. “Friendship, you idiot,” she answers. “And the general acquisition thereof.”
Astarion cuts a sideways look at her as best he can with her still nestled so close. “And is that what we are? Friends?”
He’d meant it to tease her, and yet finds that the silence before her answer twists his stomach. Because…he doesn’t actually know, either.
“Yes, Astarion,” Neve says gently, after a moment. “I think we’re very good friends.”
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Neve and Astarion, continued. She's not a victim. Not a target. Not just one night it's better to forget. But then...whatever in the world could she be?
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06 Apr 2025
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“If this is an example of human spycraft,” said Garak eventually as James flirted his way out of a situation. “Then it’s surprising humans made it this far at all as a species.”
Julian grinned. “It’s fiction with some kernels of truth in it. The author was a spy in Earth’s World War II.”
Garak mumbled something under his breath, but his eyes stayed glued.
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Julian asks and Garak agrees to watch the ancient Earth films of James Bond together. It's not like it will awaken a heated desire in Julian to kiss Garak or anything. Definitely not.
Set after Our Man Bashir in Season 4 and into Season 5.
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11 Mar 2025