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    It's March of 2020. With the pandemic locking down people all over the world, Astarion Ancunin has a problem. It's awfully hard to charm people into sharing a bite when you can't get within six feet of a stranger. Luckily, he's thought of a solution - hire a live-in blood donor.

    Things are going swimmingly. He does a few interviews and finds a perfectly suitable candidate. And then she walks through his door.

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    21 Jun 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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    18 May 2025

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    “It’s not that I disagree with your approach, of course,” Lan Xichen remarked to Jin Guangyao on one of their night-hunts together, as much an excuse to get Jin Guangyao away from the uncomfortable atmosphere of Jinlin Tower and Lanling more generally as anything else. “It’s only a stylistic difference, really; your way is as good as mine. But I really feel I have to say something, since I don’t think your way has been working all that well, under the current circumstances.”

    “I…I’m not sure what you mean, er-ge,” Jin Guangyao said, after a brief pause. Normally he had a very good understanding of Lan Xichen, or so he thought, but at the moment he was utterly clueless.

    “I’m referring to the way you act pitiful and virtuous in order to get what you want,” Lan Xichen said, and something in Jin Guangyao’s brain came to a very sudden halt.

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    07 Sep 2024