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  1. Public Bookmark 71

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    “Words are cheap, darling,” Astarion says with a roll of his eyes. “If you want to impress me, best stick to more tangible things.”

    Wyll writes a poem. (With apologies to Wyllyam Shakespeare.)

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    14 Jun 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 23

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    “Mark but this spawn, and mark in this,
    How little that which thou deniest me is;
    I sucked you first, and now suck me,
    And in myself our two bloods mingled be;
    Thou know’st that this cannot be said
    A sin, nor shame, nor loss of maidenhead,
    Yet this I enjoy before I woo,
    And pampered swell with one blood made of two,
    So what’s a little fumble going to do?”

    (Astarion sloppily plagiarizes a poem (“The Flea”) in his quest to seduce Wyll. He doesn’t expect Wyll’s response to piss him off so badly, but he is soon engaged in a poetical fight to the death. At least, that’s how he sees it.)

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    13 Jun 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 46

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    Complaint was good. Complaint was healthy. Complaint was what kept one clinging to their self by their fingernails, or else you’d end up like Aurelia, just this silent passive servile shadow to Cazador at all times.

    In which Astarion becomes convinced that Wyll needs Astarion to teach him how to complain, and he might not entirely be wrong about that.

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    13 Jun 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 2

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    Songs go both ways.

    During the years they spend apart, Astarion hears of the Blade of Frontiers. But what does the Blade hear back?

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    12 Jun 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 16

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    It starts with the cracked pavement, littered with oil stains from the litany of beat-up cars that had parked there. Up on the gas station awning, there's a buzzing LED sign that’s gone half dark. When he inhales, sharp , the air is dry, dusty with the song of a coming monsoon.

    Beyond the clear swinging glass doors, florescence lighting beckons him into the store. Inside, where the smell of cold coffee and clean tile is overwhelming, where soda slush spills out into the floor, where cigarettes lay locked behind a rounding counter in the center of the store.

    Behind the counter, as always, is the cashier, with bright eyes and a dingy uniform and dark hair shorn short on the side. And always, she smiles when she sees him.

    "Hey, soldier," she says. "Long day?"

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    Whumptober Day 11: Convenience Store

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    11 Jun 2026