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Hold My Hopes Underwater / Stand There and Watch Them Drown by AspenShade
Fandoms: Green Creek Series - T.J. Klune
02 Jun 2025
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Mark, after the confrontation on the porch.
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“I would like you to know me,” Caleb says.
It feels like a secret. Like the darkest part of him cracked open; all his months and years of hiding, of wrapping his arms and scratching the bindings, of not loving, not loving anything but an unkillable cat — it’s unraveling around him. He feels naked. He feels the way he did the first time Pumat Sol spelled him clean.
“I find that — I would like you to know me,” he says, again.
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12 May 2026
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what do i see in your eyes (besides my reflection, hanging high) by neinofthem (jeyneofpoole)
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
20 Jun 2022
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But no, she was here at Caleb’s shitty table, across from Essek, who’s boring holes into the rough-hewn wood with downcast eyes. The thing about Essek, she muses, was that he felt that he was so indebted to the Nein that he was willing to do almost anything to avoid being an inconvenience. Which might, she thinks, be sort of toxic.
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06 May 2026
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"It is a pleasure to see you again, Master Thelyss," Trent says in an entreating voice. "It has been so long! Imagine my surprise when my Volstrucker found you skulking about the Biting North."
The spell does not compel a reply, so Essek does not dignify this false pleasantry with a rejoinder.
Trent smiles and takes a sip of his wine. It shines ruby red in the dim gold of the candlelight.
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Trent abducts Essek after the Nein's break in at Vergesson. They have a conversation about a mutual pupil over dinner.
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04 May 2026
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Ikithon’s voice presses softly into his head. I’m pleased you made use of him. You were always talented at bending others to your goals. Even far from home, you make me proud.
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Old habits are hard to break, even if you have shed the skin that formed them.
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04 May 2026
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the other things that make us by saturdaysky for LadyOrpheus
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
22 Aug 2021
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Essek returns, when he can, to the sanctuary of Caleb's home. The peace of it is a balm against the tedious peril of the road, which has more misery to share than Essek had ever thought. It's nice to have a place where he can lose himself: in a book, in arcane study, in the confusing allure of Caleb's smile.
It's nice. And the cats miss him, Caleb says.
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