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    “In the Zemni Fields,” he says, after a moment, gesturing at the table, “this would already be lit.”
    Essek inclines his head. “I know.” A wiry curve of a smile. “You were working late.”

    On the longest night of the year, Caleb observes a quiet Zemnian tradition meant to honor endurance and survival.

    Essek joins him - not out of obligation or curiosity, but because this night matters.

    They keep watch. They tell stories. They wait for the sun.

    Fluffcember 2025 Prompt Fill || Day 22 || Solstice

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    30 Dec 2025

  2. Public Bookmark 31

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    “I hope they’re not dead,” Jester says, half-laughing, the words tossed out like a charm against bad luck.
    “Yeah,” Molly replies easily, flashing that bright, unbothered grin of his. “That’s something we can find out in the morning.”

    They joke because they think they have time.

    A canon-adjacent look at what happens when Caleb and Nott nearly die in the basement during Episode 13 - a story about fractured trust, Fjord’s new understanding of certain things, and the moment Molly decides that “later” isn’t always enough.

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    29 Dec 2025

  3. Public Bookmark 34

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    Caleb stares at Mollymauk.
    Had he… said any of that aloud?
    Or was Molly smart enough to know to check for those things?
    "I'm incredibly intelligent," Molly winks. "Honestly, it wounds me you would doubt that."
    Jester snorts despite her obvious worry.
    Caleb blinks, unsure whether to laugh or cry or simply exhale the breath trapped in his chest.

     

    The avalanche doesn’t kill them.

    The cold nearly does.

    Separated from the rest of the Mighty Nein and forced into shelter by a relentless storm, Caleb finds himself trapped in close quarters with Molly and Jester - and confronted with the unfamiliar weight of being cared for when he can’t care for himself.

    A hurt/comfort fic about being held through the cold, and what it means when someone chooses not to let go.

    Fluffcember 2025 Prompt Fill | Day Twenty | Avalanche
    Fluffcember 2025 Prompt Fill | Day Seventeen | Cabin Fever

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  4. Public Bookmark 64

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    **MAJOR SPOILERS FOR 1X06!! DO NOT READ BELOW!!**

    “Do you have any idea,” Essek demands, voice breaking at last, “what it is like to murder your own mother?”
    For a heartbeat, Caleb does not move.
    Then he nods.
    “Yes,” he says. “I do.”

    A re-imagining of the confrontation from episode 97 from the original campaign, with this new alternate Essek backstory from the animated series, told from Essek's POV. Mostly Caleb and Essek focused, with some canon Jester and Caduceus dialogue.

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    The scent of caramel shouldn’t undo him. Gods, it shouldn’t.
    But the snow is falling soft as breath, and Jester is laughing, and the sugar in the pot is turning gold -
    and Caleb Widogast feels twelve years old and warm and safe for the first time in more than a decade.

    A winter storm pins the Mighty Nein in a quiet glade, and Jester decides the best cure for boredom is making caramel candy over the campfire. But when the scent of browning sugar sends Caleb spiraling into memories he hasn’t touched since childhood, Jester gently coaxes him toward something unexpected: the possibility that sweetness - not just suffering - might still belong to him.
    Fluffcember 2025 Prompt Fill | Day Two | Caramel

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