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Kibellah, on her knees.
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Too easy, to imagine it like she’s really seen it a hundred times before, like it’s familiar to her as breathing, like there’s room for her to slip in. Like it’s anything more than a well-worn fantasy as easy to slip into as a favorite pair of shoes, perfectly broken in.
She shuts her eyes and it unfurls before her in her mind’s eye, nearly close enough to reach out and touch.
In which Wyll and Astarion accompany Karlach to Avernus, and she can't help wanting more.
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Wherein Grand Duke Ravengard takes a much-needed break from his duties, and encounters a certain vampire.
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Nemesis still vividly recalls the contented sound the princess had made as she’d submerged her body beneath the waters of the hot spring, her eyes closing with simple delight. Like such a rest was really owed to her. To them.
With irritation, Nemesis had stalked away, visions of bared softness and gold clinging to flesh and lean muscle rippling filling her mind. All she’d been able to hear was the rush of her own blood in her ears, accompanied by the memory of Melinoë sighing with contentment.
Nemesis had been sick with it, anger flooding molten through her.
In which Nemesis can't get the princess out of her head.
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“Some sort of doctor you are!” Shadowheart accuses. “Don’t tell me, your ‘practice’ here is simply subterfuge for drinking all the mortal blood you can find…”
To her credit, the doctor doesn’t look abashed at all, not one bit. She only looks back at Shadowheart steadily.
“You wouldn’t have come here if ordinary remedies had proved any help.”
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This Bit of Soiled Sadness by Fleuressent
Fandoms: The Warm Hands of Ghosts - Katherine Arden
18 Jun 2026
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“Oblivion—isn’t the answer,” you say haltingly, but who are you trying to convince?
“No?” says Faland. One green eye flickers in the pitch black. “What is it, then? Scrounging around on your empty island waiting for death? Purposeless and useless. I will say what needs to be said, Iven: Winter does not need you anymore. You kept him alive during the war. But now there’s no war, and so there is nothing to protect him from except your own festering presence.”
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Life begins anew in the West, and everyone is moving on from the war, but Freddie fears he is being left behind.
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10 Jul 2026
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The Next Best Thing by Sixthlight for Esteliel
Fandoms: Rivers of London - Ben Aaronovitch
17 Dec 2016
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Telepathy – in the sense of somebody reading your thoughts – is not, so far as Nightingale or I or any other Newtonian wizards I’ve met to date are aware, a real thing.
That wasn’t much consolation right now.
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“A strategic deflection,” Guleed repeated. “From someone asking Nightingale out. On a date. Which, for the record, is allowed.”
“I know it’s allowed,” I said, mostly into my collar. “I just didn’t think—”
“Clearly,” said Patel.
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“And what are you in the mood for, Louis?” Lestat could have fallen to his knees and wept. The beauty of Louis, his heat, his heart. What was the hurt Lestat felt compared to that? Nothing, a mere blip. “Aside from litigation and smoking my cigarettes and siphoning money from my merchandise?”
Or: After the meeting with their lawyers, Louis finds Lestat outside.
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16 Jun 2026
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nobody taught her it takes a lot of water (to wash away New Orleans) by aletterinthenameofsanity for DontOffendTheBees
Fandoms: Interview with the Vampire (TV 2022)
15 Jun 2026
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Claudia swallows. “I’m not a prostitute. Louis—he adopted me, when my parents left and the rooming-house burned down.”
Grace startles. At the admission of death or the admission of adoption, she can't be sure. If Grace knows Louis' true nature, of his relationship with Lestat, then she must have predicted that her brother would never have a child.
Then—Grace winces. “My brother’s daughter,” she says, voice quiet, voice contemplative, voice regretful, and she manages to make the title sound like more than Louis or Lestat ever has.
Her mother died. Her father ran off. Her adoptive parents let her burn.
Claudia is cursed to a half-existence forever because Louis missed the woman in front of her so much that he wanted to replace her.
But when Grace says my brother's daughter, some part of Claudia thinks "I am both of their daughter, I've got Lestat's hunger and Louis' ache, and Grace just sees the parts of me that are human."
(Grace meets Claudia next to a grave before her mother's funeral, and things go a little bit differently.)
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