Netherese Duality
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“You carry me well,” his orb murmurs, finding its voice. What was once a strange echo of whispers has settled into something rich and baritone: something more befitting the dark, decadent marks upon Gale’s skin. “So curious. So clever. So…hungry.”
There is a throb in his gut at the word hungry. The pain of a man starved for days, stomach distended and left wanting. Gale drops both hands and rolls on his side with a groan. He feels the distinct sensation of nails scraping through his hair and it takes him a moment to realize they are his own. Petting. Soothing.
“So feed, Gale. Feed me. Feed…us.”
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- Part 1 of Netherese Duality
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Gale is used to catching the eyes of the otherworldly. It shimmers like oil over water in the corners of one’s vision. It’s only he’s accustomed to getting an answer back: soft, feminine and tucked gently behind his ear.
Whatever follows him now offers no such comforts. There are nights he feels eyes heavy on his back in the dark of his study, only to turn and find himself alone. And there are mornings, still, when shadows pass over the candle by his bed the moment he wakes– as if some presence had been watching him from his bedside.
Isolated in his tower, Gale is less alone than he thinks.
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- Part 2 of Netherese Duality
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Gale teases the orb with a feather-light touch. There’s a familiar chill as his fingertips sinks into the thick, honeyed pull of pure magic. Too fast, too tight. Does he not deserve a little pain?
As he raises the dagger it seems to relax. And the pleas become 'sink in slow' as a thousand little tongues lap tentatively at his skin, slicking his fingers in dripping wet weave. He lets them sink up to the knuckle. It’s obscene. It’s a ghastly lover’s preparation, easing the way for the bloody knife.
Though, he supposes, Mystra had done the same for him. To him.
Damn it all.
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- Part 3 of Netherese Duality