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Just a short claw-length away, another hermit crab stares back at him. A male. His pheromones drift on the current.
This one is smaller and slimmer, shell so pale it almost seems carved from moonlight. With a body that's translucently white, the faint workings beneath his shell are just barely visible. A pump of blood rushing fast and erratic. Red eyes gleam at Gale, wide and startled.
Along the back of this pale one's carapace runs a thin, healed crack, discolored and jagged like an old fault line in stone. It tells a story of pain, when safety could not be found, when something vast must have crushed down upon this poor crab and ignored his shell.
Or what passes for a shell. Because this hermit crab seems to be in a similar predicament to Gale.
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Hermit Crab Bloodweave AU.
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20 Feb 2026
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The long and heavy quiet of the Underdark inspires an unexpected observation.
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12 Feb 2026
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1917 — As the known world fractures, Gale leaves the city in an attempt to rediscover why it is he’s even still staggering around in his own dark.
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12 Feb 2026
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These days, most everybody in camp had learned to wave away Astarion’s advances with a laugh. They found the flirtation titillating, Gale figured, or a bit threatening, or some combination of the two. He wondered if anybody else found it sad.
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Good old-fashioned rumination on choice and compulsion. Gale and Astarion shake off their metaphorical shackles.- Language:
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10 Feb 2026
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He turned to Gale after the initial shock faded, holding the collar up for him to inspect.
"This is magic," Astarion pointed out.
"Indeed," said Gale, eyes narrowed at it. "A rather... simple kind, but effective, given the purpose as it were. Rather clever way to call a trained dog home."
"How simple?"
At that, Gale's calculating gaze flicked to Astarion. He smiled very, very slowly.
"A matter of attunement?" Gale surmised. "After that, I could enchant practically anything."
Gale helps Astarion rediscover self-pleasure without (technically) touching him.
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08 Feb 2026