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Safe at last at the Last Night Inn, Astarion finds Tav in the bath. But he can't help but spoil the moment with another demand - when is she going to tell people about them. Why keep their relationship a secret? Why not acknowledge they care for each other? Why, after everything, doesn't she trust him? And Tav, usually so quiet, is sick of it, and finally tells him why she's so determined to not let anyone know.
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He leaned his head back against the tub, feeling like he’d been drained. Tav sounded like she was finished now, and he wondered if that meant they were finished too.Was she wrong, really, about any of it?
Still not sure what to say, he just listened to the sound of scrubbing fingers, splashing water, hair being wrung out, the occasional sobbing breath that she choked down. Until she was done taking her anger out on her beautiful hair and she sat quietly, probably hoping he’d just leave and get it over with, before anyone found out about them and she had to explain it.
She was wrong about a lot of it, he thought.
“Little Star,” he said abruptly.
“What?” she replied, distracted momentarily by confusion.
“My name,” he continued. “'Astarion’. It means ‘Little Star’."