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With Arlow caught in Solas' trap, Lucanis struggles to hold out hope long enough for Spite to find her.
She screamed his name. It is the last thing he remembers. He does not remember pulling her into his arms, though he must have. He must have kissed her within an inch of her life, because there was no other way that he would have celebrated their victory. It was a victory, wasn’t it?
“Taash,” he says lowly, raising his haunted eyes to meet theirs. They have never been very good at concealing their emotions and from their grief he knows the answer to the question he asks anyway. “Where is Rook?”
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- Part 6 of no matter how far
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30 Apr 2026
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by waves I'm tossed (but they have never moved the stars) by inquisimer
Fandoms: Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game)
16 Aug 2025
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The child is unexpected, not unwanted. Holding their fate in her hands, Arlow confronts the doubts that linger from her contract with the Veilguard.
"If we raise them, how can they be anything other than exactly what we are?" she whispers. Thinks of Viago's hand pushing her off the docks; of Caterina's cane; of blood and sweat and bile, and how every story ends in a scar.
"Are we such a terrible thing to be?"
"I don't know anymore." The admission falls too fast from her lips, escaping before she can swallow it back. "I hate that I don't know anymore."
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- Part 7 of no matter how far
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06 Apr 2026
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you are the miracle, you are the dream by floricolous
Fandoms: Stardew Valley (Video Game)
28 Jul 2024
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Magnus counted — ten little fingers, ten little toes, and the two brightest eyes he had ever seen in his long, long life.
A daughter.
His.
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Or, Magnus gets to finally experience fatherhood firsthand with his and the farmer's newborn daughter.
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05 Apr 2026
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in sickness and in health by floricolous
Fandoms: Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game)
15 Dec 2025
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Rook felt like death.
Okay, bit of an exaggeration, but Rook had her blankets (several of them!) all the way up to her nose, surrounded all sides by pillows larger than she was, windows shut tight, no hint of a breeze coming through, and yet! She felt both cold and hot all over, hair stuck to her forehead, nightgown clinging uncomfortably to her skin beneath the nest she’d set up. Every breath was going to be her last, she was sure of it.
“Oh dear, you poor thing.” Emmrich’s voice floated from somewhere beyond the bed, soft steps pattering about the room before Rook eventually felt the bed dip with his weight.
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Or, Rook is sick. Emmrich takes care of her.
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- Part 24 of Thedas Weekend
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26 Feb 2026
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despair, not feast on thee by floricolous
Fandoms: Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game)
22 Feb 2026
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Emmrich measured time by the count of Rook’s breaths — deep, slow, and, by seemingly the Maker’s grace alone, steady. But beyond that, nothing else.
The sun returned to its place in the sky — by his guess — hours ago, after Elgar’nan’s defeat, now setting low on the horizon. The two of them were alone in the room they were given at the Chantry — small and private. All that could be afforded for their hero with Minrathous still in tatters, but he was grateful for the privacy all the same. A blessing that no one witness the way he clung to her like a child, his fingers intertwined with her limp ones, breath ghosting over her knuckles, wishing, praying for her to wake.
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Or, Rook collapses after the final battle and Emmrich stays at her bedside, despairing, until she wakes.
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- Part 27 of Thedas Weekend
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23 Feb 2026