SANCTUM AND HEALING (1/?)
anonymous
November 26 2011, 21:58:25 UTC
The amount of nervousness I am feeling at the moment cannot be expressed, so I will simply say thank you for the prompt, OP, and I hope that this suits! It has been a long, long while since I have filled a prompt on here, and I just hope that it pleases you, and that it does not get too long! (Though I can make no promises.) ♥ I sincerely hope that you enjoy!There were too many tentacles in the depths of Kal’Hirol
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SANCTUM AND HEALING (33/?)
anonymous
December 2 2011, 22:07:00 UTC
‘Something to drink?’ he asked, not looking Anders’s way. Instead, he stared into the middle distance, half his face illuminated by the bright firelight, the other side of him plunged into deep darkness. The pauldrons hid most of his expression, especially his mouth, so all Anders could see was the length of his lashes and the bridge of his nose, stark as the Vimmark mountainside and just as cold. ‘I find,’ Hawke continued, ‘that a good, stiff drink helps the bruises on my ass after a full day’s travel in that blighted wagon.’
Anders laughed, more of a worried hiccup than a happy sound. ‘I get drunk easily,’ he warned, taking the offered brandy without further complaint. ‘You might find me with an Orlesian lampshade on my head terrorizing Wildervale with my spicy shimmies after this.’
‘I’ll lock the door,’ Hawke said. ‘And if you kept the Orlesian lampshade on your head, I suppose it wouldn’t be a problem either way. Wildervale could use the good kind of excitement
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SANCTUM AND HEALING (34/?)
anonymous
December 2 2011, 22:12:33 UTC
‘And here I was promised lampshades and dancing,’ Hawke murmured over the rim of his glass. The words echoed along the hollow, whistling against the curve, heat from his breath misting the lip of the goblet. Anders took another drink, more of a gulp, also inadvisable, and was spluttering already by the time he realized he’d swallowed too much too fast.
This time, Hawke did clap him on the back, steady between his shoulders. Anders set the glass aside to rub his eyes and fan his face, feeling his cheeks flush red.
‘What do they put in this?’ Anders asked.
Hawke finally chuckled, a burnt sound, like the flakes of white bark turning to ash in the bottom of the hearth. ‘Better not to ask, I’ve found, when you don’t really want the answer to a question
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SANCTUM AND HEALING (35/?)
anonymous
December 2 2011, 22:18:14 UTC
A Free Mage outpost carefully guarded in the Free Marches-it was all too good to be true. But then, Anders had always imagined that a demon’s offer would be just that amount of alluring: something that made him so happy he never suspected what he was being forced to accept.
‘You’d like Isabela,’ Hawke said. His face was stark in profile; Anders could see the rough edges of the fading red streak over his noise, dim light dappling the hidden shadows of his face. ‘You…he always did.’
‘We’re going to need a name for ‘him,’ you know,’ Anders replied, in what he hoped were tones as decisive as he felt. He leaned over Hawke to refill his drink, the bottle’s neck slipping against the rim of his glass with a clack. Hawke’s hands were there to steady him at once, one wrapping warm over the back of Anders’s knuckles to retract the bottle. It was a surprise-not the touch but the heat that came alongside it. Anders had been convinced that Hawke was cold and hard as the mountains they’d met in, so it was strange to think of him as just another
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SANCTUM AND HEALING (37/?)
anonymous
December 2 2011, 22:30:04 UTC
Demons always heard those whispers, discontentment and wistfulness and longing and fear, and there were times when you never knew if the fluffy kitten was there because you liked kittens or there because a demon knew you liked kittens
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SANCTUM AND HEALING (38/?)
anonymous
December 2 2011, 22:37:03 UTC
‘Can I really?’ Anders asked. ‘You aren’t just saying that? Next thing I know you’ll be telling me I can call you darling-it’s all moving so fast.’ In the distance, he could hear the strains of ghostly wooden swords clacking against one another in pale imitation of the practice yard. Something tickled at the back of his mind, like the brush of a stray feather or Hawke’s gray pauldrons against his wrist. Anders reminded himself of one of Karl’s old lessons, to ask the important questions first and the foolish questions never to garner better answers. He took a deep breath. ‘…Did you make all this? A place where neither of us would ‘get lost
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SANCTUM AND HEALING (38b/?)
anonymous
December 2 2011, 22:48:32 UTC
It sounded like a promise, but the other side of that sovereign was a threat, and if Anders had learned anything in his time at the Circle, it was not to trust any mages he met while in the Fade, no matter what they offered and no matter how honest they looked.
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Augh. Livejournal does not seem to be cooperating today whatsoever. So sorry about all the delays and I am truly wondering if the site will actually load this part! ♥ For future reference, there is a mirror of the fill updated chapter by chapter at AO3 HERE and the link to the latest update is HERE! So sorry about all the difficulties and again, thanks so much for sticking with it and reading and the comments, as they truly make my day. Especially after Livejournal attempts to do the opposite. See you at the end of the weekend!
SANCTUM AND HEALING (39/?)
anonymous
December 4 2011, 22:03:47 UTC
Ahhhh, I cannot thank you enough for the comments once again. I'm really glad you're still enjoying it and still braving it out despite Livejournal's failures--and, of course, the fact that it's getting so long. ♥ Hopefully the next installment will please and Livejournal will behave. I cannot thank you enough for reading and replying and now I will post!‘Blondie,’ someone called, in a warm voice that brought to mind taprooms and glittering golden jewelry. ‘Come on, Blondie, help an old dwarf out. Breakfast started hours ago, and I can’t hold them off the bacon forever
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Anders laughed, more of a worried hiccup than a happy sound. ‘I get drunk easily,’ he warned, taking the offered brandy without further complaint. ‘You might find me with an Orlesian lampshade on my head terrorizing Wildervale with my spicy shimmies after this.’
‘I’ll lock the door,’ Hawke said. ‘And if you kept the Orlesian lampshade on your head, I suppose it wouldn’t be a problem either way. Wildervale could use the good kind of excitement ( ... )
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This time, Hawke did clap him on the back, steady between his shoulders. Anders set the glass aside to rub his eyes and fan his face, feeling his cheeks flush red.
‘What do they put in this?’ Anders asked.
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‘You’d like Isabela,’ Hawke said. His face was stark in profile; Anders could see the rough edges of the fading red streak over his noise, dim light dappling the hidden shadows of his face. ‘You…he always did.’
‘We’re going to need a name for ‘him,’ you know,’ Anders replied, in what he hoped were tones as decisive as he felt. He leaned over Hawke to refill his drink, the bottle’s neck slipping against the rim of his glass with a clack. Hawke’s hands were there to steady him at once, one wrapping warm over the back of Anders’s knuckles to retract the bottle. It was a surprise-not the touch but the heat that came alongside it. Anders had been convinced that Hawke was cold and hard as the mountains they’d met in, so it was strange to think of him as just another ( ... )
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Augh. Livejournal does not seem to be cooperating today whatsoever. So sorry about all the delays and I am truly wondering if the site will actually load this part! ♥ For future reference, there is a mirror of the fill updated chapter by chapter at AO3 HERE and the link to the latest update is HERE! So sorry about all the difficulties and again, thanks so much for sticking with it and reading and the comments, as they truly make my day. Especially after Livejournal attempts to do the opposite. See you at the end of the weekend!
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Also loving Feynriel here more than I already do <33
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