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Failure & Fallacy

Chapter 15 - Quite the Handful

Summary: Gale and Halsin struggle to keeps their hands to themselves while the leader of their party questions the actions of their own.

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“You mustn’t tease me out there like that.” The wizard asserts with half hearted indignation as the door of the storage tent's entrance swings behind them.

“Tease you? I only recall reciting the lyrics of the esteemed bards Helena of Connelle and The Dean of Martiné”

“Oh, that’s all? Just a simple sing-song was it?”

Halsin holds both his hands to his heart in mock offense, all the less convincing as he struggles to keep in good-natured, near-giddy chortles. It makes it awfully difficult to pretend to be annoyed with him.

“Are you accusing me of having ulterior motives?”

“You didn’t want a kiss with your eggs?” Gale cocks an eyebrow, finally allowing his own teasing little retorting smirk to show

“Now, don’t put words in my mouth.” Halsin’s eyes flicker with excitement, his voice deepening to a low purr as he takes a step toward him, “I’d be partial to a kiss without the eggs, too.”

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Failure and Fallacy

Chapter 14 - Fire and Ice

Pairing: Gale/Halsin (brief references to Wyll/Astarion & Shadowheart/Laezel)

Summary: A number of the party are faced with highs and lows in their respective tepid ventures into something beyond cohabitation.

If asked, Gale would insist that it had simply been dust that had him misty eyed when Halsin had told him he wanted to be with him. The reality wasn’t exactly true. A little mortifyingly so.

After weeks of pining, almost losing the Druid on several occasions, the torturous build up of tension over the last few days and the last thirty minutes of a level of emotional and physical intimacy he could compare to very few of his past life experiences. At the acceptance of his offer of dinner, the dams had broken as Gale had choked back a sob and had flung himself with such force in the wood elf’s direction that he had sent his dearest toppling backwards, very nearly giving the poor man a concussion in the process, his fall - ironically - broken not by the vast assortment of cushions stacked around them but by the fabric of their thin and weather torn old bedrolls; the full weight of a fully grown adult wizard landing atop of him immediately afterward to add insult to quite possibly literal injury.

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Failure and Fallacy

Chapter 13 - Trust me

Summary: Halsin fulfils a promise and Gale continues to surprise him.

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As Halsin turns around he finds his breath taken away at the sight before him. The man that makes his heart stir lounged atop their merged bedrolls, propped upright by his assortment of pillows. Adorned in his vest with his cheeks subtly flushed as he watches him with keen anticipation. He’s blatantly nervous, but there’s something that clearly grounds the wizard there solidly.

Trust.

That alone means more than Halsin could possibly describe.

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Part 2 of this week’s double-update!

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Failure and Fallacy

Chapter 12 - Making a Splash

Summary: Halsin searches deep for a solution and Gale reflects on the beginning of the end.

“Shadowheart had been minding her business after her sunrise prayers, taking the opportunity to enjoy a walk by the shoreline before her colleagues awoke and started getting rowdy as usual. It was a recent routine she was becoming quite fond of. Calm. Serene. Quiet. All of these but the latter especially a significant rarity otherwise.

She smiles at the thought. How apt that in this place - perhaps thanks to the effect of her dark ladies influence on the land, her blessings upon her loyal devotee - that she had found herself fortunate enough to easily stumble upon these peaceful moments more frequently of late.

As if timed by Selune herself, Shadowheart skids to a halt as a stark-bollock-naked 7-foot tall druid storms out of the tent to her immediate left in a flash, almost sending her stumbling as he dives immediately for the nearby lake - apparently unawares or caring very little for her presence as he soaks her good camp clothes in the process, his head disappearing quickly under the water's surface.”

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If all goes as planned this’ll be one of two new chapters this week! Thanks all!

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Failure and Fallacy

Chapter 11 - Yours

Summary: Gale, Halsin and practically everyone else in camp are forced to ponder the nature of their “friendship”.

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“…You think a lot of this man.”

“I do.”

Halsin swallows. She had to know. Had herself noted that he was a man that fit “only one description.” Now seemed as good a time as ever to bring up the elephant in the room.

“We’re very close.”

Jaheira squints and raises an eyebrow,

“How cl—“

She halts mid-question as her eyes suddenly widen with a flash of recognition. She closes her mouth immediately. Sitting straight as she reels from the aftermath of her personal conclusion.

“…….I need a drink.”

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Failure & Fallacy

Chapter 10 - A Waking Nightmare

Summary: Gale has a plan. Halsin has a crisis.

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A redraw of @laiostoudenn's beautiful oakweave gifset <3.

I needed some proper ink practice, and these were so lovely I couldn't help myself.