' On the bright side, the wizard only had the two manacles. That was fair enough, how often do you expect to have to chain up more than one ghost at a time? So Edwin and Charles each had one hand free. Even better, the twat had thought Charles’ bag of tricks was just an empty knapsack and hadn’t bothered to take it off him. He and Edwin were only about twelve feet apart from each other, too, so they could talk without having to shout. Ideal circumstances for escaping.
On the less bright side, enchanted manacles were new territory for Charles. He was glad they weren’t iron and didn’t burn, but he also couldn’t pick the bloody lock.
“Charles,” said Edwin. “Are you quite alright? You’ve been working on that lock for some time, now.”
“Sorry, mate, it’s a magic lock, innit?” said Charles. He grunted with frustration as the lock on his left wrist once again shifted around his pick. “Keeps bloody moving around if I make progress.” '
- Hold This by Roseganymede95 (Part 2 of Who? You mean your teammate in the Codependency World Cup?)
you should absolutely give their fics a read if you haven't already
all of them are equally silly and fun with the two dead boys being little codependent maniacs for each other
plenty of violence committed as evidence in said fics
