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    Tessa, Gale, and Astarion are thrown in jail. Gale is locked up in a cell on the other side of the wall. The three of them have nothing to do but wait for Minsc to come find them.

    Astarion has some interesting ideas on how to pass the time. (By the hells. Sex, my dear.) He doesn't mind if Gale listens. But, if the wizard wants to use their little tadpole friends to watch, well, he'll have to beg.

    “Don’t be coy now,” Astarion purred. “You two aren’t as discreet as you think. I’ve heard you talking about me.”
    “What exactly have you heard?” Gale asked.
    “Enough. Just know that I’m very interested,” Astarion said.

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    Gale retires to his tent early, hardly touching the dinner he prepared, no pleasantries exchanged, no goodnights doled out. Tav can't resist the urge to check in on him. Gale's not in the mood for talking and the only thing he's hungry for is her.

    𓇢𓆸𓇢𓆸𓇢𓆸𓇢𓆸𓇢𓆸𓇢𓆸𓇢𓆸𓇢𓆸𓇢𓆸𓇢𓆸𓇢𓆸𓇢𓆸𓇢𓆸𓇢𓆸
    Drink this wine from your sweet, from your case
    I feel your love, I feel your faithful ways
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    25 Jun 2026

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    Verso is rinsing out his spare shirt in the river when he hears crunching footfalls on moss. He continues his idle work, which really was little more than an excuse to let the rattled Expeditioners stew over their situation in peace. The steps pause somewhere behind him.

    “Sneaking off already?”

    A man’s voice—it has to be Gustave, Maelle’s guardian. Strange to think it’s the first time he hears it.

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    Belle Époque Paris, 1913. Verso Dessendre is very good at being wanted. It is, in fact, the only thing the world has ever been willing to pay a ruined aristocrat for, and he has made his peace with that.

    Then Gustave Virlogeux — celebrated conductor of the Opéra, one hand of flesh and one of steel, immovable as a closed door — catches him breaking into the rehearsal hall to play a piano in the dark. Instead of calling the gendarmes, he offers Verso a real chance and an honest wage, and commits the truly unforgivable sin of refusing to be charmed.

    This is a story about a maestro who won't play along, a brat who won't behave, and a grand piano that did not consent to any of this. It is also, underneath all that, a story about being wanted for the whole of yourself — scars, ruin, and all — by someone who refuses to let you sell the one true thing you've got.

    Or: a maestro who conducts in bed exactly as he does on the podium, a pianist whose every seduction technique fails spectacularly and repeatedly (until it doesn't), and one grand piano that did not survive the experience.

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    07 Jun 2026

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    Lune and Verso find a comfortable place to compose and discuss the creative process. Collaboration, after all, is give and take.

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    29 May 2026