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( text | un: laserhawk )

[laserhawk]

Just checking in.

You're doing okay? Do you need a top up?

[backscar]

I'm not sure if 'fine' is the correct term, but I'm well enough. I didn't realise you were so eager to be bitten, darling.

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[ragemodes]

Hey you. Miss me?

[backscar]

Where have you been?

[ragemodes]

Back home, I think. I don't know, it's all kind of fuzzy. How long was I gone?

[backscar]

It has been weeks, Karlach.

1/2

[ragemodes]

Weeks? Shit.

[ragemodes]

I'm sorry, Astarion.

[backscar]

Oh, don't. You're back, and no worse for wear, I hope.

[ragemodes]

Of course not. Nothing's going to get me down for long, you know that.

Where are you? Because I owe you a fucking hug. And -- how have you been?

[backscar]

You missed a masked ball. [ As if he was actually going to answer that, Karlach. ] I'm at the treehouse.

[laserhawk]

I'm not that masochistic.

Just figured you wouldn't want to feel trapped.

[backscar]

It could be worse. There are fewer rats here.

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[ragemodes]

Aww, I missed my chance to be fancy.

I'll be there shortly.

( And she's true to her word, not taking long to get back to the place they'd started to consider a home. Or at least a place as much as home as their usual campgrounds. She's happy to be back, happy to know Astarion is still here, though she can't imagine how he might feel. About being left alone, to fend for himself.

Shit. So Karlach swallows thickly before she knocks and lets herself in, shoulders relaxing as things look relatively the same. )

Astarion? You there, Fangs?

[laserhawk]

Trapped is trapped.

With or without rats.

[backscar]

I've been trapped in far worse than this.

[laserhawk]

So have I.

Doesn't mean we have to do it again. Even in a better place.

[backscar]

[ The utter relief he feels at her return is overwhelming, and he pushes himself up as soon as he hears her lumbering up the ladder. Another time, he might make some comment about anyone and everyone hearing her coming, but now isn't the time.

He's glad she's back, a bubble of warmth inside of him, and he goes to meet her with a scowl. ]

It took you long enough.

[backscar]

A treehouse is fine, in that case.

But, to focus on your actual question, I should be fine for a few more days.

[laserhawk]

All right.

Keep me posted?

[backscar]

I'll contact you this weekend.

She's back, by the way. The woman I told you about.

[laserhawk]

Good.

[ he's not sure what else to say. dolph doesn't have friends. ]

[backscar]

I'll introduce you. She's painfully likeable, but don't tell her I said so, if you please.

[laserhawk]

[ oh. now that is surprising. ]

I won't. But why?

[backscar]

She'll get all excited about it, like a puppy with a bone.