Keeping Secrets

Keeping Secrets: Chapter Eighty-Two

Truth or Dare You realize halfway down the stairs from the Great Hall that you’re doing the exact thing you promised Solas you wouldn’t do. Leaving, alone, to walk through the night where there are probably any number of humans who might want to finish the job that Underhill started. While still bandaged up. So, basically, with a huge lyrium-lit sign announcing who you are and how easy it would be to jump you. Sigh.…

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Keeping Secrets

Keeping Secrets: Chapter Eighty-One

You’re Awake You awaken in a bolt of pure panic to the sensation of probing magic. Your eyes snap open, you bolt upright, and you shove the person looming over you full in the chest. Your first instinct is to run now and figure out where you are later, but your head is spinning violently enough to give you pause. Your vision goes blurry and the world threatens to go black. “Emma, it’s just me!”…

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Microblog 7/6/25

Happy various independence days to Algeria (France), Burundi (Belgium), Rawanda (Belgium), Comoros (France), Cape Verde (Portugal), São Tomé and Príncipe (Portugal), Peru (Spain), Venezuela (Spain), Argentina (Spain), Colombia (Spain), Canada (Britain), the US (Britain), the Philippines (US) The Bahamas (Britain), Kiribati (Britain), the Maldives (Britain), Malawi (Britain), the Solomon Islands (Britain), Vanuatu (Britain AND France), Somalia (Britain AND Italy wow rare Italy mention) and Anguilla (Britain, hope you guys get a new one soon). That…

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Keeping Secrets

Keeping Secrets: Chapter Eighty

Morning Shock You take medicine when the cold starts sinking into your sore bones, but while it makes you just as loopy as ever, it doesn’t put you to sleep. You spend the night staring vaguely up at the ceiling, wondering what you’re going to do all winter, when it’s too cold to leave the fortress and sleep in the woods outside Skyhold. You almost hate yourself for hoping it, but if Solas gets sent…

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Keeping Secrets: Chapter Seventy-Nine

Elven Fears Despite your determination to share your food with Solas, there’s still quite a bit left after the two of you have eaten your fill. There’s a fairly good chance you’d just keep eating it if you brought the leftover soft, baked sweets to your desk, but you think of a better idea. You gather the sweets, excuse yourself, and head up into the library. You acquiesce to give Dorian a muffin, but your…

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