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“What I’m saying is— I understand.”
He catches Dream’s hand in his. His touch is careful, soft like a summer breeze. It makes Dream’s breath catch somewhere under his breastbone.
“I know how it is to live against everyone’s expectations. How to live in spite of them.”
Dream stares at their intertwined fingers, feels Hob’s pulse in his fingertips. It’s a beautiful, quiet thing; it’s the first time he’s felt quiet in ages.
(Or: Dream de Endless was suppose to be his family’s most prized jewel, but when he is taken, he loses the last thing the world considered valuable about him. Broken down to his core, he does not expect anyone to want him again. Until Robert Gadling walks into his life.)
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15 Jun 2023
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Of all the unusual things Hob Gadling has come across in his long immortal life, he thinks perhaps one of the strangest things is finding Dream of Endless holding council with a colony of stray cats just outside The New Inn.
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- Part 7 of Seiya's 2023 Dreamling Bingo
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05 Jun 2023
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Hob leans back in his chair, a tight look in his eyes. “I think we both know why the divorce happened,” he says, a sharp edge back into his tone like earlier in the day. Except this time he seems to be painfully aware of it. “Gods, sorry.”
“No, you’re not.” Dream is surprised to find it doesn’t sound like an accusation.
Hob smiles and it’s back to being sad.
“No, I’m not.” He looks away. There’s a tick in his jaw muscle, like he wants to say more, but in the end he just sighs and stands up.
(Or: How Dream and Hob learn to heal, listen and love again.)
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26 Apr 2023
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Like many tales, it starts like this:
Dream falls in lust with an older man across the pub.Like others, it almost ends like this:
Hob stumbles in to give his first lecture of the semester, shocked to find the man he's already half in love with in the back row.Series
- Part 1 of between the shadow and the soul
- Part 8 of dreamling bingo 2023
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24 Apr 2023
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"I am. Endless. But there are still... things that I am Not."
'Lovable' is at the top of the list, he thinks, though 'wanted' isn't far behind.
'Woman' is on there somewhere too, apparently.
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17 Apr 2023