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He closes his hand around it, and feels the fluttering grow quick. Well, now he’s definitely scared it. Is it a butterfly that had been hiding down here the whole time? Why would a hawk put that much effort into trying to catch a single butterfly?
Pulling his hand back out, Techno keeps his fingers curled closed around whatever he’s caught, reaching his other hand up to try and keep the thing from flying away.
He pauses with the sight of a- person. In his palm.
A tiny person.
With wings.
(Or, in which Technoblade lives out in the middle of nowhere in a cozy cottage, thinking that will mean he doesn't have to deal with neighbors. He was wrong. He's got some faerie neighbors.)
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Giving Sanctuary by Avelera for Steerpike13713
Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022), The Sandman (Comics)
07 Jun 2023
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In 1689, Hob Gadling and Dream meet once more, after Hob has lost everything. That night, their meeting goes on longer than expected when the conversation turns to what it means to live, to lose, and to be the fathers of dead sons. Unable to bear the thought of sending a man who so echoes Dream's own grief back into the night alone, Dream breaks his own rule and invites Hob to stay with him for a time, at least until he can get back on his feet.
The story of two grief-stricken, divorced, and widowed fathers to sons they lost too young truly seeing one another and there, at their lowest point, doing their best to put themselves and each other back together.
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- Part 1 of Giving Sanctuary
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The thing is ugly. It’s roundish and bumpy and its spines are black and irregular. The more Hob looks at it, the more he’s impressed by how truly horrid it looks.
He reaches out and picks it up, careful to not hurt himself with the damn spines. “Perfect,” he murmurs to himself.
“Excellent find,” a deep and beautiful voice says, making him almost jump. “You have chosen a magnificent specimen.”
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Or, Hob is set on finding the ugliest gift for the head of his department and things (don't) go as planned.
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Chronically touch-starved but unwilling to admit it, Dream copes by disguising himself as a cat, visiting the Waking, and encouraging humans to pet him.
For thousands of years, it wasn’t a problem. And then there was Hob Gadling.
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"I would like it to be you," Dream says, in the most painfully earnest way possible. "You have cared for me in my hour of greatest need. You are my truest friend."
It's amazing, Hob thinks, that being human has done nothing to dampen Dream's more dramatic tendencies. No one in Hob's long life has ever talked about sex quite like this. Like it's a grave task to undergo, one that the fate of the world may or may not hinge on.
2023 Dreamling Bingo Fill for C5 - Self-Esteem Issues.
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- Part 1 of take it easy
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There is a numbing prickle down the back of Arthur's neck - inside his throat, too, crawling down to settle into the depths of his chest and between his ribs - where surprise should have kindled but instead a strange indifference burns.
“You have magic too, don’t you?” Child-Merlin asks, very quietly, releasing Arthur as the guards wander out of sight. “That’s how you came so far with your disguise. That’s how you know who I am.”
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Merlin poked his head out of the bush, still clinging tentatively to a stem.
The man's chest was heaving as his breath came in harsh pants and he started to discard his clothing, piece by piece.
When the man removed his trousers, Merlin's eyes grew as wide as saucers.
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“No.” He whispered fiercely. “I know how to release it from within Merlin's body. We will free him before it comes to that. It was just a dream.” It had to just be a dream. That couldn’t be their ending after everything.
Morgana stared him in the eyes, her face hardening. Tears glistened on her cheeks, but she was deadly serious as she shook her head in defeat. “No, Arthur. If there is one thing you need to know about my visions, it’s that my dreams always, always come true.”
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As only second in line for the throne, Arthur should have expected to one day be sent off to marry a princess far away. He hadn't expected it. Nor had he expected to be betrayed and imprisoned by an evil sorcerer along the way. Even less did he expect to meet someone there who would change his life forever.
As for Merlin, he never thought there was anything other than this life. This prison. This ruin that was his magic. It only took one person to show him there was something more worth fighting for.
But at what cost?
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After encountering a powerful witch, Arthur is turned into a dragon – only to be rescued by the last of the dragonlords. Who happens to be his manservant. Which is only the first of the unfathomable and upsetting facts that Arthur is learning about Merlin’s life, about dragons, and about his own heart.
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After a plague ravages Albion, an orphaned Merlin arrives in Camelot, where he falls in the hands of the criminal Kanen. Too afraid to use his magic, Merlin has no other choice but to join Kanen’s gang of child thieves and steal to survive. Ten months later, Prince Arthur returns from a mission to a crime-infested city and disarrayed court, with King Uther paralysed by grief over Morgana’s death. Determined to restore order, Arthur tackles the task of cleaning up the Lower Town, where he meets Merlin—only to learn that the problems in Camelot run far deeper than he had first thought…