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He said "I love you" at the celebration.
It was a game. A performance. He's used those words before-on victims, on strangers, with a smile on his lips and blood on his hands. But now that the party is over, and the silence sets in, Astarion is left alone with the one thing he can't charm his way out of: himself.
A story about masks, echoes, and the fear of what's left underneath.