#beastly!baz

Thanks for the tag @sillyunicorn, I love your happy!Baz (how did we not realize we need this trope?).

This is a snippet from an as yet unpublished chapter of Beastly, in which Baz finds himself slipping into an animalistic mind due to the curse, and needs something to anchor him in order to keep a grip on his human mind:

I try to conjure something, or someone, in my mind to anchor to. I imagine a familiar face. Blue eyes, bronze curls, freckle-kissed skin. I imagine Sir Snow is here with me, reaching out a hand. My human mind clings to this imaginary vision. I try to hold on with everything I have. I’m lying on my side now, with my arms wrapped around myself. I start to squeeze my upper arms with my hands, imagining it’s Sir Snow squeezing them. “Breathe, Baz,” he says. “Deep breaths love, you can do this.” I keep breathing and squeezing, staring into his blue eyes.

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