#mutual pining hell

✨ FIC UPDATE ✨

Death's Kiss | Chapter 49: The Quiet Before the Storm Fandom: Dragon Age: The Veilguard Pairing: Rook/Emmrich Volkarin Rating: Explicit Tags: Angst, Hurt/Comfort, Slow Burn, Necromancer Boyfriend Problems™, and Dalish Cultural Feels

Chapters: 49/70 Word Count: 316k+ Still full of necromancy and yearning. Yes, there is kissing. Yes, there is emotional sex. Yes, they are still stupid about their feelings.

A dream? A memory? Or truth worn like a mask—this was how it began.

Evie did not remember falling asleep. There was no threshold, no border. One breath she was tucking Franny in, the next she was somewhere older than time. The land accepted her without protest. The ground folded gently beneath her feet—pliant, reverent. Sand shimmered beneath her shadow, stretching long and low like twilight. Wind stirred no leaves, carried no scent, no sound—only the weight of what remained unspoken. And in the center of it all stood Falon’din. She moved like a story remembered in muscle and bone, barefoot, gliding across tangled roots and soft clover. Not a single blossom stirred beneath her. Birds whispered into wakefulness as she passed. Wings beat like uncertain thoughts. Even time hesitated.

I COULD. NOT. WAIT. Chapter 49 is live and it’s the calm before everything explodes. I’m finally getting to the part where Rook's Rental Contract with Feelings™ gets fully activated and it’s got angst, tenderness, and enough emotional turbulence to ground a griffon.

Huge shoutout to Evie, who belongs to the amazing @starfleetteddybear — go read their stuff, they will destroy you in the best way possible.