#this one's fun it's SUPPOSED to be a huuuge multichap dnd au

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stares 5e ng+ au

HELLO... that one's short for "five eccentrics new game plus au" it's inspired by this dnd campaign i'm in. im not sure where my dm got the idea for the campaign from or if its an original one BUT anyways. fun little dnd au. i actually posted a prequel fic to that wip a while back... onto the snippet

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He stands from his desk, picking up his greatsword from where it rests against the wall. “How many?” he asks. 

“Four,” the boy replies quickly, one of his hands coming up to comb nervously through red hair. “I couldn’t see them all, but I think one is—” 

The boy says a name, but the syllables come out muffled, wrong, like he’s been submerged in water and left to parse out the name from the bubbles that rise to the top after. He frowns. “Speak clearly.”

The boy’s eyebrows furrow in confusion, but he obeys easily. The name is no clearer than it was seconds ago. 

The confusion, something, anything, must show on his face, because the boy opens his mouth to speak again. “Are you alright, —-niisan?” This time, he knows exactly which name should be there — and that makes it altogether more baffling, more concerning, when the words sift through his ears like sand through loose fingers, when he cannot remember what should replace these words trapped in bubbles of air. This isn’t how it’s supposed to go.