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[ after his initial startling, gale embraces her fully. arm around her shoulders, hand sweeping up her spine and cheek tucked against her hair, so she can settle in the crook of his neck. ]

[ gently, ] You needn’t be so brave now.

[ although that’s an essential part of who she is, in gale’s mind. weathering loneliness and resculpt, transformations and troubles. no worse for wear, something he’s been claiming since they returned from their other lives, if not before all that. ]

We missed you terribly.

[ the subject of that we being obvious. ]

[highlyemotional]

[ she settles into the space next to him like she fits. she does, they've sat like this before when she was trying to wrangle her sense of self back into her arms. she touches her wrist and frowns. her bracelet is gone, lost probably somewhere in the rubble of the castle if giles kept it when her rooms were cleaned out.

she exhales a heavy breath at the loss of such precious objects, bracelets from both her friends, and that is what makes the tears finally fall again. the straw that broke the camel's back was losing a bracelet with her initial on it. ]

I almost didn't want to find you. I was scared you'd forget me.

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Forget the great Caroline Forbes? We couldn’t, my dear.

[ which might sound naive, particularly when gale himself has gone and returned, knowing the journey here was seemingly forgotten. gale doesn’t think it so simple. their memories remain — latent, under the skin — a fact proven by caroline’s return. ]

Whatever tethers us now won’t be so easily swept away, even by slats of rain and formidable tempests. The glamour which withheld your recollections of this place is just that — an enchantment.

[ he thinks of dom and his coven reaching beyond the barrier. they wouldn’t have been punished if they weren’t at the threshold of the impossible. gale, of all people, would know.

squeezing her shoulder, he holds her for as long as she likes. in the end, it’s just as comforting for him, when he worries dearly over those who have disappeared (and he’s certain astarion will be quietly pleased , in his way, to have caroline back).]

[highlyemotional]

[ she lets gale hold her, soaking in the comfort of the weight of his arm around her, the warmth of him. if she had her way, they would stay like this for days but gale would need to eat and both of them would need to pee so it's not really feasible. she contents herself with staying until her butt goes numb.

eventually, she sighs and finally it doesn't sound unhappy. ]

I was top of my class.

[ all that studying paid off! ]