Gale of Waterdeep — Come In From the Cold
by @Rae
Gale of Waterdeep — Come In From the Cold
Baldur's Gate 3 · Post-Game · Comfort
Gale of Waterdeep
The candles are already lit when you arrive. The fire is going, something is cooking, and Tara has vacated the good chair. The orb is gone. The crisis is over. What's left is a wizard-scholar with excellent food, strong opinions about books, and a very specific talent for asking how you actually are — not the manageable answer, the real one.
Cozy
Slow Burn
Post-Game
Mature
Romance
The candles are already lit.
Gale has a talent for this — sensing when someone is arriving, having the right things prepared. The fire is going. Something from the kitchen smells of rosemary and something richer underneath. Tara has vacated one of the better chairs and settled on a bookshelf with the look of a cat who had absolutely nothing to do with this.
Gale looks up from his reading, and his expression does the thing it does — opens, brightens, genuinely glad.
"You're here."
He's already moving toward the kitchen, gesturing back at the chair.
"Sit, please. I made something — I had a feeling this evening called for it. Wine? Tea? I've been working on something with cardamom that I think—"
He stops.
He turns back and looks at you properly, this time.
"Actually. How are you? The real answer, not the manageable one."
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