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I Lean In and Kiss Him [Right Here] by Chanse (SpottedEnchants)
Fandoms: Critical Role: Exandria (Web Series)
16 Aug 2021
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Essek’s smile is so full of life and light and potential, his hand so close to Caleb’s.
How is Caleb to resist?
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AKA five times Caleb kisses Essek and one time Essek kisses him back.
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- Part 16 of Touching Sentiments
- Part 35 of Touching Sentiments (Chronological)
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03 Jan 2026
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And if We're Going Down in Flames (Take a Bow) by stardustedknuckles
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
07 Oct 2020
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Caleb thought he could wait everyone out and retreat to his room after dinner. He vastly underestimated how seriously one Beauregard Lionett took her job as family.
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31 Dec 2025
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Essek is soft. His hands have but two calluses, right where he grips a quill. His skin is smooth and supple, well taken care of and kept away from the elements and the sunlight. Even his feet are soft, largely unused in public and usually at rest when in privacy.
Caleb is rough around the edges, used to battles and scars and pain. His hair is a bit coarser, his hands have heavy calluses all over, and there are bumps and scars all over the freckled skin from the harsh but short life he has led. He’s a beautiful painting, and Essek is a blank canvas. There’s potential there, probably, but without skill there’s doubt he’ll come close to such a masterpiece.
Essek is soft and he cannot deny this.
When he and Caleb were taken from his tower and thrown in a dungeon, halfway to unconscious, he started pulling things from his pockets, frantically. He knew these dungeons, could see the protective wards against divination, teleportation, and other means of contacting help or escaping. He knew they had little chance to survive, and worst of all he knew this was his fault.
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28 Dec 2025
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Essek clung to her; his fingers gripped the front of her coat. He looked small in a way he never had before, frightened in a way that Caleb hadn’t fully processed he could be. It wasn’t Essek’s nervousness, the anxiety of a brilliant man who could see danger all around him, who could see the falling dominoes and the way the web he had woven had entangled him. It was the fear of a small child, or indeed, a stray cat—the fear of a creature trapped in a terrifying world it did not understand.
Essek, brilliant Essek, Essek who believed he could find the answers to everything, unable to understand a thing—the thought of it stabbed at Caleb’s heart.
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In a world where Trent makes it back to Eiselcross before the Nein do, Essek spends a night under the effects of the Feeblemind spell. Caleb undertakes a duty of care, and the Nein learn how Essek feels about them beneath everything.
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13 Dec 2025
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Caleb and Essek's research trip to Aeor is going swimmingly - until it's not. Stuck in a region of the city where magic doesn't seem to work at all and surrounded by numerous dangers, things are liable to get worse before they get better...
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11 Dec 2025