#this chapter has everything: accidental domesticity. spanking. fancy restaurant. aftercare

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Chapter Six

In which we finally arrive in Waterdeep, and the boys go out for a totally platonic dinner

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“So we’re staying in the South Ward?”

“Southern, not South,” Rizeth corrected. “They’re rather particular about that.”

It was afternoon already, later in the day and the season than Rizeth had wanted to arrive. He’d hoped to have been settled in Waterdeep well before the new year, but the weather had continued to conspire against them. A dray rattled past, the long, windowed carriage packed full of passengers avoiding the implications of the dark, heavy clouds that loomed overhead. If it didn’t snow tonight, he’d be surprised.

“I’ll remember,” Ashenivir said. He turned the map in his hands, struggling with its awkward size as he tried to orient himself. “Oh. There’s a shrine here.”

His tone was light, too carefully so.

“You have time to visit today, if you’d like,” Rizeth said, equally lightly.

Ashenivir flipped the map around again. “No, I…I don’t want to.”

Rizeth didn’t press him. He still hadn’t gotten to the bottom of Ashenivir’s strange behaviour in Neverwinter Wood, but it wasn’t his place to pry. Unless and until it reared its head in a scene, he would wait for Ashenivir to come to him.

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