bakerstreet | Returned

Returned

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The premise of the meme is simple. Two characters, lovers, have been separated for a time. How long is up to you, as is the reason for the separation. Was it unwilling - an imprisonment, a required journey - or because of a choice one of the characters made? The reason may, of course, color the reunion, and somebody may be pretty miffed, with good reason. Still, the theme is the same: intimacy after being apart.
This meme is mostly geared towards being a smut meme, but nobody will judge you for just doing so heavy fluff.
Reply with your character and preferences.
Reply to others. Assumed CR is probably key here.

[ooc: Either / or. Up for discussion.]

[TRC spoilers ok! Voicetesting, so canonmates only!]

Alistair slipped inside the royal suite as silently as possible given the late hour. It would have been wiser to have spent the night at the roadside inn they'd passed shortly after sundown as his guards had suggested but he'd been gone long enough. Besides, surrounded by a troop of royal guards he wasn't exactly subtle and as much as he missed being able to spend time mixing with the people of Ferelden it wasn't the same when 'mixing' meant 'being stared at and ceaselessly catered to'. So they'd pressed on and finally arrived back at the palace long after everyone but the night staff had retired.

Tomorrow he could catch up on everything he'd missed in the months he'd been gone and share the outcome of his trip. And be hounded by unhappy nobles and petitioners doubtless. But tonight he was going to collapse into his own bed - hopefully without waking his lady - and sleep. Like a log.

That was the plan anyway. But as he set to work stripping out of his dusty travel clothes and his boot caught on the edge of the rug and sent him stumbling into a chest with a thud he had a feeling that might not work out so well.