Drabble Challenge 2024 - Day 10: Zesty

Fandom: Baldur's Gate 3 Characters: Dame Aylin/Isobel Thorm, Ketheric Thorm

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The tension is so thick, Isobel imagines slicing into it with the dull knife she is failing to conquer her supper with. 

"The pie filling is delightfully zesty," she blurts out, inanely. "The new spices from Cormyr, perhaps?"

Ketheric is quiet, busy scowling at Aylin, seated in a place of honour opposite him. She, oblivious, struggles to look away from Isobel; that yearning, moonlit gaze drawn to her again and again like a moth to a lantern.

Isobel sighs, takes another bite, and tries to push aside the memory of the distinctly divine flavours she got to taste last night.

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