"Down the Whispering Well," post 8

Title: Down the Whispering Well
This post rating: general
Warnings: drug use
Word Count: 4300
Disclaimer: Ashmael, Vaysh, and the harish world all belong to Storm Constantine; I'm merely playing with great abandon in her sandbox.
Pairings: Vaysh/Ashmael (historic)

Novella summary: Being brought back from the dead doesn't mean happily ever after, especially if you're Vaysh. Life has its costs, and he pays dearly. An exploration of Vaysh's character in the years before and through Pellaz's transformation, and the burdens he endures, because he must.

Post summary: Five years have gone by; a har from southern Megalithica is reborn and is transformed by Thiede's hand as Vaysh was before. Vaysh is commanded to be his guide, confidante, caretaker— and he doesn't have to like it. Continued from post 7, here. This post has a few actual dialogue quotes from Enchantments; I couldn't really avoid it, but I'll be doing so as best I can now that I'm fully integrated into canon. The story has already been eloquently told by the Master and I don't wish to quote her canon verbatim as that's already been done! But I felt it would be really odd to skip this part entirely, so there are a few sippets of canon dialogue in here.

( Down the Whispering Well, post 8 )