Fanfic: In the time allotted to you

Title: In the time allotted to you
Fandom: Xenoblade Chronicles 3
Tags: Vignette, Canon compliant (on a technicality), No Plot, Fantasy workaholicism, Implied/Referenced Character Death, Implied/Referenced Suicidal Ideation
Warnings: Major Character Death
Summary: Isurd struggles with moderation.
Length: 3503 words

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*slams back coffee* y'know sometimes you're writing a thing. And that thing keeps spawning other things. And you can't get into those things in the other thing. So you gotta make them their own thing.

This took me like a week to write and it's still the fastest a fic has come together for me in a looooooong while. I am truly the embodiment of that one Douglas Addams quote about saying something very funny two weeks later.