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Avid reader, hobbyist writer, fanfic lover, video game enjoyer(different than gamer, I don't take it that seriously) on Ao3 as comment_goblin! Open for Beta Reading! (contact for fandom info)

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Call me Mat @comment-goblin.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Another sneak peek for my #CyhainoBang2025 fic entry! Coming to an Archiveofourown near you July 7! #cyhaino #cytham #haino #alhaitham #cyno #fanfic @cyhainobang.bsky.social

Cyno smiled, shaking his head in chagrin and retrieving Alhaitham's cloak from its place on the coat rack in the corner. He held it out and Alhaitham put his arms through the armholes, letting it settle over both shoulders for once.
"Would you like to walk home with me?" Alhaitham asked, putting a few things from his desk into his belt pouch, "I can't think of anything specific to talk about but I am told that friends shouldn't only see each other at work. I have been doing poorly at this."
"Well," Cyno began, following Alhaitham out of the office. "I did have another, not-work-related question."
"What is it?"
"Why are you so big? I've seen pictures, in your house, of your Grandmother and your father when he was young. Both of them seemed to be closer to my height than yours. How did you get so tall?" Cyno asked, teasingly, but in a very serious voice. Cyno said everything in a very serious voice.
Alhaitham, for the first time since Cyno had known him, laughed.
Cyno thought it might be his new favorite sound.

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Call me Mat @comment-goblin.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

This makes my first time participating in a bang! Here’s a sneak peek of the fic I wrote for the #CyhainoBang2025! @cyhainobang.bsky.social

So Alhaitham has friends now, in Nilou and Tighnari, and a famous mercenary from the desert that Kaveh had yet to meet himself, and the strange man with the strange hat that now worked as Lord Kusanali's secretary of sorts.
And then there was Cyno.
Cyno, who, as far as Kaveh knew, had never been impressed with anything; once called Alhaitham's combat skills 'commendable for a scholar.
Cyno, who, at Lambad's, now rambled in a manner of subdued excitement about an exchange of word play that 'should have been expected from the brightest of Haravatat'.
Cyno, who Alhaitham let reset his shoulder when it dislocated after an incident that was not Kaveh's fault led to him falling over a railing on the tree of wisdom.
Cyno, who Alhaitham loaned his headset to when a head injury gave the General Mahamatra an unexpected migraine.
Kaveh didn't know what to make of it.

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