Tagged by @alyssalenko – thanks for the tag, I really love this one!!

Rules: List the first lines of your last 10 published stories. Look to see if there are any patterns that you notice yourself, and see if anyone else notices any! Tag up to 10 friends!

1. Soft and gentle lips drift across Solas’s cheekbone, and he smiles.
Solas x Elia Lavellan // What Pride Will Not Forget

2. A dull cramping pain reaches through Blackwall’s fingers.
Blackwall x Arya Lavellan // Fix You

3. Athera poked her head cautiously into Skyhold’s kitchen. “Hello?” she called softly.
Abelas x Athera Lavellan // Ma’av’in 

4. Her fingers clench between his own, her fingertips pressing into his knuckles.
Blackwall x Arya Lavellan // Swords & Shields: Smutty Prompt Fills

5. Everything shifted imperceptibly from the moment he first saw her.
Aloy x Nil // Her Breath, His Land

6. He brushes his knuckles along her cheek, and she jerks her face away.
Aloy x Nil // The Voice Of Our Teeth: Smutty Prompt Fills

7. “You’re quite fond of my hair, aren’t you?”
Abelas x Athera Lavellan // Lath’sal’in

8. Quiet now. Quiet, quiet…
Aloy x Ikrie // Put Your Spear Beside Mine

9. “I had hoped you would come,” a familiar voice said.
Abelas x Athera Lavellan // The One Who Will Live On

10. Solas slips his bookmark in place and yawns.
Solas x Elia Lavellan // Stop The World And Melt With You

Tagging it forward to @buttsonthebeach @thevikingwoman @ma-sulevin @bronzeagelove @galadrieljones @ocean-in-my-rebel-soul @sun-and-shadow-aloy @oops-gingermoment @larissafae, and anyone else who wants to join in. 

If you don’t have 10 published fics, then let’s see the first lines of the last 10 chapters or the last 10 paragraphs – or as many first-lines as you have! ❤️