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  1. Public Bookmark 18

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    “You,” she corrects. “What if I want to leave you?”

    “Oh.” His eyes that have been wandering around the town square where they’re sitting – it’s not even a square, she doesn’t know why they call it that – slide around to fix on her as his face settles into a forced evenness as he weighs this new and unforeseen complication. Why would you do that? she imagines him asking or, where would you possibly go? or stop wasting time. “Then you leave, I guess.”

    “You won’t stop me?”

    “I’d hope you’d be smart about it.”

    “You won’t hunt me down and bring me back?”

    Back where? she imagines him retorting, and feels foolish for even asking. “What would be the use of that?” he grunts instead.

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    28 Jul 2025

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    After his stunning defeat at the hands of the Guardians and their new member, Pitch does whatever little he can to get his power back up. Children's hospitals, he finds, have within them such a terrific source of fear.

    He doesn't expect to see a Shepherd there, nor to have such an... enlightening conversation with him.

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    23 Jul 2025

  3. Public Bookmark 21

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    “A word of advice, Cassian Andor of Ferrix, if you want to make it out of here in one piece -”

    “Is anyone making it out of here in one piece?” he demanded. You included, he didn’t add.

    “You have a home world left to make it out to,” he leaned in and told him quietly. Warningly. “Too many of these boys do not.” Cassian swallowed, and thought back again to the rumors, the hushed whispers, the creeping shadow that seemed to be settling over the galaxy until it finally reached Ferrix, boots and blasters and bodies on the ground. “You can’t help them. And you don’t want the attention, from anyone. You understand?”

    “Path of least resistance?”

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    21 Jul 2025

  4. Public Bookmark 33

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    The starlines stretched into the hypnotic swirl of hyperspace and Luthen sighed as he spun the chair. Met those wide, searching eyes for a moment, rose, and jerked his head towards the aft end of the ship. “Come.”

    Andor rose and followed. Softly, at Luthen’s back, he spoke the first words since offering up his death or his life. “I kept my end of the deal.”

    Just as quietly back, damningly, Luthen replied, “I know you did.”

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    21 Jul 2025

  5. Public Bookmark 78

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    “Climb,” Kino urged others to escape a prison he never would.

    “Climb!” Nemik screamed past multicolored explosions and his own crushed spine.

    “Climb!” K-2SO’s voice juddered out over the intercom, punched from mechanical lungs by blaster fire.

    And what else could Cassian do but be borne up by the bodies of those that had gone before him?

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    19 Jul 2025