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    “And you are–,” Armand pauses, as though searching for words. Finally settles on… “Safe.”

    The implications in that one word. Daniel’s near certain the kid doesn’t mean safe as in a safe bet, a sure thing. He means that he feels safe. And the fact that the kid is finding safety here of all places– in an old journalist’s arms, in his own professor’s bed, without any defined relationship. Is he speaking about emotional safety? Or is he speaking about physical safety?

    Daniel’s afraid it’s the latter.

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    29 Nov 2024

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    Armand shifts his weight onto one leg and leans into Daniel’s chest, looks over his own shoulder at the camera. Lestat's pupils dilate while he takes the photo.

    “Was I in frame?” Daniel asks him.

    “He's climbing you,” Lestat says. “Yes, you were in frame.”

    They look okay, in the glimpse Lestat gives him before he sends it. Daniel is presentable from his stupid schmoozy networking drinks, and Armand looks how Armand always looks. Composition is lacking, obviously, Lestat is not the resident hobbyist photographer, but Louis is forgiving about that kind of thing.

    “The little dots,” Lestat announces. “He says - he says he'd like an after photo as well, if it's not too much trouble.”

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    In mathematics, a set is a well-defined collection of objects. These objects are called the elements of the set. Set B is a subset of set A if all elements of B are also elements of A; A is then a superset of B.

    A = {armand, daniel, lestat, louis}
    B = {daniel, lestat} • {armand, louis} • {armand, lestat} • {daniel, louis} • {armand, daniel} • {lestat, louis} • {armand, daniel, lestat}

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    30 Oct 2024

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    He’s a boy hiding in a closet, temporarily safe from the men who will inevitably tie his ankles to the bedframe until they pull into harbor somewhere at the bottom of Africa. He’s a monster who killed a paralegal in cold blood eight hours ago. He’s five hundred years old. He’s fourteen, maybe— they guess his age instead of asking at the auction. It doesn’t take long for Arun to forget all the things he used to know about himself, to be reliant upon the slavers’ incomplete records for his last name, his birthday, the name of his village.

    They don’t pass this information on to the brothel owner. The next time he loses it, he can’t get it back.

    [Armand has a nightmare. It sticks around when he wakes up. Louis talks him down.]

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    Mystery Work

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    This is part of an ongoing challenge and will be revealed soon!

    01 Oct 2024

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    He burns my skin
    Never mind about the shape I'm in
    I'll keep you safe tonight


    Mortals aren't meant to look upon the visage of angels. Especially ones that shouldn't exist.

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    04 Apr 2024