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    Time and time again, Henry is the one who has stolen Hans’ attention.

    Handsome Henry with his crooked smirk and unflappable attitude, the grief chilling him from the inside out and burning Hans with its undeniable frost. His blue eyes glide slowly over the shield attached to the soldier’s swaying body, along the painted edges of Sir Radzig’s crest, and Hans wonders what he’s thinking, how he thinks in the first place.

    “Lord have mercy on his soul,” Hanush mutters, the back of his gloved hand pressed firm to clinched lips.

     

    No, Lord have mercy on mine.

     

    (Or, a killer hunts soldiers in Skalitz colors and secrets are spilled quicker than the blood gathering in the streets.)

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    Sir Hans Capon of Pirkstein and Sir Henry Kobyla of Skalitz had been best friends as long as they could remember.

    But Hans was soon to turn twenty, which meant something quite distressing – it was time to pick a spouse.

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    11 Sep 2025

  3. Public Bookmark 41

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    Henry doesn’t belong here even more now than when he stood here the first time, a blacksmith boy in his tattered clothes, with his sloppy bows and the words that tripped over one another on the way out of his mouth.

    Before each night he prays to see the good. The warm gentle memories that he made in the narrow crevices between the sorrow and despair. Of his mother’s kind smile, and his father's approving gaze. Of the first time he kissed a girl, all jittery nerves and excitement. Of the last time he kissed a boy, consumed with the feeling of love, and how he counted the golden specks in his blues eyes as they lay in each other’s embrace only hours before Henry’s first death.

    He shouldn’t pray for the last. He should burn for this sin. But instead he keeps living on only to die again.

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    Sleep Token - Look To Windward

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    09 Sep 2025

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    Struggling to keep his professional dreams afloat, Henry is ready to give up on becoming a top-league ice hockey player and resign to being a welder for the rest of his life. But moments before a tryout that could change everything, he receives a call from a friend that he has not seen for over a year.

    Hans has everything he could ever want: the stellar career, the nuclear family, the penthouse in the city, the more-than-comfortable lifestyle… But when his picture-perfect life comes crashing down around him, there is only one person that he can count on to help pick up the pieces.

    They say that time heals all wounds, but some leave scars. A story about friendship, family, ice hockey, politics, summers, winters, heartbreak, and love.


    Modern AU, updates weekly!

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    02 Sep 2025

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    “I’m here, Henry, you’re–” he swallows, “You’re going to be okay.”

     

    Henry lets out a terrible, wheezing croaking sound.

     

    It takes Hans too long to realise that he’s laughing.


    When he captures Henry after the fateful duel with Erik, Markvart von Aulitz gives Zizka an ultimatum: hand over the silver, or Henry starts losing fingers.

    Weeks later, when Hans rides back to Suchdol with the might of an army behind him, he finds Henry in a state far worse than Von Aulitz's threats implied.

    With Henry's recovery on the line, Hans vows to find out how things went so wrong so quickly.

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    28 Aug 2025