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James Cleven dies on an unassuming Saturday in late February. On a freezing Friday in March, Gale Cleven comes home.
He plans to stay for a week, get rid of the ranch his father left him, and get back to his life.
John Egan throws a wrench in things.
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knell - (verb) From the Old Norse knylla, to give forth a mournful, ominous, or warning sound.
John didn’t admit to himself that Gale was more than just his best friend until he was drunk off his ass sitting in the cockpit the morning after Gale went down over Germany.
But he knew the whole damn time.
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- Part 1 of i sing to him that rests below
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The old Sander Driesen could not imagine war. He could not imagine death. He could not imagine this fight lasting longer than a few months, even as the Germans overwhelmed them, even as he loaded a gun with inexperienced, fumbling hands, even as he shot it over and over again, even as he watched men die around him and his city go up in flames. He could not imagine what would come as he walked through rain and mud with the remains of his division west to the IJzer. He could not imagine what would come even after that first true battle, sunk down in trenches for two weeks straight, peppered by machine gun fire and shrapnel, awake for days at a time and walking over, sitting on, tripping over, shitting on corpses–even then. Even then. The mind cannot wrap itself around such horrors. Sometimes, instead, it simply breaks apart.
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How To Steal the Rosetta Stone In Seven Easy Steps by Prevalent_Masters
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
16 Nov 2022
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Lykon stares at all of them, silent for a long moment. “So you’re just...the Robin Hoods of the museum world, or what? What about the Bronze?”
Joe laughs, the tense lines of his face relaxing somewhat. “That’s what Nicky calls us. And the Bronze, well...that was a bit of a test run for our next job. To see how difficult it would be to retrieve something a little less famous.”
“A little less famous than what?” Lykon asks, already dreading the answer.
Joe smiles a little bashfully. “Well. Less famous than the Rosetta Stone.”
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- Part 3 of Yet Not Alone
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and on the seventh day he rested by Prevalent_Masters
Fandoms: Dreamer Trilogy - Maggie Stiefvater, Raven Cycle - Maggie Stiefvater
23 Oct 2022
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On the seventh day, the Lynch brothers discovered they were friends once more.
Or, the week following the (near) apocalypse.
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i sing to him that rests below by Prevalent_Masters
Fandom: Masters of the Air (TV 2024)
04 Jun 2025
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Yet Not Alone by Prevalent_Masters
Fandom: The Old Guard (Comics), The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
16 Nov 2022
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Joe's job involves curating the Département des Antiquités Orientales at the Louvre and, occasionally, nicking said antiquities to return them where they belong.
Nico's job involves killing Joe.
Somehow, they fall in love. It's as complicated as you might imagine.
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Bathing through the ages by Prevalent_Masters
Fandom: The Old Guard (Comics), The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
23 Feb 2021
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It’s been three years since the wedding, and he’s run out of excuses not to visit. They’re expecting him today. Marge said as much in her last letter, the lovely slant of her cursive telling him she’d have supper waiting for him. The faintest whiff of her perfume clung to the paper, something soft and floral.
Five o’clock on the dot. Italian, she promised. Your favorite.
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13 Jul 2025
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The cold, dry Wyoming dirt fills Gale's lungs and passes into his blood, melts into the plasma there, begins making up his body again, it seeps into his white bones and every movement is part of that desert. England had not quite taken the cowboy out of him before he was back again, married and squirming in his bed from the nightmares. He is more than Casper, he wants more than what it gives; John can give him more, but he is half the man he wishes he was, and squirms all the more at night for he thinks little of that kind of adventure, and less still of himself.
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13 Jul 2025
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“We’ve got to stop meeting like this.”
He’s in John’s home. He’s here to do a job. He’s in John’s home.
“With you trying to fuck me?”
“Sweaty.” John smiles slow and hungry
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- Part 3 of Little Beasts
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04 Jun 2025
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"They had a strained conversation after mail call, all those months ago, walking slowly across the barren, muddy ground, and John wouldn’t look at him when he told him he was afraid that people would only ever know the person he was becoming.
Gale could see it hanging over him, then: the spectre of the person John thought so diminished and so unworthy of being known. The person he was so afraid of becoming. And Gale thought, back then ‘what kind of person would not want to know every aspect of him? What kind of person would not love every version of this man?’"
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Or: Gale, through it all.
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28 May 2025
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On a visit to Kaitain, young Paul makes a friend, and Duke Leto ponders the fallacy of hereditary sin.
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- Part 1 of St. Augustine
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09 May 2025