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    The table opened, their plates half finished, to reveal him.
    Tubes stuck out of his stomach and nose, fused against his body by the dead skin nested there. His nails were disturbingly long, but they splintered at the slightest pressure as Darrow clawed at Cassius’s cloak wrapped around him.
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    What if Cassius insisted on staying by Darrow's side after he was released from the box?

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    18 Oct 2025

  2. Public Bookmark 11

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    "What people are calling it now, the Rat War, there are no words to describe what we faced. And I do not want to find the words to describe how I felt. Trapped underground in the dark, squeezing into tunnels that aren’t meant for men my size. Knowing at any moment the walls could be caved in on us and we’d be trapped, or worse we’d be trapped with Fear himself.  And the voice that found me in Attica- that found me in that bloodydam box returned, taunting me at every corner, whispering to me when I tried to find sleep, seeping doubt into every one of my decisions."

     

    Four months after returning from the Rat Wars, Darrow and Sevro learn to deal with their traumas of war and Darrow's lingering fears and anxieties from The Box.

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    13 Oct 2025

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    “The President gave the order. He gets a pardon.”

    “An experimental pardon,” Val corrected. “And the President needs to look just as good as the rest of us. He’ll lean into that war hero image until the first disaster and poof! Tune changed. But guess who will get all of that blame?”

    “We have very advanced technology to ensure that won’t happen,” Ross said.

    “Thaddeus, Thaddeus,” she tutted. “That soldier has withstood every single torture method known to man. Chemicals, deprivation, solitary confinement. Literal brain injury! And he was barely kept in check. What do you think’s going to happen when he’s let loose? We can take bets on the number of casualties.”

    Maybe she’d said that last part a little too gleefully. In any case, Ross narrowed his eyes. “Do you have a suggestion?”

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    Bucky's pardon requires that he wear an artificially intelligent shock collar as a term of his release. Bucky accepts, knowing it's his only chance to get out and do some good in the world.

    Unfortunately, there are plenty of people ready to severely misuse that power.

    A retelling of TFATWS.

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    21 Jan 2025

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    “She’s my mate.”

    The world went silent.

    Somewhere far away, a shrill ringing started up—the deafening pealing of a thousand bells drawing closer and closer, until my head rang.

    Mate.

    I was going to be sick. “What?”

    The golden-haired female holding Rhys drew in a ragged breath, her eyes going wide, and Rhys swallowed thickly before repeating, "She's my mate, Mor."
     



    Driven by instinct in the split-second after the mating bond snaps, Rhys abducts Feyre from the balcony during their goodbyes.

    And now that Feyre has seen Velaris and witnessed Rhysand break down in another female’s arms, spouting nonsense about mating bonds, she is forbidden to leave the Night Court. Forbidden, that is, until Rhysand’s Inner Circle agrees that she poses no threat to the security and secrecy of the City of Starlight.

    She may be Prythian’s newly anointed Cursebreaker and their High Lord’s mate, but as Tamlin’s lover, Feyre has a lot to prove in order to convince them to let her go.

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    12 Oct 2023

  5. Public Bookmark 40

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    He forces himself to take a deep breath, even as the shadows in the corner of the room bend and flit. This thing, this cauldron-blessed mistake has remained dormant for almost five hundred years, through wars, Hybern and Koschei. Even through Briallyn, there hadn’t been even an ember. At least, not one that demanded acknowledgement. He has long suspected the reason why he can never move through Autumn with stealth, a fact that he knows Rhysand resents, especially with Beron’s ongoing machinations. But he could never admit to Rhysand, admit to his family the darkness that lurked at the bottom of his soul, like a tinder waiting for a spark.
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    When Eris is almost murdered by the High Lord of Autumn for treason, the Inner Circle come to his aid and offer him refuge in Night. This does not bode well for Azriel and the mating bond he's been trying to ignore for the past five hundred years.

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    28 Sep 2023