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    Henry should have known better when he took Hans fishing and expected it to be a peaceful afternoon.

    Written for KCD Fluff Week 2025 'Mischief'.

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    07 Sep 2025

  2. Public Bookmark 5

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    “Hey, listen to what Brabant taught me…” Henry said casually. What a fun and silly joke, right?

    Hans’ politely expectant expression and patient eyes almost made him forget what the fuck the sentence was supposed to be.

    “La tua bellezza mi abbaglia.” It sounded alright – could have been worse at least. His hand didn’t shake if he put it on his hip.


    Henry flirts with Hans in Italian, Hans reveals that he is getting married, and everything implodes.

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    06 Sep 2025

  3. Public Bookmark 3

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    He sat up sharply and felt his chest tighten painfully. He scrunched his face tight, as if trying to forbid his eyes from welling with tears of fear and exhaustion. Hans used to...handle all this. Hans would bolt the doors, Hans would guide him back to bed, Hans would follow him if he did manage to get out. He'd even noticed that it tended to happen around the same time every night and would push him awake right beforehand—that tended to stop it in its tracks. Henry always roomed with Hans; the young lord insisted upon it, wryly reminding their travelling companions that he was his personal bodyguard and so of course he ought to stay close.

    Now he was alone, and he had no idea what to do.

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    06 Sep 2025

  4. Public Bookmark 9

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    "What's important now is that if you have to lose, lose to someone good."

    "Maybe I just won't lose," he said with a smile, and Hans snorted.

    "Typical arrogant peasant. If you win the rest of your bouts today, I'll pay for a massage tonight." What better reward than some pretty wench sitting on his arse, pushing on his poor sore back? As fast as he put on muscle he layered on fat, which would roll nicely under her hands.

    "Can't celebrate too hard," he warned. "Still two days ahead of me, if I'm good."

    "You are," Hans said, confident and staring at his sun-drenched hair. It was brown but the ends were paling in the sun, the tips of his curls a soft gold. Gilded. "You'll win."

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    06 Sep 2025

  5. Public Bookmark 16

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    "N-Not," she added hastily, shaking herself out of Skalitz in time to realise that she probably sounded deranged to this woman who'd known nothing but secondhand stories of violence her whole life, "Not that I intend to become some wild assassin!"

    "Of course not," Lady Jitka said firmly. "And I wouldn't ask that of you...but it does bring me comfort, to know that I do not ask something impossible of you."

    That, of all things, was what compelled Tess to agree in the end. Jitka hadn't shaken old memories out of the thicket just to have something to talk about; rather, she'd hoped that like Henry, Theresa could be trusted with terror, with pain and rage and fear, and rise to it. To conquer it. No other woman could offer what Theresa could, and so she packed what few belongings she had—even now, still compelled to live lightly enough to flee and not miss anything—and followed Lady Jitka to Pirkstein.

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    06 Sep 2025