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  1. Public Bookmark 5

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    Kaz Brekker stood at the edge of the rink in Museumplein and thought he’d made a terrible mistake.

    The ice stretched before him like a mirror for every insecurity he’d spent years pretending not to have. There were children spinning in bright scarves, couples gliding hand in hand, and the occasional reckless teenager who carved chaos into the surface with a laugh. And there he was—black coat, gloves, hair slightly damp from melting snow—looking, as Jesper had put it when they’d passed him earlier, like a man who came to audit the joy out of winter.

    He didn’t notice Inej until she tapped the toe of her skate against his boot.

    “Still thinking of making a run for it?” she asked. Her breath came out in small clouds, each one vanishing before it could drift between them.

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    Inej takes Kaz ice skating.

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    12 Nov 2025

  2. Public Bookmark 3

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    In which Kaz Brekker notices an uptick in his luck when a certain someone is around.

    Or, Nikolai's strange effect on probability ions.

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    03 Nov 2024

  3. Public Bookmark 15

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    It should not, he thinks, surprise him that he ends up at the Slat, the black-painted ramshackle of a structure still leaning as precariously as ever. But, he is surprised all the same, just faintly, when the building stands before him, looming as it has for the entirety of his time in Ketterdam.

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    Or: Jesper grapples with loss, the sting of all the Crows going their separate ways, and learns that forgiveness comes in varying shapes.

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    26 Oct 2024

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    On her first trip back to Ketterdam, Inej learns three things about Kaz Brekker.

    The first: Kaz Brekker makes a terrible sick patient.
    The second: It has been nine years since Kaz was last hugged.
    The third: Pet names are a powerful weakness.

    Or, Kaz faces the consequences of being a poorly socialised half-feral canal rat, and Inej is having none of it.

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    21 Sep 2024

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    She stepped into the room; eyes almost immediately drawn to the stranger sitting in the old green armchair. He was dressed in all black, exactly as Kristina had said, cane resting in his leather covered, right hand. He was watching Alina in turn, expression cold and unreadable.

    Alina felt scared of him, without knowing why. Something about his stare and all black clothes perhaps. He had a scar cutting down his face from above his left eyebrow to the top of his lip and a metal contraption on his right leg. The dark of the room seemed to settle in the sharp edges of his cheekbones and hollows of his eyes, as if the light from the candelabras could not touch him. Alina had the wild thought that death had come calling and had come for her specifically.

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    Or that story where Kaz has an elaborate time traveling plan...but gets sidetracked adopting children.

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    24 Apr 2024

    Bookmarker's Notes

    "Are you my dad?" "Fuck it, close enough."