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  1. Rec 22

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    TO: [email protected]
    FROM: [email protected]
    SUBJECT: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE:...

    Oh, and Dr. Veritas Ratio will be accompanying us on this research trip. I believe that brings the total headcount of the Avgin Historical Survey team to fourteen.

    Will that still work for you?

     

    Aventurine stares at the screen for a long minute, his already conflicted thoughts further muddied by thoughts of shin-deep black water and a letter clutched in his fist.

     

    Sure thing. I'll meet you at the shuttleport next week.

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    10 May 2026

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    Aventurine bet his life to win the biggest prize in Penacony.

    He wasn't supposed to disappear. That wasn't the plan.

    Months later, Aventurine was finally declared dead.

     

    So who is that blond stranger with too-familiar eyes on this planet in the middle of nowhere?

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    05 May 2026

  3. Rec 71

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    A peacock, Veritas read once, will present its train to attract a mate or to fend off an attacker. But Aventurine, Veritas deducts, has another user for it: as a mask of sorts, one so outrageously extravagant that with it he commands the attention of everyone in any room.

    Love him or hate him, you can’t look away. One shouldn't judge a bird based solely on its feathers, but this one seems to be counting on it.

    But as easily as Aventurine spreads his tail, his wings remain hidden. Even years into their professional relationship, Veritas has never seen him fly.
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    Written for the whumptober prompt "hidden injury."

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    11 Apr 2026

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    Lips press into the curve of his neck as hard muscle holds him. Gallagher surrounds him so completely, and Sunday wants…. Wants…
    Gallagher.
    Gallagher is still here. He's in Sunday's bed, wrapped around him like a blanket, and kissing his bare skin in the morning light.

    soft morning galladay for the soul

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    29 Mar 2026

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    “Why’d you call me a gambler?”

    Ratio’s head tilts again. His face doesn’t move much. But Aventurine swears he sees the shadow of something like amusement in his features—wry and private, like he’s smiling at a joke no one else heard.

    “I can hear it,” Ratio says.

    “Hear what?”

    “Every time you shift your weight,” Ratio responds, voice low, “there’s a coin in your coat or pants pocket. It strikes against the lining three times—once when you move, twice when you stop. It’s weighted. Slightly larger than standard-issue credits. Smooth edge. It doesn’t roll.”

    Aventurine stares.

    Ratio lifts his chin. “It is not a commemorative token. It is not a medallion. It’s the kind used in high-stakes tables. Heavy enough to flip with flair, thick enough to stack without slippage. You gamble. Or you want people to think you do.”

    A beat.

    Aventurine’s mouth goes a little slack. His tongue clicks against the roof of it, dry. “You heard that?”

    “I hear everything,”

    Aventurine laughs, but it’s shaky, breathless. “You're unnerving, you know that?”

    “I get that frequently.”

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