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    Morag Locke || nonbinary woman, she/her pronouns || Dockworker || Nat Romance
    AU Divergence: dockworker, not a detective
    featuring other original characters:
    Ada Grey || nonhuman concept of gender (aligns with nonbinary) , she/her pronouns || Agency IT Specialist || Mason Romance
    Salt Wax || transfem nonbinary, she/they pronouns || City Detective || Ava Romance

    Nikolai Alcide || cis man, he/him pronouns || City Detective

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    Ysabet Mirour-moor || cis woman(??), she/her pronouns || Detective || Nate Romance
    AU Divergence: ...

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    The picturesque village of Buell, Maine is one of the last in the United States to continue the tradition of the “harvest” or “prosperity” lottery. Its residents insist the lottery makes them stronger, even as condemnation from outsiders grows.

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    05 Jan 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 59

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    Zood is truly a beautiful place. Torse is endlessly glad to have been given the opportunity to explore it, to see its skies and its lands, its flora and fauna. Today, bereft of any pressing action to take while the crew of the Zephyr resupply and refuel, he wanders a small forest of blue trees and red flowers, the grass soft underneath his feet. He can sense softness, now. The crew of the Zephyr have given him that - Marya, specifically, but he would not have known to ask her had Maxwell not gifted him a plush scarf, found at a Bazaar in some city. He had not told Maxwell about the extra wires she had soldered into him, but he keeps the scarf tucked under his breastplate, a token from a fair maiden.

    Maxwell is not his fair maiden. It had simply been a gift. It would behoove him to remember that.

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    26 Nov 2025

  3. Public Bookmark 13

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    Torse, roused from his hibernation without a heart, had forgotten, memories of his homeland rust-stained and faded as they were, what it was like for others to aid in maintenance, though humans were so unlike his mechanical people.

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    26 Nov 2025

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    You are falling. You do not expect to make it out of this - you do not deserve to make it out of this, you've ruined everything, you wretch, you ruin, you warmonger.

    But there is something you must say, as you see Maxwell Gotch barrel towards you, an avenging angel, wingsuit spread, breaching the gap between worlds to chase you. You do not deserve his care. You do not deserve him. You are going to fall to your death, and you cannot make yourself into someone who is good enough for him, not with this heart, so easily overtaken. 

    “I always considered you a friend, Maxwell,” you say. You have to say it, say something, use your last words to try and convey an iota of how deep your affections for him lie. He may have been your first real friend, the closest thing to your gold-metal heart. You are going to die, here, in the space between worlds, and he will at least have known that you cared. 

    Talons come around you. Straka. Everything goes black, and the last of the Aganti Zernai is gone.

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    26 Nov 2025

  5. Public Bookmark 19

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    Maxwell and Torse experience the inherent intimacy of bathing another person.

     

    (Tags, Summary, and chapter count updated as of 11/28/2025 to reflect the fic's new status as complete. Nothing new has been added)

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    26 Nov 2025