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    The blade is a familiar, steady threat, gleaming at her daughter’s throat.

    “Ah, you’re home.” The voice is a shock of history, plucking at something inside her that longs to harmonise, but Celine can’t look away from the point of that weapon, the whitened pressure of the skin underneath it, the unhidden pattern bared to view.

    “Cel—” the blade bites deeper as Rumi’s voice starts, as Celine takes a step forward in helpless response.

    “Rumi,” Celine says, her voice wavering. “It’s okay. She won’t hurt you.” Her eyes flick up, once, to the cold, twisted hatred in a face she once loved, to the glittering determination there, and there’s an icy feeling of certainty that she just lied to her daughter, something she’d long since promised to avoid. “Ha-Eun.”

    Celine has always tried not to lie to Rumi, but even after the Idol Awards, there remain some things left unsaid. The Third Sunlight Sister’s return forces them into the light.

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    05 May 2026

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    Rumi’s even prettier in person.

    It’s the most dangerous kind of pretty, the kind Mira immediately wants to ruin. Her hair is pulled back the same as in the photo, showing off the entirety of her long-sleeved black dress. It’s anything but modest, though; devastatingly short, with cutouts along the sides and nothing left to the imagination. Mira can take in every detail of Rumi’s body through the fitted fabric: the definition of her arm muscles, every jaw-dropping curve. Below it all, her thighs are smooth and firm, and Mira can only imagine what they’d feel like under her palms.

    Which she does, in excruciating detail.

    But she needs to focus.

    Rumi is hot, but she is off limits. For now, at least. Mira’s one and only job is to be respectful while distracting Rumi from her breakup wallowing.

    Easy.

    Or: Mira invites Zoey's friend out line dancing to help her get over a breakup.

    Or, because my life wasn't enough of a joke: the despacito au

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    04 May 2026

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    It doesn’t know exactly when it started to understand.

    At some point, when it’s maybe fifteen, it wonders—because it’s not as if it doesn’t hear people calling it “she” pretty much every day. Hadn’t it heard that as a kid as well? Even when it didn’t really interact with anyone, when it was too young to be around people, when there wasn’t really anyone talking about it. So it’s not like anyone has ever actually called it “it,” even though that’s what’s accurate since it isn’t a she. It can’t be—because it isn’t human. It’s a demon. It’s a monster.

     

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    Rumi and her relationship with gender, humanity, and monstrosity.

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    27 Apr 2026

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    Rumi touched her fingers to her ribs. She could feel the heat radiating from her skin, even through her clothes. A distant, miserable part of her said, this is going to hurt.

    She pushed her fingers down.

    The rib shifted.

    The thing about telling one very big lie is that it requires a foundation of hundreds of smaller lies to hold it up, lies such as "I'm fine," and "nothing's broken," and "it doesn't hurt."

    Rumi finds this out the hard way.

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    26 Apr 2026

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    Zoey thinks, lying back against the paper covering of the cold examination table, while trying to ignore the sensation of inorganic equipment being lodged in places they had no god-given right to be, that this is, inarguably, the least sexy way to get knocked up.

    Zoey isn’t really sure how she ended up here, in all honesty.

    Well, she is. She can recount the steps chronologically. How Mira and Rumi had looked so god-damned defeated. How her big, stupid mouth had opened and volunteered, initially, and then had said yes to all of their concerned interrogations as to whether or not she was sure, like, really sure, one hundred per cent sure?

    And now she’s said yes so many times and so adamantly that it isn’t as though she can suddenly back track and say, surprise! I am actually no longer willing to carry the baby you have been so desperately trying for because I think it would be a really super-duper bad idea! Sorry for getting your hopes up!

     

    Zoey agrees to be a surrogate for a married Rumira. Things get messy because she's already in love with them, has known this for years, but she might be falling in love with the baby, too

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    17 Apr 2026