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  1. Public Bookmark 74

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    It’s not him, Sanji reminded himself, frantically. You’re jumping at phantoms again. Flinching at shadows. It’s not him, and it’s never going to be.
    Except it was. Broader and battered and down to one working eye, but it was.
    Across the crowded room, Roronoa Zoro lifted a sun-faded, wide-brimmed leather hat off his head and looked up to meet Sanji’s gaze for the first time in seven years. “Hey, cook,” he said.
    Sanji calmly reached beneath the bar and hefted a shot glass into his hand, tossing it straight up and catching it in his palm to test the weight. Then he wound up and flung it unceremoniously at Zoro’s traitorous skull.
    “Get the fuck,” Sanji said, “out of my bar.”

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    09 May 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 29

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    Grace doesn't know how to tell Rocky that he's gonna starve to death on Erid. Rocky's pretty smart. He figures it out himself.

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    05 May 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 35

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    He grins again, somehow equally unbothered by the fact he has just toppled several feet to the floor, and that their experiment was—at least somewhat—foiled again. Or that he’s presently effectively straddling Viktor.

    Not for the first time, Viktor finds himself wishing that his matching expression could show through the visor somehow. 

    And then he thinks, with a startling and almost desperate clarity: 

    It could.

    Or: Zaunite shut-in Viktor hides in his lab and behind his mask, until a tipsy Academy drop-out stumbles into his life on a reckless gander into the Undercity. Something blooms.

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    04 May 2026

  4. Public Bookmark *

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    The Eridian thrills a high sound that doesn’t get picked up by the translator which means that it has no clear meaning. Like when a human gasps or sucks in a deep breath. It actually sounds a little like that. When they notice that I’m staring straight at them they scramble back into their hiding spot and hold very still. 

    A child, I realize with a start.

    That’s a child! 

    “Hey,” I call and the kid squeaks again. I was about to get to my feet but abort the movement and crawl closer on my hands and knees until I'm inches away from the xenonite wall. I wait and it takes me much too long to realize that they don’t have to peek around the corner to see if I’m still there.

    “Hey there,” I try again, my voice low and calm. It’s my teacher voice, the one I use for shy and scared students. 

    Used. 

    The fact that I haven’t had to use it for years and it still comes to me automatically almost knocks the air out of my lungs but this is not about me, it’s about making sure the little pebble doesn’t die of fright from the scary alien. “Hi, I’m Grace. It’s alright, you don’t have to be scared.”

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    How Grace finally gets back into a classroom, where he belongs

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    01 May 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 18

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    “Forgive me. I suppose what I was really asking was whether you… if there was anyone you had an attachment to.”

    He shrugs. “Romance is not a priority for me at present.”

    That seems to pique Jayce’s interest. “It isn’t?”

    “If I had a choice in the matter, I would choose my independence,” Viktor says in a rush. “But alas. Society dictates that I must marry or beg. And I will not beg.”

    He’s not entirely sure what prompts him to be so recklessly honest, and regrets it almost immediately. But Jayce simply nods.

    “It is unfair,” he says quietly.

    Or, how to rationalise accepting a proposal of marriage from a man you’ve only just met.

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    25 Apr 2026