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  1. Public Bookmark 23

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    Neuvillette stared at his reflection and thought: If he touched me, would I dissolve?

    He had never been kissed.

    Not truly. Not by someone who meant it.

    Not by someone who had wanted him.

    He could recite the law in four ancient dialects. He could interpret the subtle gestures of the Oratrice. He could pass judgment on murder, on betrayal, on cruelty wrapped in finery. But he did not know what to do if someone touched his jaw and asked, Can I?

    Could he say yes? Was he allowed?

    Was wanting something the same as deserving it?

    Or, wanting is no longer a sin, and Neuvillette learns to speak it.

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    13 Aug 2025

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    Mydei’s right here, right beside Phainon, like he always is, haughty and annoying and stupid and- he's alive.

    Alive- so why can't Phainon stop having vivid nightmares of spilled golden blood, a wound to the back incapable of healing-

    Of Mydei laying lifeless on the council grounds?

    (Or, Phainon starts having horrifyingly visceral nightmares of a past unfamiliar to him, and slowly begins to piece together that there is something more nefarious lurking behind both the Flame Reaver and Amphoreus than the Chrysos Heirs originally imagined.)

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    30 Jun 2025

  3. Public Bookmark 72

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    A shiver wracked Phainon’s body, goosebumps forming on his skin the longer his body was exposed to the chilly air.

    Mydei closed the window. Then, moved by instinct, and the deep hollowness of his chest, Mydei sat on the bed, placing his hand on the small of Phainon’s back, moving it slowly, sensually, up his spine. Phainon sighed, melting into his touch, into the softness of quiet sleep — into that unwavering, unquestioning trust. Trust Mydei would never hurt him, not intentionally. Trust that he would always be safe with Mydei.

    He would do his best to honour it.

    Phainon trusts Mydei deeply. Mydei honours that trust.

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    29 Jun 2025

  4. Public Bookmark 33

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    Kamisato Ayato, head of the Kamisato Clan, is sexually frustrated.

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    13 Jun 2025

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    “I believe the grenade that man hurled at you is actually a curio called A Widow’s Lament.”

    “Uh, a what?” Aventurine blubbers like an idiot. “What kind of curio is that?” 

    Ratio crosses his arms over his chest. “It’s a curio made by a scientist on Vega-IX. Someone from the Armed Archaeologists managed to discover this curio buried underneath a research facility there.”

    “Okay, and what does it do?” Aventurine asks, as if he doesn’t already know the answer. The painful throb in his chest is still persistently there, after all. 

    “I think you already know what it does,” Ratio says with a look of pity.

    Or in which Aventurine gets cursed by a curio that compels him to speak only the truth and refuses to go down alone.

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    26 May 2025