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  1. Public Bookmark 42

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    Flashing images of a middle-aged woman at a bar, her hand around Guy's throat, thumb pressing below his chin as she whispers “Good boy…” into his ear.

    A college professor – an older man with greying hair - putting his hand on Guy’s shoulder and praising him on his last paper, promising him a bright future ahead if he keeps this up.

    A woman with white hair and intense eyes, gently molding him and manipulating him into joining the Talamasca, telling him he’s very, very special.

    And then, tucked neatly into that little row of memories is the feeling of Jasper gently pushing his hair back. Jasper’s hand on his face as he disinfects his head wound. Jasper feeding him breakfast and laying out new clothes. Jasper taking care of him in all these little ways.

    “There we go, kid, let me see it…”

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    11 Jan 2026

    Bookmarker's Notes

    A great one

  2. Public Bookmark 49

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    “You could leave the Talamasca any time you want. You can come with me right now, it could be us together like it should’ve been in the first place. I’ve told you that—”

    “With you?” Guy laughs. And the thought you tried to kill me yourself crosses his mind, because of course it does and maybe it always will, and he knows Jasper is expecting him to voice it. But they’ve already fought about it, haven’t they? And it’s not what’s really concerning Guy right now. “From what I can see, you can’t even protect yourself.”


    Post-season 1, after Jasper escapes Amsterdam and Guy is dragged back into the Talamasca, they continue to meet in secret when they can.

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    01 Jan 2026

    Bookmarker's Notes

    This is how you make the reader suffer

  3. Public Bookmark 88

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    Jasper’s hand lays over his heart, and his whole body jolts without moving. Those terrifying eyes stare at him, and he stares back even as the pulse pound of his heart roars, thumpthump thumpthump, a pace that Jasper can surely feel under his hand. No heat seeps through the touch but the press of it roots him even as it unmoors him. Jasper has moved closer somehow, the negligible height difference between them means that they’re now eye to eye. He wants to blink; he wants to look away; he wants to flinch.

    I can see why they sent you.

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    Guy tries to elevate himself to player from pawn.

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    31 Dec 2025

    Bookmarker's Notes

    Always reread

  4. Public Bookmark 38

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    He can feel him before he sees him, like a thumb pressed to the inside of his skull, the soft scrape of a familiar mind against his. One life, Jasper thinks, and look at the mess we’ve made of it.

    Neither of them move. Jasper has the ridiculous thought to pinch himself, see if he’s not transparent, as if he’s a projection illuminated only by want. Guy is thinner than he remembers. His hair is shorter (curious, that), shadows under his eyes darker than they used to be. He looks sharper. He’s focused, more precise, whittled after the year-or-so that he’s probably been on the run. Jasper is aware of the exact distance between them, the corridor of it; the want is suddenly almost audible, a roar in his ears, a string stretched between them.

    Jasper's free, Guy is God-knows where. They should probably never speak again, but they do.

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    15 Dec 2025

    Bookmarker's Notes

    The best Gasper

  5. Public Bookmark 39

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    The boy is still a boy and yet a boy no longer. A hard edge to those pretty baby blues, a set to that lush mouth. Something's happened, something that has cauterized a tender chunk of his heart.

    He is glad to see it; he is pained to see it.

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    Some time after the events of season one, Jasper is rescued from Amsterdam. By Guy.

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    09 Dec 2025

    Bookmarker's Notes

    Fucking excellent