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    Essek returns, when he can, to the sanctuary of Caleb's home. The peace of it is a balm against the tedious peril of the road, which has more misery to share than Essek had ever thought. It's nice to have a place where he can lose himself: in a book, in arcane study, in the confusing allure of Caleb's smile.

    It's nice. And the cats miss him, Caleb says.

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    14 Jan 2026

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    “I would like you to know me,” Caleb says.

    It feels like a secret. Like the darkest part of him cracked open; all his months and years of hiding, of wrapping his arms and scratching the bindings, of not loving, not loving anything but an unkillable cat — it’s unraveling around him. He feels naked. He feels the way he did the first time Pumat Sol spelled him clean.

    “I find that — I would like you to know me,” he says, again.

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    12 Jan 2026

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    It is Heart's Eve—the eve of the Day of Heart and Hearth, candles twinkling through snowy windowpanes and song drifting in the streets—and Essek arrives unexpectedly, with no emergency (no gaping wound; no narrow escape; no half-formed fears).

    He hasn't done that before.

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    07 Jan 2026

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    It is a mild night in Nicodranas, and Veth is considering slamming the door in Essek’s face.

    He’s wearing a Disguise that she hasn’t seen before and an expression that warns of future vomit. He says, shivering, “Um. Hello. Please help me?”

    Veth, who is beginning to wish that she hadn’t answered the door in her skimpiest robe, attempts to surreptitiously cross her arms over her cleavage. She says, remarkably pleasantly, “Are you fucking insane?”

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    03 Jan 2026

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    Una Ermendrud meets Caleb Widogast for the first time when she is nineteen and pregnant, and he’s passed out in her azaleas.

    [Caleb travels back in time and saves his parents, the fanfic. Shadowgast towards the end; first half is almost completely gen.]

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    03 Jan 2026