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not as she is now, but as she appears in my dreams by metaforests
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
14 Dec 2021
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Sara turns to face the Narukami once again, looks, yes, but sees, perhaps for the first time, the way her eyes crinkle, the shadows that nestle deep beneath her high cheekbones. She sees them move as the other speaks, as oil on water.
“And what do you think of that? Of me?”
“I—” she chokes, words failing her when she needs them the most — standing upon a realization as she is, on the prow of a ship far out at sea, having come across the detritus of another, all but lost to time.
It is easy to recognize their likeness, weathered away by five hundred years of storm and salt, until only the differences remain. Skeletal, fundamental as they are, “You have no God to turn to.”
“That I don’t.” An easy smile that pulls the shadows deeper still, an otherworldly creature that both haunts and awes.
Sara cannot peel her eyes away.
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in the land of eternity, two strangers talk of all things transient.
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“I didn’t keep most of the memories. Other people’s memories. I get flashes of big things, births, deaths. Except about you.”
Carol feels the confusion slip onto her face. Nervousness creeps up her spine again. “Me?”
“I know everything that anybody has ever thought about you, Carol. Every memory. Every feeling. Helen. Your ex-girlfriends. Your dentist. It’s like I have a Carol encyclopedia in my head.”
Carol had thought that she was done experiencing fresh horrors. What a nightmare it is to realize that she is not. “Oh, god.” She says.
“Oh, god,” Zosia agrees.
After they manage to break Zosia free of the hive, Zosia and Carol try to navigate the field of landmines that is their relationship.
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18 Jan 2026
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The sea comes and goes, and so does Joyce.
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23 Nov 2024
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She was leaving Martinaise for the last time when she finally heard the City.
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- Part 2 of The Unfixable Thought Machine
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22 Jul 2023
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In which Klaasje parties at the end of the world, Ruby tries to fix a broken radio, and nobody is saying even half the things they ought to say.
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08 Jun 2023
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“Yelan,” Ningguang says again. “Why do you enjoy pain?”
There is an uncertainty in her voice, so light that only Yelan would be able to catch it. (Yelan, who has mapped every cadence of her voice, every hitch of breath and muscle of her body.) Yelan chooses to ignore it.
“Worried about the long-term prospects of your most prized investment?” she responds, breezily.
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Yelan and Ningguang have an arrangement where they do not love each other.
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03 Jun 2023