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  1. Public Bookmark 21

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    "Something Aloth has learned about himself in his 60 years is that he is not...good with feelings. Not that he doesn’t have them, of course, but he finds the whole business of describing them so painfully subjective."

    How do you bear a past that follows you everywhere? Aloth has managed by not looking too close, but he's getting tired.

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    Aloth is an anxious wizard, Edér is a restless veteran, and, on the watcher's turbulent trek, an unlikely companionship is formed.

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    22 Jan 2026

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    Essek goes home, and there is no one waiting at his door. This should be some manner of relief. But his towers haven't felt like a safe haven for a long time now, long before errant scourgers appeared to harass him with strange questions. He misses the immediacy of that threat, prefers it over the slow and indulgent terror of whatever punishment is coming for him, someday soon.

    He tells himself that he misses only that, the simplicity of being unsafe in the company of predators, and that he does not miss the company itself.

    (In which a pair of scourgers shows up at Essek’s doorstep and saves him from himself.)

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    08 Dec 2025

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    After the noose, something changes.

    “Jesus,” Hans says, incredulity finally snapping his control in two, “what has gotten into you?”

    Henry’s head jerks back. “What?”

    “You!” Hans says, waving his hands as if to encompass all of Henry. “Why are you being so...” Hans clicks his teeth together. The words jumble and flutter in his head: subservient, obedient, coolheaded, patient, forgiving, why did you stick around even when I told you to go?

    “Kind,” Hans finally settles on, weakly.

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    31 Oct 2025

  4. Public Bookmark 5

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    They didn't expect to fall for each other. At least, not like this.

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    13 Sep 2025

  5. Public Bookmark 48

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    She knew him too well not to notice those details: the cracks in his confidence, how he laughed less frequently than before, how any small noise was enough to make his eyes dart around the room, or how he never left his sword out of his reach. As a mercenary, he had always been cautious, but now his fear seemed much deeper than that, and Celeste still struggled to understand why.

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    Something in Cahara changed after his last job, and Celeste tries to help him open up.

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    19 Jun 2025