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A whirl of black smoke, a plume of blue flame, the acrid, pungent smell of sulphur. Every candle in the room flickered and sputtered out. There was a thick and terrible darkness suddenly present in the gloom, roiling and twisting upon itself; and from deep within it, came an awful, unrelenting, inescapable sensation of being watched.
The great demon Birhartura glowered out from the darkness at the pit of its summoning circle, bewildered, peevish, and still half-asleep.
What in all the hells did they want this time?
It had not been summoned for a very, very long time.
The demon Birhartura is summoned by some idiot mortal wizard. This would usually be very inconvenient - but this time, the terrified, broken-legged little peasant girl they have left as a sacrifice for it is also, somehow, one of the most powerful mages it has ever been in the presence of.
If only it could get her to believe that, and free them both.
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- Part 1 of Wisdom
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Dichot performs an act of magic to save some fellow serfs, instinctively, without knowing how. Terrified that he's a changeling, but reluctant to kill him as they know they should, the others tie him up and leave him for the wizard. It's not an act of mercy, not really. They all know what happens to the children given to the wizard — what happens to them in the end, anyway.
But the wizard isn't there anymore.
Three years ago, he was killed by two of his captives.
There's still a very powerful mage in the tower. It's just that she's not at all what Dichot expects.
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- Part 2 of Wisdom
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16 Jan 2026
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Dean's never seen himself as a particularly optimistic person.
But even if he had. He thinks he'd have had trouble feeling overly positive about his new owner. A thirty-year old weirdo, some lonely alpha shut inside a malfunctioning lighthouse like it's his own personal fortress. Plus, the kindhearted captain, reluctant to bring him up. The people in town, who don't see much of him.
Dean, about to be thrown to the wolves.
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When his dad comes back into the clearing with a scrawny kid he's just bought in tow, Dean isn't surprised. He knows Lilim aren't human, that they're creatures, like witches or wendigo.
But the kid that John's got by the arm, who's pulled as far away from Dean's dad as possible without actually trying to get his arm back, the kid whose eyes don't leave John and are bright with fear, the kid who looks like he hasn't eaten in a couple of days and is obviously favoring his left leg...
This kid looks an awful lot like a person. And what's more, he's the same age Sammy would have been.
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- Part 1 of Semper Familia
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A month after Grant’s death, a captured Nightwing pops up on Slade’s radar.