Burakhovsky Week 2026
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Burakh's bloody hand reached out, splattering red all over Daniil's waistcoat and shirt. His palm met the ball of Daniil's shoulder and shoved him back down. "Stay put, I said," he bit out.
Day 1: Wound Care, Surgery
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- Part 1 of Burakhovsky Week 2026
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Their clothes lie scattered on the grass. On a piece of cloth sit four more bottles of the tincture, the knife Daniil now knows as the Menkhu's finger, bandages, a needle and a roll of red thread.
A warm hand lays on his shoulder. "You're sure about this?" Artemy asks, the tension around his eyes belying his nerves.
"Yes," Daniil nods. "If it will help." He's tired of living terrified of the next time he'll lose his lucidity and start heading for the railroad.
Day 2: Ritual, Boddho's Miracles
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- Part 2 of Burakhovsky Week 2026
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Burakh huffs furiously, not unlike a bull, and averts his eyes. His jaw twitches as he clenches his jaw. A droplet of blood falls down his cheek like a tear.
"You like it to hurt, huh?" Daniil taunts, sliding his hands up Burakh's forearms to his wrists. He meets no resistance. "Like feeling small?"
Day 3: Humiliation, Hunting Each Other
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- Part 3 of Burakhovsky Week 2026
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"You've been saying that for weeks, since August – hell, since February," Daniil protested, though he felt his pulse quickening. "A skirmish at a newspaper? How could this be it?"
"Call it a hunch," Platon said, wringing his hands. "Not very scientific of me, I know, but – "
Daniil had grown far too accepting of hunches lately.
Day 4: In the Capital, In Thanatica
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- Part 4 of Burakhovsky Week 2026
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He exists, still, then. This much he knows. There is air and he exists.
What was it he'd been doing before he came to a halt? He'd been starving been nervous been running been sleeping been reading been loading his gun been kissing his –
Day 5: You're Just a Doll, Mind Break
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- Part 5 of Burakhovsky Week 2026
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Artemy held no illusions about how unappealing his life must be to the esteemed Bachelor, all mud, pus and blood, all bullshit – literally! It didn't stop him from having thoughts sometimes, silly fantasies that would have surely been off-putting to the Bachelor – dangerous thoughts of setting a table for four instead of three.
Why Dankovsky kept up with the correspondence at all, Artemy did not know.
Day 6: Family Portrait, Epistolary Relationship
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- Part 6 of Burakhovsky Week 2026
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Their eyes meet. The Haruspex forgets his line.
"W-why?" is what he comes up with, voice cracking. That's not it, it was something about them being alike – The word sounds strange coming from his yet unused vocal chords, feels ticklish in his throat.
Day 7: Repetition, Breaking Character
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- Part 7 of Burakhovsky Week 2026
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It isn't clear to Daniil why he keeps coming back to this moment. The riverbank, Artemy sitting hunched over a rock the day of his father's funeral, clearly not wanting to be bothered. There are countless other things Daniil could be redoing, twelve days in the Town to explore and edit, yet every time he ends up anywhere close to his second day in the Town, he finds himself here.
Day 8: Time Travel, Time Loop
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- Part 8 of Burakhovsky Week 2026
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"Dankovsky?" Burakh asks, voice urgent, reaching for him, face open in question, before realisation falls onto it, darkening his features – "Don't tell me you – "
"It is done," Simon says with Dankovsky's voice.
Day 9: Meeting with Parents, Soulmates
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- Part 9 of Burakhovsky Week 2026
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"You made these?" Dankovsky asked, turning the cuffs over in his hands. The carabiner clasp connecting them glinted as it moved. Dankovsky's face looked nonplussed in the dim lamplight of Artemy's bedroom.
"Stitching's that shoddy, huh?" Artemy tried for a joke, his nerves taking over. Dankovsky shot him a glance under his brows and Artemy shut up immediately. He hadn't done anything like this before – neither one of them had, addressing their little arrangement outright.
"They're well made," Dankovsky said. "I'm simply assuming they are for our eyes only."
Day 10: BDSM, Bondage
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- Part 10 of Burakhovsky Week 2026
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"I'm sure there's many things we haven't tried," Artemy said.
"I don't mean one of your possible elaborate fetishes, or mine for that matter, I mean – " Daniil huffed in exasperation. "Where are the anatomy books?"
"Hm? Sticky's room, I suppose. Tell me more about these elaborate – No, don't – " Artemy groaned, but Daniil was already sitting up.
Day 11: Exploration, Expectations
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- Part 11 of Burakhovsky Week 2026