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    How long has he been digging out this stupid hole? One hour? Two? Two thousand?

    “This better be worth it, you stubborn beast,” Artemy mutters, slowly growing more and more agitated. He’s tired, thirsty, and hungry. He’s about to give up and attempt sprinting past Noukher to get back home when his fingers brush against something hard. His brow furrows together, and he tears away dirt to reveal the wooden surface of something.

    Noukher shrieks.

    The bull dives forward, and Artemy gets hit hard by his shoulder, which sends him keeling over. After pushing himself back up, Artemy sees Noukher furiously trying to widen the hole with his hooves. Beneath his fervent huffing and grunting, Artemy swears he hears a small sound come from within the pit.

    A whimper.

    What…?

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    vivisepulture

    noun

    vivi·sepulture ˌvivə+

    : the act or practice of burying alive

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    Steppe grass is beginning to grow atop the rubble of the polyhedron. The dream is over now, or so it seems.
    With nothing in the city left to return to, the bachelor attempts to adjust to life in town, but the chance discovery of an obscure thread of scientific inquiry may lead him again to the door of death.

    Perhaps the tower was not just an aberration. Perhaps its existence, however temporary, speaks to an inherent potential for miracles in this place.

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    Dankovsky is working. He is always working, taking care of one thing after another, and at this point it doesn’t look like he’ll ever stop. He’s slouching over his desk for yet another night and Burakh can’t stand it anymore.
    Everyone should take a break once in a while.

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    Even dead, the earth has a wicked sense of humour.

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    After the Polyhedron has been destroyed, and the Army has left the Town for good, the remaining Healers try to live the rest of their lives.

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    In all the mess after successfully defeating the Plague, Artemy becomes mysteriously ill. This falls on the shoulders of Dankovsky, whose life is ruined like the Polyhedron. The Lines make a new way, reviving the destroyed Town, the people, and their hopes. New come in place of the old, sometimes replacing it, sometimes absorbing it, and using it as foundations. No one stays the same.

    The story of two men caring for each other, trying to survive and recover after the Plague.

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    Though Artemy made his choice to destroy the Polyhedron he realized quickly that he wouldn't be able to live with himself if he didn't at least try to save the earth as well. Between that, saving the town, trying to get closer to a certain prickly prick and convince him to stay in the town, trying to care for his new children, fix up a home for them, and renegotiate the terms the Kin work under in the Bull Enterprise... well, plague or not it seemed like there was a never ending list of things that the younger Burakh needed to so.

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    “She likes you, Daniil. Sticky, too.” Artemy spoke tenderly.

    "I'm here, that’s all I am.” Daniil answered back when he was able to compose himself. "Should I leave, they would adapt to it easily and find a new passing interest... or fill in the vacancy in with another presence." He kept his words ambiguous; he knew that in the core of the concept, there wasn't a mystery, he would stay until they told him it was time to go... and there many ways to tell him to go. He was always listening for them. There was a sweetness and bitterness to the new experience, timidly coming in slowly in his life, and knew it can be torn from him. He didn't know if it would be a mercy or a tragedy if it was. He still didn't know if it was a welcomed distraction, or if it was a distraction at all.

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    Daniil learns fatherhood can be sweet, sour, or a mixture all at once.

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    "Sometimes, people form unexpected connections! Imagine-two people living in completely different worlds. Different habits, educations, and hobbies. But when they meet, their souls resonate! Connections like that make the world more... vibrant."

    γνῶθι σεαυτόν.

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    Lara has long been trading pleasant company to Vlad Sr. for coin, using his money to better the lives of the town's unfortunate. But when he dies in the Second Outbreak and she realizes their last tryst left her carrying a very unintended consequence, she must decide what lengths she'll go to in order to secure the future of her child.

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    Suddenly, Daniil’s hands were on him. For a moment, Artemy was scared that Daniil had snapped, that he was going to save them both from the inquisition the only way he knew how. His delicate gloved hands grabbed onto the collar of Artemy’s smock with shocking force. Artemy was used to seeing those hands performing such precise work. Autopsies, microscopy, tissue sampling. Never before had he seen Daniil use his strength, and there was more of it than Artemy had expected.

    “Come on, help me up here.” With that, Daniil leaned in, and pulled himself upward. Unsure of what to do, but hoping an innocuous explanation would present itself, Artemy closed an arm around Daniil’s waist, then lifted. After all, who asks the man they’re about to kill for help getting the job done? Daniil followed suit, wrapping his arms around Artemy’s neck and his legs around Artemy’s waist. Artemy moved his hands to support Daniil by his thighs. He squeezed, feeling the muscles of the thighs beneath his fingers. Rectus femoris, vastus lateralis, tensor fasciae latae.

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    It is not about this miracle that I wanted to write to you, but one of a much more mundane nature.

     

    It's about a man.

     

    Artemy Burakh, son of Isidor Burakh. The menkhu.

    Through several letters to his colleague in Thanatica, Bachelor Dankovsky describes his experiences in the town-on-Gorkhon in the post-epidemic days. From the local culture, people, and his struggles with figuring out what really happened, a certain local doctor keeps appearing more and more - Artemy Burakh.

    A character study that went out of hand...
    More tags are to be added as the story develops.

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    Block looks at the woman.

    (For MonstruousMay 7: Camouflage)

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    “It’s a nice, peaceful night. Do you really wanna waste that by arguing with me for three hours?”

    “Maybe I do.”

    “Khan, I will literally shove you into the Gorkhon if you don’t sit down and shut up right now.”

    “...Fine.”

    Two rival child leaders converse at the base of the shattered Polyhedron. They have a lot in common, actually.

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    “Sorry,” Artemy whispers. “Did I wake you?”

    Stakh is silent. Artemy is still charmed by the way he sleeps—with his hands tucked towards his chest, his chin pressed to his shoulder—even if it is terrible posture. When he turns his face is still tender with sleep, relaxed around the edges in a way it never is in the daytime. Something in Artemy’s chest squeezes and he turns, tongue too-big in his mouth, stomach churning.

    “No,” Stakh says after a long beat. “It’s cold.”

    It is; Artemy can see his breath fogging up in front of him. March is stretching out into a long, harsh winter. He presses his fingertips to the edge of the window pane and tiny droplets condense from the heat.

    There’s more rustling. Artemy glances behind him again—the sight of Stakh with the duvet wrapped around his shoulders is enough to startle a smile out of him.

    “Go back to bed,” Artemy tells him. “Maybe sometime between this century and the next you’ll make up for all that missed sleep.”

    “It snowed again,” Stakh murmurs.

    “I think it’ll keep until spring.” Artemy sways a bit—lets himself lean minutely into Stakh’s warmth, tentatively, like he’s a cat that will spook with sudden movement.

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    Block and Lara ask Artemy for something.

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    Lara knows she should not be doing this.

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    Daniil tries to return back to the Capital after the events of Pathologic. He soon finds that it's not as simple as leaving.

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    Alexander Block knows that he will die if he ever leaves the Town on Gorkhon.
    Now he has to learn how to live.

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    The only thing driving Clara during her short, twelve day long life was her conviction that she had the ability to fix the entire town. Now, in the Diurnal ending, she's failed spectacularly.
    She learns to live regardless.

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