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  1. Public Bookmark 46

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    "Calling again? Do you really not have friends your own age, Felix?" Vein asks as soon as he answers, his tone teasing.

     

    "Again? Wasn't it you who called me earlier to make sure I was eating well and not snacking on sweets...." he stares down at the marbled bar top, his pointer finger tracing shapes on the surface...."Laoban? Can you come and get me? Please?”

    Xia Fei has a Bad shoot, and then maybe a worse time at a bar; but always his fingers find his phone, call the number, waits for it to ring. Vein comes to his rescue as always, and takes care of him.

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    07 Feb 2026

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    Vein inhabits every space like he owns the place, shining beneath a faulty, fluorescent light. He whistles as they wait, the crisp tap tap tap of a loafer against the ground, out of time with the thundering of the incoming train. Filling the not-silence. Xia Fei expects a reprimand: you haven’t been answering my calls, or my messages, a cool laugh low like the rumbling of metal, are you trying to provoke me, Felix? A firm hand on his shoulder, or a softer, still calloused one tilting up his chin, directing Xia Fei’s defiant eyes right at him.

    Or, Xia Fei hasn't been taking care of himself, and ignoring Vein. After fainting on set, Vein comes to him, and takes him home.

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    07 Feb 2026

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    After Vein's death, Liu Xiao prepares a banquet for Xia Fei.

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    11 Mar 2025

  4. Public Bookmark 45

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    So Vein doesn’t trust anybody. How could he? He hasn’t survived a quarter of a century walking barefoot through hell being naïve. If anything, he prefers animals. They’re predictable. They demonstrate their intent with raised hackles and bluff charges. They’re simpleminded, concerned only about their young and where their next meal is coming from. If Vein had the time, he’d probably own a dog or two. It’d be a nice change of pace, having a companion that doesn’t have a malicious bone in its body. He has ample evidence in the shape of stab-wounds and bullet-holes to prove that the hearts of men are tainted with corruption. They always have been.

    But God, (or whatever cosmic entity is running things out in the ether), has made a delightful habit of shitting in his dinner. It’s as if he’s got a standard-bearer hellbent on undermining him, or a trio of witches pointing notched knuckles toward Birnam Wood, because every lesson he’s ever learned fizzles out like a one-hit wonder the moment he lays eyes on a certain blond. 

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    26 May 2025

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    Not that it was a decision really. More like an inevitable outcome of this, of them, the type of relationship between an artist and their muse that usually kept one gripped anyway being fed by something else - a deep-seated hunger that Vein had to know more about Xia Fei, to peel him open for his eyes and his eyes only.

    Muses are hard to come by. Something Vein knows well and a point that Xia Fei is not entirely afraid to draw on when trying to convince Vein to let him help with his personal project.

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    14 Aug 2025