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    Grace is unwell. Simon's arrival into the dome throws this into stark relief.

    It's Grace's turn to be wretched and inconsolable.

    (In which there is, in no particular order: religious psychosis, ghosts, time travel, shenanigans, 2 really awkward dudes who want to smash but can't figure out how to go about doing it, and finally, healing and comfort from a life that's been hard.)

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    04 Oct 2026

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    Commander Simon Fisher, Prince of the Old Blood, did not make it out of the Consolidation Wars without leaving pieces of his body, his faith, and his sanity behind. But the proud and resource-starved kingdom of Edenne needs him for one last mission: they're marrying him off to fulfill a treaty without so much as a "thank you for your service."

    His Royal Highness, Prince Doctor Ryland Grace of Francisco would much rather be studying beetles than navigating the perils of court intrigue. Marrying a stranger would be bad enough, but when it turns out that Prince Ryland's new fiance is not just a savage Edenne warrior, but the Butcher of Filament Fortress himself? Let us say that the Prince-Doctor does not handle this well.

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    Welcome to the arranged-marriage royalty BloodyMary AU you didn't think you needed.

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    03 Oct 2026

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    Captain Simon Park and his crew agree to kidnap Lord Ryland Grace for ransom.

    It ought to be simple enough: take the supposedly sickly heir from his father’s estate, keep him safely aboard the Iron Starling for a handful of weeks, and return him once Count Grace decides his only son is worth paying for.

    Except Ryland is neither sickly nor difficult. He is polite, capable, strangely resigned to his own captivity—and, before long, slipping into lessons beneath the open sky, shared meals, borrowed names, and the quiet rituals of a crew that has made a family out of the unwanted.

    Then the ransom goes unanswered.

    And Simon begins to wonder whether anyone ashore ever intended for Lord Ryland Grace to come home at all.

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    23 Sep 2026

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    Two weeks after the disaster of a conference that was meant to be his academic victory run and the successful start of the rest of his life as a molecular biologist, Ryland Grace escapes to one of Washington’s state parks. Hiding away in his twin brother’s cabin, Ryland has to come to terms with the fact that the life he worked so hard for had slipped right through his fingers because his ego had been larger than his logical brain, and now he’s haunted by a community of scientists and online enthusiasts yearning to run what little is left of his dignity into the ground.

    But as a hike, one fuelled mostly by spite because obviously he didn’t learn his lesson just yet, goes south, he’s forced to call the rangers for help. And because life hates him, the ranger who told him not to wander into the woods is the one to take his call.

    Something about ranger Simon’s disapproving and definitely disappointed look cuts deeper than he anticipated.

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    26 Jul 2026

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    Through the spite of the spirits or plain rotten chance, a door that would have been better left untouched has opened. On the other hand, with Fire and Earth as one's allies, sometimes escaping is the easy part.

     

    Even the Dragon-King's temple floods.

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    25 Jul 2026