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    “Sutures,” Daniil tells him sharply. His hand isn't moving, staying still between Artemy’s leg like the worst kind of tease. “If you move too much, they’re going to tear, and I’m telling you this: I will not lay with a bleeding man. Do you understand?”

    The threat leaves him at a crossroads; he can choose to argue, which he knows would be stupid, because Daniil doesn't do empty threats. On the other hand, not arguing would feel like giving in, and Artemy doesn’t like giving in.

    So he settles for a middle ground, which is sourly saying, “if I’m not allowed to move, how are you thinking this will happen?”

    “I’ll show you,” Daniil tells him calmly, “but only if you do what I tell you.”

    “That sounds an awful lot like blackmail,” Artemy points out. His bedpartner laughs, and now he’s confused, if intrigued.

    “Oh, dear Haruspex.” It’s a sigh, spoken against his ear as Dankovsky leans in close, and if the shivers weren’t enough to keep him silent, the nickname surely is. He only thinks he’s called him that once before, and it was when he was trying to make the hardest decision in his life. The contrast is stark, and it takes him out of himself for a moment. “I think there is a lot you could learn.”

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    08 Feb 2026

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    Resources, though abundant now, would inevitably run out. The plague had taught this to Daniil. A lesson he would have never learned in the Capital, for better or worse. Abundance had come to the town in the plague's aftermath, but he couldn't seem to accept it. All he could see was lack.

    But there were theories of another way to care for the sick and suffering. No pills. No morphine. Research pursued to determine the true power of persuasion, of the voice over the mind. With his guilt looming over him, the strange technique of hypnotism intrigues Daniil.

    And anything that intrigues Daniil, intrigues Artemy.

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    07 Feb 2026

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    Heliokleos has been messing around with Kheves for a while now, and it always goes the same way: a seven-foot-tall shark man folds Kleos in half and fucks him stupid, and Kleos desperately tries to maintain that he is not in love with Kheves (he is in love with Kheves).

    And then that seven-foot-tall shark man takes a sword to the ribs for Kleos, and everything goes sort of sideways.

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    06 Feb 2026

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    It takes Daniil another moment to even comprehend it, the sight of a body utterly decimated, not just opened up for him neatly, but torn open, with the Ripper’s hands still stuck almost to the elbow inside the mugger’s chest.

    Daniil finds Artemy in the middle of a kill and gets really gay about it :D

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    31 Jan 2026

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    If Artemy could memorize the Latin vocabulary required for an exam – that satisfied him. But beyond that, what use could he have for learning a barbaric, emotionless and clinically precise language like that?

    The answer to that question came to him years later, clothed in a snakeskin coat and with an arsenal of snappy remarks that somehow enamored Artemy as much as they annoyed him.

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    Artemy wishes to confess his love to Daniil. He's considering learning how to speak Latin in order to do so. But at what cost?

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    31 Jan 2026