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    Once a year, the Herald takes a virgin, offered up by the community and selected by His angels, to use for His pleasure. If the sacrifice survives, some, maybe all, in their niche of the commune will be blessed with the Herald’s touch a second and final time when they join the ranks of His gloriously evolved.

    It is a position of great esteem and great peril to be the Herald’s sacrifice. Many do not survive it. The fear, however, is not of death but of the failure that comes with it. There’s a great deal of mystery around it, but everyone knows a healthy, whole sacrifice is better.

    So when the angels arrive at Jayce’s door the day before the ceremony, anyone who knows him is not surprised.

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    14 Oct 2026

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    After spending decades at someone's throat, when all the anger burns away, what do you do when the ashes feel like love? Can you trust the hands cupping your face, when they've curled around your throat just as easily?

    Jayce, despairing and tired, throws himself a two person party as he prepared to shut Hextech down for good. But when the Machine Herald arrives, reconciling between them might not be as easy as just kissing it better.

     

     

    Written for Bottom Jayce Week, Machine Herald day

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    11 Oct 2026

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    Aegon was not sorry.

    He owed it to them not to be. In fact, a part of him was gleeful. After years of useless struggling, he could finally save his country. The world, even. He would deliver them from the jaws of suffering into the wings of salvation, and he would do it with only small reservations.

    Duncan. His son’s namesake. The Man who had saved his life countless times, both from people who wished him ill and himself. An honorable giant that was both gentle of nature and fierce of will. His beloved Ser Duncan would pay the price. Bear the cost.
    His cost, the cost of his blood.

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    Very brief synopsis: Egg turns past Dunk into a dragon with blood magic.

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    11 Oct 2026

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    Viktor had walked into their lab in a good mood to see Jayce bent over, coughing and hacking delicate little red and white flower petals all over their floor. Jayce had noticed the interruption mid-cough and nearly choked on the next round of flora and spit, his eyes gone wide and his face the color of a tomato. Honestly, he'd looked more like Viktor had caught him with his pants around his ankles than with a common psycho-respiratory infliction.

    Well in the interest of honesty, Viktor had felt like he'd caught Jayce with his pants down in the middle of an affair.

    Those feelings in mind, Viktor feels his younger self can be forgiven for breaking the horrified silence by flatly commenting, "Gross. Try to get over that quickly."

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    10 Oct 2026

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    Suddenly Jayce is spun around. Viktor’s hands grab him harshly, one around his waist and the other beneath his jaw. Before Jayce can ask what's going on, Viktor sinks his fangs into Jayce’s neck.

    Right on top of his scent gland.

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    Commune Viktor bitches Jayce.

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    09 Oct 2026