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    The tip of the mountain was just broad enough for a dozen men to stand abreast, and it balanced precariously on a much thinner base, like plates spinning on a mummer’s stick. Tiresias sat by the ledge, his legs dangling over the abyss. When Hermes sat beside him, he met his gaze easily, unseeing but finding him regardless, recognising him through the star-filled sockets of his eyes, a space reserved just for Hermes in the unending void of him. Hermes liked to consider himself one of these stars, somewhere Tiresias could always see him. He did always seem to expect him when he came.

    “Hermes,” he said, with all the recognition of birds returning home after winter. Hermes loved hearing his name like that, said in that lovely, droning voice, even and steady as the man Tiresias had been in life. He loved arriving somewhere and being welcomed just for the sake of his presence, needing to do nothing other than being there.

    “Hello, darling."

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    Or: The weight of mortality, and a place to put it down. An average day in Hermes’ life as psychopomp—and the leisure that follows when his work is done.

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    The accepted model of the solar system; the idea that the earth revolves around the sun.

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    Miles Edgeworth can’t stop coming back to Phoenix Wright.

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    He’s ten years old, sitting at the Von Karma table, idly pushing the food on his plate back and forth. He hasn’t eaten in probably two or three days, his appetite swallowed in the wake of the anniversary of his father’s death.

    “Tonight,” Von Karma begins, clearing off his own plate and dabbing at the corners of his mouth with his napkin, “I have decided that we shall host another mock trial.”

    Manfred drops a stack of files onto the table, spreading them out in front of him. Miles’ stomach lurches to his shoes, a pooling dread taking its place.

    The cover in front of him reads: DL-6, documents 1-18.

    (Or: December 28th, across the years.)

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    This house is her father’s last act of revenge, it seems, for his last will and testament lays somewhere within these walls, collecting dust on a bookshelf or perhaps locked away within a drawer. It seems fitting that his final cruelty will be a walk down memory lane, every reminder of her childhood unearthed like a corpse from a tomb.

    (On the eve of her father’s execution, Franziska von Karma revisits her childhood home.)

    [formerly titled "The Burning House"]

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    When Miles is shot outside the courthouse Phoenix tells the ambulance that he is his spouse so he can stay with him. At least he thinks that's the only reason.

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    06 Apr 2024