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    The room looks different in the daylight, but still the same, the same smell, the same sounds, creaking wooden floors, creaking wooden bed frame. In his shoulder, an ache where the arrow struck, just under his collarbone. In his chest, a racing heart, acknowledging its near miss. Acknowledging this new, fresh hit.

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  2. Public Bookmark 21

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    Achilles places his hand over Zagreus’s heart. It pounds under his palm. Blood rushes through this warm body. Achilles has seen enough blood to last a thousand thousand lifetimes but finds himself drawn to it now, that jumping pulse on the side of his neck, the promise of life barely contained in this strange and beautiful body. He kisses the pulse, feels it flickering under his mouth, and whispers into the echoes of the god’s heartbeat, “Let him kiss you here.”

     

    A love letter is sent from the depths of Hades’s House. Somewhere along the banks of the Lethe, someone accepts.

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    30 Aug 2025

  3. Public Bookmark 39

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    The weapon shudders in Thanatos’s hand, anticipating death. “You must hate me,” he whispers, “to keep doing this to me. To keep making me do this.”

    Zagreus is still, and Thanatos finds himself leaning in, chasing the warmth. He hesitates. His scythe shakes in his hand again. Impatient.

    “I don’t hate you,” Zagreus says, his voice and his face even, determined. “But I will break you.”

     

    Thanatos as the Asphodel boss AU. It’s snowing on the surface, the Phlegethon burns, and Zagreus’s infernal heat slowly melts through Thanatos’s icy resolve.

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    17 Mar 2025

  4. Public Bookmark 58

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    Behind him, footsteps. And a voice says, “You’re the shoemaker?”

    There is a moment where Patroclus only has the impression of gold—golden curls resting against broad tanned shoulders and a gold circlet hidden in his hair—before separate features emerge to create the image of a prince, finely albeit simply dressed in a white shirt tucked into a pair of dark blue pants.

    “The shoemaker’s apprentice,” Patroclus corrects him gently. He bows just a little. Green eyes watch as he does. “I’m here to take some measurements. For your new—” His eyes fall on the prince’s feet and the words die in his throat. He’s wearing a heavy wooden shoe on his left foot and a cloth slipper on the other. Patroclus tries to take it in stride but finds himself looking questioningly at the prince.

    “You are curious about my shoe,” the prince says. His voice is perfectly steady, unreadable.

     

    In the tiny kingdom of Phthia, a golden prince is cursed with invulnerability except for a vulnerable heel. An exile apprenticed to a shoemaker is commissioned by the palace to create a shoe the prince can fight in.

    A fairy tale about a curse, a magical shoe, a war, a doomed hero, an exile, destiny, and love despite everything.

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    03 Sep 2024

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    Achilles had never told me that he loved me, and I had never told him. It was always understood between us, a truth as natural as breathing, buried deep beneath our skin and woven in our bones. Yet when he said my name like this —Patroclus, Pa-tro-clus— repeated it like a chant, like it was holy, I knew well what he meant. 

    And so did he.

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    All of my entries for Patrochilles Week 2021!

    Chapter 1: With a Shuddering Gasp (Day 1: Music, Day 2: Deities)
    Chapter 2: When We Lay Together, on the Fresh Spring Grass (Day 3: Phthia)
    Chapter 3: On a Sunny Tuesday Afternoon, The Late Sunlight Glowing In Your Hair (Day 6: Modern!AU -- Highschool AU 1/4)
    Chapter 4: In a Letter (Day 7: Love Letters -- Highschool AU 2/4)
    Chapter 5: In a Way I Can't Return (Highschool AU 3/4)
    Chapter 6: In Awe, The First Time You Realised It (Day 4: Friends to Lovers -- Highschool AU 4/4)
    Chapter 7: Slowly, The Words Dripping From Your Tongue Like Honey (Day 8: Tattoos)

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