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  1. Public Bookmark 48

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    Alhaitham finishes his novel. He dozes against the same window, smudged from where his cheek constantly presses against it. The other man completes sketch after sketch, traces racing raindrops with his fingertips, mutters to himself as he flips through notebooks. Leaves turn to fire then die in the fading sunset, until their evening rides are taken in darkness. Day in, day out, the comfort of their cyclical monotony perpetuates.

    Until one blustery morning.

    Alhaitham's days are easy rituals. He doesn't realize, until one occurs, that he's desperately needed the disruption.

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  2. Public Bookmark 62

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    “Have you started getting ready?” Kaveh says, stepping into the room. Alhaitham lifts his head up from his book, blinking at his husband by the door way, who is in the process of putting in his earrings. He’s dressed in a nice button up shirt, but only wearing boxers below the waist.

    “Ready?”

    “For the dinner? To celebrate Collei’s acceptance into the Akademiya?” Kaveh replies, annoyance already apparent across his face. His eyebrow twitches, jaw clenching just the tiniest amount, and Alhaitham quickly places his book down on the table next to him.

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    It was pathetic. Ningguang knew it was as she sat there by the window, waiting impatiently for the ship to dock.

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    22 Oct 2024

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    “I thought you said you could resist me.” Kaveh playfully knees Alhaitham in the stomach with a teasing expression.

    Alhaitham tries to think of an excuse. He really does. But with Kaveh staring at him with reddened lips, his chest still heaving from the previous events, all he can admit is, “I lied.”

    People tend to wonder how Alhaitham can resist Kaveh. The answer is that he can't. Rather, he fails miserably trying.

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    The water in Fontaine was different than the water of Sumeru, not just in clarity or taste, but in spirit. Others may assume that an architect would not be able to keep his eyes off the buildings in a city he wasn’t familiar with, and yet as the clocks around him ticked Kaveh’s eyes had drifted down to the ground, as if he was scared of seeing his own reflection in the passing windows.

    Or: Kaveh meets his mother for the first time in ages.

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