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    “Phainon,” he gasps, “you are not going to believe this.”

     

    “Believe wh—” He lets out a startled sound as Cicero grips him by the shoulders, staring deeply into his eyes. “The prince—the prince he’s—he’s here!”

     

    Phainon blinks. “Huh?”

     

    “The crown prince of Castrum Kremnos? Mydeimos the Undying, Son of Gorgo, Conqueror of—whatever!” He flails his hands around like a mad man. “He’s in the special lounge for esteemed guests right now and—ugh, Phainon, please take my place!”

     

    “What?” Phainon gapes.

    Struggling to keep up with piling funds and a sick mother, Phainon — a farmer’s son — seeks an education and becomes an apothecary in a famed brothel house. Tending to the wheat fields, taking care of the escorts, and serving drinks because he might as well! So far, his life has been completely normal.

     

    That is, until the Crown Prince of Castrum Kremnos mistakes him for a courtesan.

     

    (Alternatively, a newly debuted Mydeimos is dragged down to a brothel house to cause a scandal and scare off potential brides. He ends up entering into a fake courting with a bewitching courtesan.)

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    13 Nov 2025

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    “You’ll break your ankle if you do it like that.”

    The things that happen in flashes of moments, leading to roads unthought of, is how people can end up in the most unexpected of places — for Phainon turns on his heel abruptly, failing to catch himself in time as he trips over his own boot. Time slows for him as he waits, waits, and waits for his back to hit the ice. There is a poet, whose work he read in the tucked-away corner of the library where cosy chairs and warm mugs of tea steamed between him and his classmates, who once wrote; “the world will end not with a bang, but with a whimper” — and perhaps, this is how Phainon’s world ends.

    A young man from Aedes Elysiae. A man who grew wings to touch greatness only to fall back down again. An angel found in the cold, lifeless fluorescence of a skating rink. Phainon; he almost had it all.

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    06 Nov 2025

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    Phainon is an actor at Okhema’s tiny community theater. Mydei wants to help him find a bigger stage to shine on.

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    22 Sep 2025

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    “Hey,” the voice came, low and rough, like it hadn’t been used much that day.

    Mydei glanced back. The stranger was watching him now, expression unreadable.

    “You play violin?” he asked, nodding at the case by his side.

    He froze for a second, raising an eyebrow. “Yes.”

    “That explains the fingers.”

    He stared down at his hands, unconsciously—messily made band aids covering his fingers.

    The stranger shrugged. “Calluses. I’m guessing... classical training? But you don’t look like you play safe.”

    That shouldn’t have struck as deeply as it did. Mydei swallowed. “I don’t know what that means.”

    “Means you probably play like you’re trying to bleed.”

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    Cyrene smiles, her eyes curving up into half-moons. “Destruction is a path that seeks its own end. Let’s… write a story without such a morbid conclusion.”

    Phainon expects death to greet him like a warm embrace. Instead, he wakes up in a world that asks him to live instead of die.

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    29 Jul 2025