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  1. Public Bookmark 9

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    08 Oct 2025

  2. Public Bookmark *

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    The last stages of a case go dangerously wrong. Afterwards, Watson tries to live with the memory of a terrible bargain in secrecy.

    (Finally reposted from Livejournal)

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    06 Oct 2025

  3. Public Bookmark 45

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    Innocent is looking out of the window as though he can see something more there than the blackness of a howling winter night. “I find myself wishing for his guidance.”

    “If it is of any comfort,” Aldo tries, “He trusted Thomas to steer the Church through the Conclave. He was sure of his integrity like he was of no one else’s here. And Thomas has complete faith in you. You can be sure of his counsel.”

    “I know I can. He’s been a blessing.” At the mention of Thomas, Innocent had brightened, but there is something searching in his expression when he looks back at Aldo, like he hadn’t quite gotten the answer he wanted.

    Or: Aldo and Vincent discover that they have some things in common.

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    21 Sep 2025

  4. Public Bookmark 57

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    “May I ask you a personal question? You do not have to answer, of course.”

    Lawrence's eyebrows rose. Given some of the subjects they’d already discussed, he scarcely dared wonder what the Holy Father might consider overly personal. “My dear Vincent, of course. Whatever you wish to ask me, please go ahead.”

    Benítez smiled. “I was simply wondering. Are you and Cardinal Bellini... intimate friends?”

    “Of—of course not!” Lawrence stuttered, knowing his face and chest had to be breaking out in splotches of bright red color, and hating it. “What an absurd thing to say! I—I haven't... I would not—”

    Benítez just raised his own eyebrows, seemingly unmoved by Lawrence’s outburst. “Why not?”

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    10 Sep 2025

  5. Public Bookmark 18

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    On his phone were the old articles Sabbadin had sent him, naming him a “favorite candidate” and “frontrunning papabile.” Aldo could not deny the mingled pleasure and anxiety the articles had brought him in the days before the conclave. Now he saw how ridiculous he had been, to enjoy the tawdry feeling of popularity, simply because he had never felt popular before in his life.

    There had been such confidence in him. He knew he was unworthy of it at the time. He had not known how much.

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    Aldo struggles after the conclave. Vincent is there.

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    08 Sep 2025