Hildaeris



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  1. Public Bookmark 51

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    "Who are you? What's with the uniform?" He asked, and Lune met his eyes.
    "I, too, am an Expeditioner," she said slowly, repeating the words decades before Verso would say them to her.

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    When the battle with the Paintress goes terribly wrong, help comes from the least likely source: the Masked Woman. Lune is cast back to the beginning to find the truth about the Fracture - and hopefully stop the Paintress and her yearly ritual of death. This puts Lune on a collision course with Verso and his family, before they were cursed with immortality. But the Dessendres have their own secrets, and unraveling them could cost Lune dearly - not just the success and safety of the future, but her own heart as well.

    Mostly canon through Act II.
    There's only one Paintress.
    The world is real (not a canvas).
    Everyone is real.
    Lune/Verso

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    09 Mar 2026

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    It’s been a year since their fight with Renoir, yet to Lune, it remained an inescapable dream, a nightmare haunting her mind, playing on a loop again and again.

    When she would open her eyes in the morning, dazed with sleep, she could still feel the sticky mixture of sweat and blood all over her body.

    When she would shower, she still felt the phantom pain radiating out of every wound and scratch, the exhaustion of her muscles settling in, as Maelle exchanged final words with Renoir. She felt the adrenaline slowly leaving her body as they watched the petals flying from Renoir’s disintegrating form.

    The sensations of her body from that day have permanently edged their way into her memory. But that was the easy part of it. Easy to push out of her thoughts with a good enough distraction, almost manageable when hidden under piles and piles of work, steps of routine, half-hearted conversations. The hard part was what happened after.

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    08 Mar 2026

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    A surface where earlier layers of paint, sketches, or textures are partially erased or painted over, but traces of them remain visible beneath the newer work.

    It often gives the artwork a layered, aged, or ghostly quality, as if the past imagery is haunting the present composition.

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    07 Mar 2026

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    "Are the voices inside your head still yours, Lune?"

    She cut him a withering glare, dozens of truths and memorized speeches caught in her throat. He met her gaze dead on, irises near colorless where they once held a hint of blue. He didn't look away, and neither could she.

    "Are yours?"

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    Nearly three years after saving the Canvas, Lune is restless. She's uncovered every mystery, solved every problem, and reached the limit of what the world can give her. Never before has she felt the world so small. The only remaining questions all circle back to the man she refuses to see, and who has isolated himself from everyone else. But when a dangerous new Nevron threatens the city and Maelle disappears, Lune has no choice but to go to him for answers.

    Verso wants nothing more than to die. He'll settle for destroying any sliver of love between himself and those he called friend. But when Lune brings word of Maelle's disappearance and a Nevron he's never heard of, even he can't ignore the opportunity.

    Once bound by respect and something deeper, Lune and Verso have nothing but distrust and loathing between them. They'll need more than that to save Maelle from the Nevron--and herself.

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    04 Mar 2026

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    “Lune…” he rasped.

    ​“Yes?” she asked, feigning innocence, glancing at him from underneath her lashes. Clearly pleased with the effect she seemed to have on him.

    “Are we really here to compose music?” he whispered.

    ​“yes” she replied without missing a beat.

    ​“Are we here only to compose music?” 

    ​“Mmm…that depends”, she hummed, giving him a lustful look, eyes travelling around his face, dropping to his lips for a second too long to be accidental.

    ​“On what?”

    ​“Whether there is anything else you would like to do”, she said, meeting his gaze again, the provocation in her voice clear.

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    ​“We could work on the song, explore the flora of the forest, play gestral card games…” she said in a sarcastic tone. 

    “Or…” she leaned down to his face, her gaze dropping to his lips for a second. “We could engage in a different kind of art”

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