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  1. Public Bookmark 8

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    Something fluttered like a bird against the cage of his ribs. Daniil pressed a hand to his chest, and almost broke down in hysterical laughter.

    For the first time since becoming a vampire, he had a heartbeat.

    It seemed to mock him. Heartless Bachelor, cold-blooded reptile, who’d traded his living pulse for a shot at eternity—at last, he had a heart again. And all it took was nearly tearing out the throat of his dear colleague.

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    Bachelor Dankovsky is a vampire. Everybody knows this. He's famous in the Capital for precisely this reason--he chose to become a vampire, an unspeakable heresy, for the sake of attaining greater knowledge about death and undeath.

    Artemy thinks that's a load of bull. Vampires don't exist. Stop peddling this nonsense around the Town. No, seriously, stop it.

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    “You're a surgeon. You would have dug it all out of my gut.” Artemy thinks of his face in the unnatural light of the Polyhedron filtering in through the window late that night, and he looks at blood-spattered skin in front of him now, the way Dankovsky is daring him with his non-commitment.

    “I would have.” Like many other things at this stage in his performance, it would have followed him for the remainder of his life, but he sees himself in that alternate path. Daniil’s cold eyes, his smock covered in still-warm blood as Artemy digs through a dead man’s stomach for the piece of paper that will save thousands of lives and condemn... A hundred souls? Are they that few? That many? Will he ever truly know how many of Boddho’s children he’s going to slaughter before night falls? Will he have the time to count them, or will they turn to ashes the second the earth bleeds dry beneath them?

    “I’ll tell you,” Daniil says. "I will – the way I’d tell a close, intimate friend.” Artemy should have kissed him that time, in the bed at the Stillwater, when Daniil was whispering to him in this same voice about their destinies entangling. Maybe things could have been different. “Have I ever told you about my Thanatica?”

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    "Well then," Daniil cleared his throat and opened a new page in his journal, "after considering our situation, I decided you could try to prove your Kin knowledge to be useful."
    "Very generous of you."

    A shared evening in Artemy's workshop is a perfect occasion for a discussion about Kin practices, testing each other's patience and a bit of fortune telling.

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    22 Mar 2026

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    “My father. I think he feared there would be no more menkhu after me.”
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    “He didn’t trust me to continue the work.” It is a mumbled admission, as though there was nothing more shameful in his life.'

    Artemy has some complicated feelings about his father. Daniil does his best to help.

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