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  1. Public Bookmark 2

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    She hasn't blinked in the past hour or so, eyelids aching.

    Maybe much longer, she's not in the state of mind to care.

    If Thaisha closes her eyes, even for a second, she's afraid he'll be gone…

    Again.

    Again.

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  2. Public Bookmark 11

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    Her name is Vaelus – this, she remembers – and her sister had freckles, maybe, and her mother screamed as she died, and the halls of her family are empty and dark. She has a part to play in this story, and she wishes, wishes, wishes oh so desperately that it could be one that would forgive her sins, that it could be one that would allow her to make up for it all.

    She swallows her grief like water.

    By now, she has gotten used to it – the coldness and the heavy weight upon her shoulder – and yet she doesn’t think she ever will. By now, she is beginning to grasp what the word ‘grief’ – rotten and bitter in her mouth – fully means. By now, what's left of her family has begun to make plans, desperate ones, to somehow find meaning in life other than pain, to return the world, their world, back to what they loved so dearly.

     

    Vaelus cares in the sense that she would do anything, at this point, for no reason at all.

     

    For whom then, if not for them and not for her mother either?

    For nobody, she thinks. For herself.

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    (or: The world looks different, after.)

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    17 Mar 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 15

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    One day, Alice died. That was when her story began. That was when Athena began her search. That was the day it all started to fall apart. The world is burning down around them, but it's still worth striving to be free, and be happy.

    Ancillary Notes: First draft, don't care about spelling or continuity errors. No second draft expected.

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  4. Public Bookmark 8

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    And then she starts going through her notebooks, weary, looking for a solution to yet another problem—because Adaine definitely won’t see it coming.

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    17 Mar 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 2

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    On the Isle of Glintshore, the Everlight does not answer.

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