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  1. Public Bookmark 48

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    "You called it love," Dottore says.

    "Yes." Wind blows over the mountain range, pulling Baizhu's long, meticulously woven braid into disarray. Slips of silver peek through the coils of green. Color bleeding away, the way life bleeds red from a body, long after it has gone stiff and cold. "I loved him."

    "And me?"

    Even under the mellow spring sunshine, Baizhu's face is pale and ill. He gazes across the sea of tree-covered cliffs spread out before them, and the crashing roar of the waterfalls drown out the low, slow sound of his breathing.

    "I hardly know you."

    (OR: Zandik comes back from the dead.)

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    Undoubtedly, you were one of the healthiest subjects to find themselves on his tables. And that was the justification he'd used that first time his hands had roamed the expanse of your skin, checking for any deformities and writing down scribbles on a sheet of parchment.

    He was well aware that it was a foolish thing to entertain, what use did he have for some wide-eyed recruit?

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    24 Jul 2024

  3. Public Bookmark 75

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    The boy named Zandik likes a few things- machinery, knowledge, lies, and Baizhu.

    Machines can be repaired, knowledge passed down, lies maintained, but Baizhu is dying, irrevocably and irreversibly, the same way a candle flickers and sputters in damp air before gasping away into darkness.

     

    He lives, he dies. He lives, he dies.

     

    Zandik plucks the petals from a wilting lily and wonders, hazily, how much death he would be willing to barter for Baizhu's life.

     

    (The answer would make Celestia scream.)

    OR: Dottore sends a younger segment back to the Akademiya. Zandik meets a boy named Baizhu, and is reminded that despite his best efforts, he is not incapable of caring.

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    18 May 2024

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    For years, Rachel has endured abuse and belittlement at the hands of her parents, it's become the norm in her life. She suffers alone in the apartment she calls home. Child Services is called to investigate, and the secret threats of her parents make things worse. Only with an odd encounter with a gruff young man in the alley, will her life start to change...

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    04 Jan 2019

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    Failing U.A.'s entrance exam leaves you grappling with anger, resentment and bitterness towards society at large, and you work hard to convince yourself that heroism is shallow and overrated. Nobody seems to understand except your new friend, the arcade regular who never holds a controller with all five fingers. He knows exactly what you're going through. He thinks he can help.

    In which the reader is a regular at an arcade in Musutafu and forges a tentative friendship with Tomura Shigaraki, which gradually turns into something much, much worse.

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    04 Feb 2019