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  1. Public Bookmark 45

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    Pete twists his mouth to the side, rubs his nose, conscious of being observed. “No, I don’t know. I’ve been thinking about a lot of things. Just staying occupied.”

    “The old escape hatch.”

    “Yeah. Yeah, that’s right.”

    “Okay.” Ray studies him a moment longer. “Well? Where’re we escaping to?”

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    Pete and Ray jump off a bridge. And survive.

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    01 Jan 2026

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    "What d'you wish for, McVries?" It was said by the boy Arthur Baker, two days before he would buy his ticket hemorrhaging somewhere in the brain. Pete regarded him for a moment.

    "I had a wish for a long time — years, actually, but... I've changed my wish in the last couple days." There'd been that easy, lopsided grin on McVries' face, the confidence of a man who was in on something everybody else was not: "From now on, I'm gunna wish that the Long Walk has two winners."

    He was scoffed at by the boy Hank Olson, one day before he would buy his ticket with his insides spilled across the road. He pressed on.

    "'Cause then, in the years to come, people can have hope that maybe their friends might just make it." Pete's easy, lopsided grin was matched by the boy Raymond Garraty, who had known what it is the boy Peter Mcvries knew that everybody else did not.

    Ray would buy his ticket two nights later, crying: "I love you, Pete."

    The brain, Garraty. Not man or God, it's something in the fuckin' brain. That's what Pete had said. To survive a bullet to the head would be nothing short of a hand-to-God miracle, but stranger things have happened.

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    21 Dec 2025

  3. Public Bookmark 9

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    A walker tries to rest.

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    20 Dec 2025

  4. Public Bookmark 67

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    "You think I'm a good man, Baker?”

    “Don't think bad men can love the way you do,” Art said.

    Or: Night four. Art and Pete have a talk.

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    14 Dec 2025

  5. Public Bookmark 48

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    A hundred years after the Decepticon victory at the end of the great civil war of Cybertron, Shockwave begins a new, rather indulgent scientific test.

    The purpose of the Re-Forge experiment is to see if a spark taken from a purpose-built cold construct mech can be put into a new protoform and naturally form a new frame according to its innate coding, and to investigate how similar or different the resulting mech might be, physically and mentally, from its former incarnation.

    The spark of the captured Autobot officer Prowl, previously stored in stasis, is an ideal candidate for this experiment, since much is already known about the mental characteristics he exhibited as a cold construct.

    Reborn with the frame he was always meant to have, and with no memory or awareness of his past existence, the spark of Prowl begins a new incarnation of life as a Decepticon and chooses a name for himself, Venator.

    Following an assasination, Venator is sent to track and capture the last Autobot known to still remain free, Jazz.

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    04 Oct 2025