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  1. Public Bookmark 57

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    Caleb is a little bit of a thrill-seeker after his travels with the Mighty Nein. He sometimes heads out to take care of small threats to keep the population of the Empire safe, still a patriot but wanting to do it in his own way. This time he brings Essek.

    And yeah, then they have sex.

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    12 Dec 2025

  2. Public Bookmark 43

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    When Essek's mother insists that it's time for him to marry, he thinks he's doomed to spend the remainder of his life in a loveless marriage. That is until Caleb volunteers to pretend to be his fiance until Essek can find another solution.

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    11 Dec 2025

  3. Public Bookmark 5

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    Essek slowly lowered his head to his hands and sank down into his own chair as Verin cursed again. Even a deep breath was not enough to calm the paranoia sparked by that sentence. The Zemnian didn’t just mean any scourgers. It meant Bren.

    Scourgers were not an unfamiliar sight to those who lived within Vorastal. It was a simple fact of life within the encampment: the scourgers were always around, watching, waiting, and they performed raids when they thought the rules were being broken. No magic, no weapons, do as you are ordered, work where you are told, and no one would be killed.

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    11 Dec 2025

  4. Public Bookmark 7

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    ‘Home is the place where, when you have to go there,
    They have to take you in.’

    ‘I should have called it
    Something you somehow haven’t to deserve.’

    —"The Death of a Hired Man," Robert Frost


    When running stops working, the Blooming Grove is where Caleb runs to.

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    08 Dec 2025

  5. Public Bookmark 32

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    “No more children on the pyre.”

    Almost six centuries after Cognouza, when faced with the decision to either care for a small child or leave her to fate, Essek’s choice is simple, really.

    Essek has no idea what he’s doing. All that he knows is he won’t abandon Liesel Maier.

    But dear gods, he misses The Mighty Nein.

    At the very least, Jester would know what to do.

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    Or: Essek adopts a small Zemnian sorcerer and is summarily adopted by a group of fledgling adventurers with an uncanny ability to make his chest squeeze with how they remind him of friends long since lost to him.

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    08 Dec 2025