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    “We cannot let anyone see us die. We cannot let them see us heal. We must get out of this city, away from them. If they catch you, they will kill you. If they see what you are…it will go as badly for you as it would for me. Neither of us is safe with them, you understand? You need me to help you get past them, away from this place. I need you to help me out there, in the desert, until we reach a port. Do you understand? We are the same. We must get out.”

    He stopped; he was not sure how to make himself any clearer, and the Saracen was not evidently interested in conveying anything other than his loathing. Nicolò waited, and after a long, uncomfortable moment, the Saracen finally responded. He spat an incomprehensible sentence in Arabic, heavy with disdain, and thrust his bound hands forward. A demand to be released? That would make sense. Nicolò hesitated.

    “Do you understand me?” he pressed, repeating his gestures. “We are the same. We go together? Away from here? Both of us?”
    The Saracen repeated also; his Arabic phrase, and the twisting of his wrists against their bindings. Nicolò nodded, and crouched before him.

    “I am going to free you,” he said. “Please help me.”

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    22 Apr 2026

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    Historical AU set during the Fall of Carthage (2nd century BCE). When Carthaginian merchant Yusuf first met Nicolò in Rome, he thought him simply a pleasant night's distraction from the looming threat of war between their respective homelands. He did not expect to meet him again in battle outside the walls of Carthage—or, well…anything else that followed, really.

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    08 Apr 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 35

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    “You want to help?”
    He should say no. He came out here to get some fresh air, came here to escape the dangers of being captured. He is not about to lose it all helping some dipshit vigilante.
    Torch says yes.

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    After seeking shelter from the Bishops of Dema in its smaller, 'child city' called Trench, smuggler and escapee Torch thought life might wind down for a bit. Then he meets the city's local freakshow, Clancy, and it all goes flying out the window.

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    19 Mar 2026

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    Yusuf rents out a cabin in the Yukon. It's just like he wanted; he is alone and there is little else to do but sit in his daydreams. He has traveled so far north to escape his writer’s block only, now that he’s here, it’s unfortunately clear that he’s still himself.

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    27 Feb 2026

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    If someone else were to enter their room and switch on the lamp they would be able to gather clues as to how he and Joe spend their nights. The hand-knotted afghan rug by the balcony door is askew, and a pair of empty whiskey tumblers sit on the coffee table glittering in the light. The bed is unmade, a discarded tie looped lazily around one of the slats in the headboard, and a chair is pulled out haphazardly from the heavy wooden desk in the corner. The desk itself is littered with drawing paper and charcoal pencils and crescent moon shapes scratches into its surface. The space smells like them, like Joe, like men and sex and sleepless nights. Nicky can almost feel the phantom sting of carpet burn on his knees.

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    08 Feb 2026