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  1. Public Bookmark 4

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    The darkness is a monster of its own.

    It bore its many teeth and claws, and watches with its many eyes. Its senses are sharp as it lies in wait for passing victims. It makes no sound as its prey was taken by one, two, multitudes of spindly limbs that are cold as death itself.

    Its gaze was fixated on Temenos who bore the burden of keeping this monster satiated. He had brought back the dawn, yet its light did not keep this darkness at bay. It presents itself as Arcanette’s gleaming eyes and venomous smile. It dances in visions of his losses and smells of rot. It is cruel and ugly, uncaring as it sinks its maw into the meat of Temenos’ mind.

    It’s terribly inconvenient, Temenos thinks to himself as he gazes up at a dark ceiling, swirling and pulsating, to have been unable to sleep for more than a few hours the past few nights.

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    Phantom pains cling to Temenos, cold and biting. Yet, the warmth Crick provides is able to drive them away.

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    22 Aug 2025

  2. Public Bookmark 6

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    Acatalepsy - the real or apparent impossibility of arriving at certain knowledge or full comprehension.

    [or, two very different men with very different lives coming to understand each other. slowly.]

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    22 Dec 2023

  3. Public Bookmark *

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    They're just a few hours out from Northreach, and Therion can't sleep.

    (Spoiler Warning: details some of the major events from Therion Ch 4, and some of the information from Therion Ch 3.)

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    23 Oct 2023

  4. Public Bookmark 43

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    Sometimes you have to take each other apart to make the pieces all fit back together, again.

    (Contains some very brief spoilers for events in Alfyn Ch 2/3 and Therion Ch 3.)

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    08 Oct 2023

  5. Public Bookmark 57

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    After meeting Darius again, Therion has a rough night.

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    07 Oct 2023