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  1. Public Bookmark 3

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    Viktor knew there was something more. Not just the subjugation of the minds of the sick and depraved in the name of glorious evolution. As if that wasn't horrifying enough, Viktor sensed that he had harmed someone far more significantly, someone more important.

    Or: Viktor forgets what had happened to Jayce in that other dimension.

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    18 Dec 2025

  2. Public Bookmark 12

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    Tomorrow he has to put on a face. A face of potential, someone who seems just the slightest bit capable of living up to a higher standard. But how does one just do that? So far he’s only failed.
    He can’t cope with it. He is still sure he has plenty of alcohol in him, tainting his abilities in the moment. But he knows one thing.
    He can’t save these kids.

    Seven years ago Jayce lived through the Hunger Games and could call himself Victor. But to be fair, if he's anything . . . it's Capitol's slave.

    **Updates every Friday**

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    08 Dec 2025

  3. Public Bookmark 46

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    Jayce (number 0516) in Stillwater prison. He is used for pit fighting, the guards taking bets.

    "Tried to look at his sponsor, submissive, through his long hair. His sponsor’s eyes made 0516 rub his wrists, digging the fingernail over and over, until it bled in the shape of an upside-down shepherd’s crook. Favourite shape. He didn’t like to disappoint. He didn’t know if he liked or disliked his sponsor, but sometimes, rare times, special times, he told 0516 he did a good job."

    Viktor buys Jayce to be part of his work with Doctor Reveck. When watching Jayce as an experiment becomes too painful, they escape.

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    21 Nov 2025

  4. Public Bookmark 84

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    For the first time since this ill-advised escape began—breaking into Heimerdinger’s office, stealing contraband materials, forging his signature on a prisoner-release form—Viktor considers that he may actually be in danger. It’s the dullness in the man’s yellow eyes, and his bloody fingernails, and the white marks trailing up and down his arms. More than anything, perhaps, it’s his unnatural stillness. He looks nothing like the picture tucked in his file. He looks nothing like a person at all.

    “Jayce Talis?” he asks finally.

    Something twitches in the man’s jaw.

    “Yeah,” he says. “I was.”

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    20 Nov 2025

  5. Public Bookmark 49

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    The shape of a man takes a familiar form the closer he gets, but also foreign in his haggard state. And there is a touch of death to him, a smell of decay only the arcane can bring upon a person, and yet the first words out of his mouth are, “Viktor, are you okay?”

    If Viktor could get his construct to laugh, he would probably be laughing now, the miserable kind that might bring with itself tears. But he doesn’t remember how to do any of that.

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    OR: The arcane chews them up and spits them out somewhere unknown and far away from home. Jayce is dying and Viktor can't let that happen, but there are significant obstacles in his way. One, his power is diminished. Two, his touch is making Jayce's condition worse. Three, there's something wrong with him, too.

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    10 Nov 2025