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  1. Rec 24

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    He wanted you to do that to him.

    Check him for signs. He'd fail them, of course. Rough him around, show off your gun, threaten him. You were the only person he'd been left defenseless against. That one, end-all weapon he bore for as long as he's known himself, reduced to something sensitive for you to play with, to warm him up and make him shiver all over again. 

    He wanted you to make him feel helpless.

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    01 Jan 2026

  2. Rec 6

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    It takes Homeowner a full minute of standing in front of the kitchen door psyching himself up before actually going inside. The neighbor's daughter looks up at Homeowner like she expects her father to walk in instead before going back to shuffling and playing with Fortune teller's tarot cards, her eyes still red from crying.

    "We've yet to finalize an appropriate rental agreement." Armchair lawyer guy materializes in front of Homeowner and he has to refrain from turning around, leaving the room and walking out into the scorching sun.

    "…And how do I do that exactly?" Homeowner asks, not even bothering to hide how annoyed he is.

    "Uhm, do you mean to tell me you don't even have the requisite paperwork on hand? Then… I suggest you find a notary and procure them, hm? Tsk, honestly."

     

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    Armchair lawyer guy insists one too many times about rental agreements. Coat guy intervenes.

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    31 Dec 2025

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    It is only when Caelus is safe, at long last, that Dan Heng lets himself mourn. He let go once, allowed Caelus to fight without him—and paid the price demanded by time in response, carrying his calcified heart over thousands of years with the prayer that he might find love in space and through time.
    There are countless things unsaid between them, hundreds of thousands of words that echo in the spaces they cannot fill. In the end, only three of them matter.
    In the end, there are only three.

    ***Spoilers for update 3.6***

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    18 Oct 2025

  4. Rec 58

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    Caelus lets out a whimpering sound at the contact, pleasure blooming low and heady in his core. Dan Heng’s body tenses against his, a quiet exhale slipping into the air between them that could almost be a curse.

    He’s hard. Dan Heng is hard, and Caelus is too, and he’s straddling him right now and he’s cursing and they're stranded on a strange world and Caelus is so, so in love with him.

    In which Caelus remembers, and Dan Heng doesn't leave.

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  5. Rec 23

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    Dan Heng could not pinpoint the exact time when the newcomer had burrowed beneath his skin, could not say what had been the final crack in the shell he wore as armour around his person, could not say what had allowed Caelus to sneak in underneath it. 

    He could not say what changed, nor when it happened. But it did. Caelus was burrowing into his skin, not unlike the plagues of propagation, digging deeper and deeper, devouring him from the inside, and he'd been none the wiser; oblivious and unaware, save for the weird feeling in his chest whenever the other smiled at him. (Dan Heng had heard of butterflies in the stomach before, but this was more akin to ants crawling all over his insides.)

    Dan Heng realised none of this until he stood frozen in place, Caelus plummeting towards the ground from the top of the Engine of Creation, a giant blade made of crystallised ice piercing his chest.

    Or: Five times Caelus got hurt, and Dan Heng could do nothing, and the one time he swore to prevent it from ever happening again.

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    22 Sep 2025