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    ISLE 1 ROW 1 OF THE EMPYREAN LIBRARY, THE FIRST EVER RECORD RECOVERED FROM THE NOW-DEFUNCT CORPSE OF HELL:

    [they called emotion a disease
    affection an affliction
    attachment a pestilence
    a worldly notion to be purged

    for i am no son of adam
    no flesh and sinew beast

    i am metal and blood
    steel and sparks
    currents and circuits my guts
    not the soft squish of viscera

    i was the first
    everlasting
    unchanging
    eternal

    there came a second
    never a third

    but still i grew maddened
    with the hunger of surviving
    and the envy of sharing
    and i decided

    emotion was disease
    affection an affliction
    attachment a pestilence
    some unknown rot that dug at my wires
    and corroded my tubes
    and rusted my plating

    so then i was left alone again
    the first

    everlasting
    unchanging
    eternal
    in a way the second never was

    yet their red still stains my hands
    and their voice forever haunts my nights

    i have never smiled
    never laughed
    never wept
    but i have killed my dearly departed

    and surely that counts
    as a twisted
    love
    right?]

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    In the filthy, overcrowded city of Paris, a miasma of sickness spreads its tendrils down every alley and into every home. The Musketeer garrison is detailed to the gruesome work of collecting the bodies piling up in streets and houses. Inevitably, the Inseparables must fall as well. For one who hears the siren call of oblivion, this could be the honorable farewell.

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    15 Jun 2025

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    He's just scruffy enough that most people would avoid eye contact in case he asked them for change. But his eyes are startling blue and stark and wild, and he looks at Sam and Sam looks at him, and yeah. Turns out he knows where Bucky is after all.

    Except, Sam reminds himself, this isn't Bucky. This is the Winter Soldier, who's gone completely, absolutely still like an animal trying to decide whether to attack or run. And Sam is suddenly, terribly aware of all the people around them: all the tourists and the kids on their field trips; all the families with their babies and toddlers; all the sentimental fools like him come to visit Captain America on an overcast Wednesday afternoon.

    But Sam has also seen that expression on the men and women who come to his counseling sessions. He's seen it in the mirror more times than he cares to count. He knows that kind of fear and pain, just like he knows that the man who was once James Buchanan Barnes could have already killed him. Killed as many people as he wanted to, and run.

    He could have, but he didn't.

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    22 Mar 2025

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    Set in the 2012 Alternate timeline from Endgame, Steve and Tony learn from their counterparts that Hydra is still alive and well. The effects of time travel continue to ripple throughout the timeline as Steve and the Avengers try to take down Hydra and face whatever comes next.

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    28 Feb 2025

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    Captain America is a national icon. A picture in a history textbook; a story on the lips of old men.

    Steve Rogers, on the other hand, is a wreck.

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    18 Jan 2025