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The Plague ends. The town and its inhabitants, including the new ones, try to heal.
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21 May 2026
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Daniil cleared his throat.
“The Powers That Be are the embodiment of order. There are always threads in the universe that dare to hang loose, and like a moth to a flame, they are always there to tug on them. The Powers That Be unravel everything simply to see what falls.”
“So what? The plague is... it's all gone.”
Daniil noted the slight tremor in Artemy’s voice. Artemy Burakh also lost many things in the chaos. He must also suffer from the nightmares. He must.
“They wanted me to die in the plague along with Aglaya and Block and yet, the more information they received from us, the more they urged us to cure the incurable. To preserve the town. Do you hear me? They will not leave a town of miracles alone. It may not be right away… but they will send someone.”
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There's no choice but to build a new life and live with the consequences, and so they do. But the events of the plague left deep wounds with the pain and fear of loss ever looming.
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02 Sep 2025
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The Bachelor and the Haruspex huddle for warmth. Or something like that.
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01 Sep 2025
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“Burakh remembers the first time they had slept together (not like that, not yet); how they had tried to fit both of their selves side by side on Dankovsky’s single bed — how they had managed, somehow. He remembers the electric feeling of skin against his; how Daniil’s legs entwined with his like oaken roots, how the hairs on his arm brushed against him like hyphae. It’s that, then, now, for now; it’s something entirely different. They kiss now like carrion birds.”
An invitation of Dankovsky’s to a gala celebrating the triumphs of modern medicine (and his new work recalling the common fight against the pest) makes its way to Town-on-Gorkhon. Him and Burakh quite missed each other.
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13 Oct 2024
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A strange transaction in the evening mist of Town-on-Gorkhon. A man opens a door, ignores the frightened gasp of the lady of the house, climbs some stairs and hands her houseguest a human heart.
‘You look dreadful,’ the Bachelor says in lieu of any word of thanks, peering up at him with what felt like consternation. ‘Is that a fresh cut on your face?’
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Alternative title: three times Artemy Burakh arrives at Stillwater and finds more than he had bargained for.
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13 Oct 2024