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    He’s like all the others, when they bring him in. More than half dead, covered in mud. Leg almost hanging off him, just a mess of torn flesh and exposed bone. Likely won’t survive. God knows Inej has seen better off than him succumb to their injuries.

    Northern France, 1917. In a battlefield hospital, Corporal Kaz Rietveld lies gravely wounded. His nurse is determined that he will not be another thing she loses to this war.

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    24 Jul 2025

  2. Public Bookmark 51

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    When Inej, Nina, Jesper and Wylan find a strange gadget that brings them nine years to the past, they think it's fate; after all, if they hadn't been on the farm in Lij at this exact moment, a farmer would have gotten run over by his plow.

    But when they save him and travel back to their own time, everything is different; the Slat is gone, the Dregs are nonexistant, Inej is still in the Menagerie, Nina is part of the Dime Lions, Jesper is debt-ridden and Wylan is deathly sick. And Kaz...Kaz is on a farm in Lij, living a safe, content life for himself with his father and his older brother.

    The Crows realize with horror what fate they've spared Kaz; and, in turn, what fate they've brought onto themselves. Now, they have a difficult moral decision to make...
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    Or: the Trolley Problem, but make it trauma instead of a trolley

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    21 Jul 2025

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    Inej takes a step forwards. Almost imperceptibly, Kaz winces. “Then what are you going to do?”

    Finally, Kaz meet’s Inej’s gaze, and she knows the look in his eye: he is drawing himself up, strapping on his armor. He is steeling himself for pain.

    “I’m going to go to Lij,” he says. “And you’re all coming with me.”

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    Or, when a job comes up in Lij, Kaz has to return home. He brings the only people he can trust on the journey with him.

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    20 Jul 2025

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    The house was a towering, Victorian home, hiding amid a copse of trees at the end of a long, winding lane through the countryside. When the car rolled around the final curve in the road and the darkened edge of the house oozed suddenly into view, the sight of it struck them all quiet in the middle of their planning.

    Lucy felt a cold anticipation spill through her; not something drawn from her senses, but something wholly internal.

    “It certainly looks the part,” Lockwood said after they had hauled their things out of the car and parted ways with the driver. The house loomed in front of them. It was a combination of rust-coloured brick and dark wooden wainscotting, the kind that is going for a rich, burgundy brown and ends up reading closer to dried blood.

    “Personally, I think it’s a bit cliche when haunted houses look haunted,” George said. “Would it kill them to slap some colour on it?”

    “Maybe that’s how the original owner died, the one who actually lived here,” Lucy jumped in. “Livening up the paint job.”

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    (or: Lockwood gets ghost-touched on a mission to dismantle a pair of spirit gates. Lucy does something unthinkable to save him)

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    16 Jul 2025

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    “Lucy,” Lockwood said dreamily and I turned to face him.

    “What?” I frowned.

    “That’s your name, is it? What a lovely name. It feels right,” Lockwood smiled softly at me and he reached out and took my hand.

    I could feel my face flaming, as George and Flo looked on in bewilderment.

    “Right. Well. Thank you,” I offered back, a little awkwardly.

    Lockwood leaned in toward me, to do god knows what. He tucked a lock of hair behind my ear.

    My heart was hammering in my chest, my mouth was as dry as the Sahara, as his face came even closer to mine.

    What the hell was he doing?

    George and Flo’s eyes were on stalks. I felt like we were all holding a collective breath.

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    23 Jun 2025