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    After Hua Cheng is called in to do a rather simple task at a rather decrepit home, he finds himself replacing more than just the carpet in Xie Lian’s home—for example: the stove, the cabinets, the walls, the roof, and his heart (in Xie Lian’s hands).

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    06 Nov 2023

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    “Hang on—” Kaveh scrambles to his feet as Alhaitham walks down the path. “Where are you going?”

    “Home.” He doesn’t stop, doesn’t wait. Just inclines his head ever so slightly to catch Kaveh’s eye from the corner of his own, sharp and bright. “Coming?”

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    Alhaitham and Kaveh’s actions speak louder than their (many, many) words.

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    14 Oct 2023

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    Years. It has been years, yet it could’ve been yesterday they were sitting side by side, thigh to thigh, eye to eye, filled with a contentment that their future selves have lost. Maybe it would be enough to have that again. Maybe correctness has no place here—has never been the ultimate goal between them—and Alhaitham finds himself asking a very different question than intended.

    “How would you like to come home?”

    Alhaitham loathes interruptions. (All except one).

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    13 Oct 2023

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    Kaveh sighs again, and this time his features knit together and he squeezes his eyes shut. “Can you stop being clinical for two minutes and hear what I’m actually asking you?”

    “I am listening.” It’s true. “And I do understand.”

    “Do you, now?”

    “I do.”

    Kaveh pinches the bridge of his nose. The frustration there isn’t feigned or overblown—it’s real, deep in the lines of his face and the tension drawing his shoulders. “I’d want you to be here,” he says again, but quieter.

    “I will be here,” Alhaitham answers. “And it’ll be with the cure.”

    When an expedition gone wrong leaves Kaveh with three days to live, Alhaitham and Cyno fight to find the cure while Tighnari fights to buy them time.

    Sometimes it does take a village.

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    12 Oct 2023

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    Hua Cheng and Xie Lian catch up on some of the wedding customs they missed.

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    Direct sequel to Red Robes for the Wedding. The context will be clearer if you read that first, but this story can be read independently too.

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    01 Oct 2023