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  1. Public Bookmark 4

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    Doc pulls the flashdrive out of the tower, then hesitates. If he's lucky, he'll have two minutes to get out of here before the datacenter is swarming with agents. Soldats, to be specific.

    That won't be the hard part.

    Deimos is stamping the butt of his cigarette into the concrete floor when Doc turns back to him. Their eyes meet, and then his gaze flicks down to the gun at Doc's hip. They both know what comes next.

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    15 Apr 2026

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    The power fluctuated, lights going out. Phil was lying on the floor, staring at the ceiling, but his eyes might as well have been closed. The darkness was so complete it was like it clasped its fingers in his, breathed through his throat-- and then, slowly, he became aware of a shift on the other side of the glass. Faint, distant movement. A soft pulse of light, pinkish-red mingled with off-white, gentle bioluminescent flickers in the engulfing blackness. Fear twisted so far around that it turned to wonder.

    He thought the lights were multiple creatures close together, at first. Then the emergency lights hummed back on, and the lights on the other side suddenly resolved into a being, a huge one with a long snaking tail and brightness down its side and shoulders and flowing hair and was that a goddamn fucking mer--

    The mer reeled back and disappeared into the gloom. Phil stared after it and said blankly, forgetting it was only a plush crow listening: "What the actual fuck."

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    09 Mar 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 4

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    It isn't missing him. This, he acknowledges hesitantly. Tommy's a scientist before he's a son: he can't disprove theories just because he doesn't like them. But he's felt absence before and it wouldn't come in the middle of an autumn night, passed by with several opportunities to visit. It's reserved for late school pick-ups and spilled ice cream trucks, the early breeze of school wind. No, he doesn't miss his father. But he misses pieces of him.

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    29 Jul 2025

  4. Public Bookmark 4

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    The game ends. The map ends. The things inside them, their archetyping ends.

    The things themselves do not.

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    28 Jul 2025

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    22 Jul 2025