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  1. Public Bookmark 57

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    Of all the trials she’d been set since she had come to the White Tower, somehow the most impossible was to lie beside Siuan in her gauzy nightdress, to feel the shape of Siuan’s body against her own in bed drowsy and supple with sleep-heat. On some nights when the fire was high, a faint seal of sweat would form between them like a kiss in places where their bare skin touched, and she swore to herself that she’d forgo bedding with Siuan altogether, and never mind the cold. But somehow she never could.

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    25 Oct 2023

  2. Public Bookmark 83

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    In which Harrow is very certain she does not have a stick up her ass, Gideon has some doubts about the usefulness of anatomy textbooks, and they both find talking very difficult, despite doing a lot of it.

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    01 Jul 2023

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    You had your body and I had mine, and it was a miracle. Your hands against my face were a miracle. The rest of your meat attached to your hands was a prayer answered and a promise broken, but we were flush and gasping and alive, and Harrow—I really thought you might’ve kissed me then.

    But I felt it happen. The way your breath suddenly stilled, and your body locked up beneath mine, remembering. How with splintering gentleness, you pushed me away.

    “I’m so sorry,” was the second thing you said upon waking.

    The first thing had been my name.

    Stranded in a safehouse on an Edenite moon, Gideon and Harrow try to put themselves back together.

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    01 Jul 2023

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    Eight years later.

    "To bid goodbye, is to say, ‘I must put you into God’s hands, since I can no longer hold you in mine.’ A goodbye is a capitulation to forces bigger, stronger than ourselves, than our wills, our desires. It is a surrender, of someone dear, to the questionable mercies of the world. One quite literally gives them up.” She sipped at her wine. “Goodbyes are shattering, and devastating, and holy. And life is full of them. Do not try to make them easy. Far better to make them worthwhile."

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    01 Jan 2023

  5. Public Bookmark 29

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    The first time Vi well and truly gets her ass absolutely, completely whooped in a Pokemon battle, it’s by a woman from Sinnoh who sends out a Glaceon against a Fire-Type in the middle of the desert and doesn’t think twice about it.

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    Ferris wheel rides in Nimbasa, ice cream cones in Castelia, and two Pokemon Trainers that keep meeting up in and around Unova’s sister cities.

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    04 Apr 2022