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    In this vile symbiosis, perhaps there was an evolution: the parasite has realized it does not wish to kill Qifrey fast, lest it lose its primary source. It has grown slow, ignorable.

    He does not feel it, and he feels it, or is that his eye, the ache in his cranium? What is cause and what is effect, will he unravel, here, in front of his apprentices, his cap a staircase away?

    (or, qifrey’s no-good, all terrible dinner.)

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    22 Jun 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 36

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    Qifrey knows by now not to expect anything less than an ambush when he’s summoned to an audience with Beldaruit, but there’s a tiny, ridiculous part of him that holds out hope each time. For what, he’s not entirely sure. That his old master simply wants to see him, with no ulterior motive? Would that be too much to ask?

    At least today, Beldaruit wastes no time with niceties. “You need a break,” he announces the moment Qifrey crosses the threshold of the Argentgard.

    “Do I?” he replies, then adds, “Hello to you as well.”

    “Yes, yes, hello my dear boy.” Beldaruit waves a hand as if he can flutter clean through the niceties. “When was the last time you had a proper vacation?”

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    17 Jun 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 47

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    They were in the garden when it happened.

    Coco rounds a corner, breathing hard— she doesn't have much time, those brimmed hats will be back any moment, and she has to check these rooms while Agott distracts them, and she can't leave her on her own that long, they all have to get out alive, and—

    A single blue eye stares at her, startled. Coco almost trips— she catches herself on the wall just in time, feeling as if her heart has stopped.

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    17 Jun 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 34

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    Orugio knows the exact sound of Qifrey's footsteps when he's lying. When the atelier's master returns in the dead of night, smelling of ozone and river water, Orugio decides he's done turning a blind eye. A quiet night of patching wounds becomes the first fracture in Qifrey's carefully constructed mask.

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    15 Jun 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 46

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    He thinks to himself: I cannot do this anymore. Tests the thought on his tongue without speaking it aloud. Thinks: I'd rather die than live like this, with everything I want at my fingertips and none of it allowed to me. In this of all places, he can be allowed honesty. So: Does he mean it?

    Qifrey had never even considered taking on apprentices, at first. But navigating a life outside of the Great Hall forces him to consider what he wants to do with the time he has left.

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    15 Jun 2026