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    In which Bond is a retired naval commander with too much house, Q is a mechanical engineer with too many sisters, and they have lengthy conversations about decorum, bonnet-ribbons and philosophy in Regency England.

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    “I just thought you might go pay a visit," his mother suggested.

    “Me?” Q asked, aghast. “Pay a visit?”

    “He must be starved for proper gentleman company, now that he’s settled in so far from London--”

    “I am far from proper gentleman company.”

    “--and perhaps if you befriended him he could introduce you to some nice heiresses.”

    “Heiresses?” Q repeated, baffled and horrified. “What in the world would I do with heiresses?”

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    01 Sep 2025

  2. Public Bookmark 81

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    It's not the first time that someone's tried to kidnap Sakura to get her to heal someone else. Nor is it the second.

    It is the first time anyone's succeeded.

    It's also the first time she's been asked to heal a dead guy.

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    29 Jan 2024

  3. Public Bookmark 21

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    Hanzo’s dreams started to leak into reality and it becomes harder and harder to deal with, especially with his unresolved feeling toward Cassidy.

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    03 Jan 2022

    Bookmarker's Notes

    The melancholy and uncertainty in this is everything.
    It was imperfect, so it couldn't be a dream. (it had been a dream) It was imperfect, so it had to be a dream. (it wasn't)

  4. Public Bookmark 57

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    Not finding the answers he wants in the Underworld, Cole, son of The Reaper, plots his escape from his father. Again. And again.

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    02 Jul 2023

    Bookmarker's Notes

    It starts off aligned pretty closely with the Hades game's storyline, but I especially enjoyed the latter chapters as the story starts diverging!

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    Cole should have listened to his mother. But instead, he went and picked up a hitchhiker in the middle of the woods around 2:30 AM.
    Maybe it wasn't that much of a good idea after all.

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    02 Jul 2023

    Bookmarker's Notes

    It's sad and a little spooky!