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  1. Public Bookmark 3

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    04 Dec 2025

  2. Public Bookmark 24

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    “Fuck you,” Augustin says weakly.

    Paddy can feel his thighs start to tremble. With a devilish prod of his fingers, voice low and slow and syrupy, he asks, “What do you want, dear faery?”

    Augustin is quiet for a moment, during which Paddy can only imagine he is, as the French are wont, assembling the strength to surrender.

    Or, Paddy and Augustin have sex in one of the trucks in the middle of the night. For Paddy, it feels a bit like a revelation.

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    18 Jan 2025

  3. Public Bookmark 24

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    Eve Monsour had been the one to tell Augustin the news. She had cornered him and Paddy one smokey evening, where they were sitting in a back corner of the Empire Club in Cairo, their collars loose around their necks and a healthy dose of drink in their hands. Augustin remembers, with almost painful sharpness, the precise way Paddy’s knee had been pressed against the side of his own, hidden underneath the table.

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    18 Jan 2025

  4. Public Bookmark 17

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    A being of teeth, the cold light of day, the desert, a wool rug, moonshard, etc.

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    18 Jan 2025

  5. Public Bookmark 43

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    There’s been a man. Augustin keeps seeing him at the edges of his vision, just around corners, sitting in the gloomy areas of rooms, blurring the background of mirrors.

    He is tall, with a laughing sort of face, a wide stretch of a mouth, and brown hair that carefully curls over one side of his head. He never talks, but he meets Augustin’s eyes over the mess when Reg does something outrageous, gives him a grin. He rolls his eyes behind Stirling’s back at roll-call, and makes Augustin tuck a smile against his chin so no one can see.

    He is always, always standing next to Paddy.

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    18 Jan 2025