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Finally Katara meets the shadow who has been following them and she will get the answers she craves.
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A journey into Zukos's mind through three phases to self-love, with a little help from Katara.
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Rinoa is forced to go on a blind date, but her plan to ruin it may change.
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C’è silenzio intorno a lei.
Dopo il frastuono della battaglia, persino la mancanza del clangore delle armi e dei botti delle magie è assordante. Rinoa ha visto una tale desolazione una volta sola nella sua vita, durante la compressione temporale, eppure ancora una volta deve trattenere l’opprimente nodo che le blocca il fiato in gola. -
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Police!AU. After Rinoa got to know Squall better, things seems to have reached a standstill.
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“Are there things you want to forget?”
He shakes his head, his jaw tightening. “Nein, there are things I have to remember.”
“What’s it like?”
“Ah… hard. Very hard.”
Molly nods. He fights the urge to reach out and take the wizard’s hand. “I’m sorry.”
[Mollymauk and Caleb talk about the past, and moving on from it.]
[title from “Normal Song” by Perfume Genius]
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17 Jun 2022
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Essek Thelyss, lonely and ambitious prodigy, comes to Nicodranas to make a risky gamble with the Assembly. At the water’s edge, he finds himself swept up in another dangerous entanglement he can't seem to escape — and as time goes on, he's less and less sure he wants to. Will his treasonous alliance or the sea itself devour him first?
(Or, the one where Caleb is a merman.)
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- Part 1 of till human voices wake us
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27 May 2022
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“I would like you to know me,” Caleb says.
It feels like a secret. Like the darkest part of him cracked open; all his months and years of hiding, of wrapping his arms and scratching the bindings, of not loving, not loving anything but an unkillable cat — it’s unraveling around him. He feels naked. He feels the way he did the first time Pumat Sol spelled him clean.
“I find that — I would like you to know me,” he says, again.
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18 Apr 2022
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The story goes: Caleb, a fresh-faced farm boy from Igrathad, moved to Rosohna ten years previously to achieve his dream of owning a bookstore. With a little family money from his parents’ untimely deaths and the sale of their farm, he rented a storefront and set up shop here in the Gallimaufry district.
Of course, he shouldn’t have let himself get so comfortable.
It’s mid-afternoon on a mild Conthsen and Caleb is reading behind the counter when the bell chimes above the door and an altogether too familiar face walks in: Essek Thelyss.
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As one of the Empire’s deep undercover Volstrucker, Caleb Widogast warms the beds of Taskhands, Lens secretaries, and wives of government officials to get any advantage over the Dynasty he can. But when he needs more information than the scientist informant Essek Thelyss is giving him, he finds his usual charms don’t cut it. A chance meeting in a bookstore offers him a different way in.
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13 Apr 2022
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“My father explained my delusion. ‘This fox is dead’, he told me, ‘it may not seem so, but once the frost melts it will rot like anything else.’ I found this untenable at the time. But now I wonder, if nature is capable of suspending a creature between life and death, how will humans inevitably attempt the same?”
Relentlessly, thinks Caleb. And without any thought for the soul.
“Curious,” murmurs Thelyss. “Have you witnessed any practical experiments upon this theory?”
“No,” he lies.
Caleb hears word of a scholar, one who lives alone. It is unwise to knock on the door of a man known to be a cold host, but Caleb is desperate and has little to lose. He enters thinking there cannot be anything more monstrous inside but himself. However, he soon sees and experiences what he believed was found only on the pages of folktales.Series
- Part 2 of the glory of hell and the virtue of sin
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28 Mar 2022