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    There's not much to occupy Shaw's mind while she's driving down the back roads of the Midwest every night, until she stumbles upon a late night conspiracy/paranormal radio show hosted by someone who's all too happy to let her call in and argue about anything and everything. (Trucker Shaw, radio host Root AU.)

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    18 Sep 2024

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    It makes heat burn up Beatrice's face the first time she rises early, fingers thrumming with anger and desperate to hold a bow, and comes upon Mary and Sister Shannon, cloistered in the entrance to Sister Shannon's room. There's nothing untoward about it, per se, a perfectly respectable distance between them, but Sister Shannon's hair is mussed with sleep and Mary's looking at her like she hung the stars in the sky and it's all too much for her.

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    Beatrice joins the OCS. Through it, she finds a family.

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    01 Apr 2023

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    Characterization...callbacks...continuity...this has fucked me up more than anything else in the world.

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    Before she can stop herself, Ava reaches out as if to grab Beatrice’s elbow. She catches herself before she makes contact, knowing that while she’s in this stranger’s body Beatrice would probably have her flat on her back in two seconds, and not in a good way. But even as her hand retracts itself, words tumble from her lips.

    “Bea, I—”

    Beatrice spins around. “How do you know my name?”

    Eyes wide, Ava stammers, “I—I don’t.” They stare at each other. Then, “Be safe. I was going to say, ‘be safe.’”

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    5 times Ava returns to Beatrice in this life, and 1 time they return to each other in the next.

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    12 Dec 2022

    Bookmarker's Notes

    This killed me, thank you.

  4. Public Bookmark 69

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    They had already seen the Halo’s power. Its gifts and its limits. But it’s only when Ava’s guttural scream echoes around the open area they find themselves fighting wraith demons in —when they feel, rather than hear, how it tears itself from her throat, some sound almost primal to its core— that they stand to witness the true power of the Halo.

    or, Ava should have glowing golden eyes when unlocking 100% of the halo.

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    30 Nov 2022

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    Faith has never come easy to Beatrice-- it always was a business, a honed skill, a shield against the empty lonely childhood and a grating aching adolescence shunted out of sight by her disappointed parents-- but she’s had faith in Ava since the minute they stood outside of a tomb in the Vatican catacombs and Beatrice realized that she brought the dynamite as a backup to Ava out of habit instead of actual worry. She’d always known Ava would do what they needed, would succeed and find her way through her own fear, and Ava hadn’t disappointed her.

     

     

    Michael came back. Lilith came back. Ava hasn’t disappointed her yet, and she won’t start now.

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    18 Nov 2022