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  1. Public Bookmark 81

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    Aventurine wants to laugh because everything that reminds him of Ratio is so bitter, just like him, and Aeons, what a horrible person he is to hate a man like Veritas Ratio when he was—is and will ever be, really—the best damn person in Aventurine’s life.

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    Veritas Ratio is dead. Aventurine doesn’t know what to do about it.

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    09 Apr 2024

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    Here was the risk that Ratio had been anticipating. He made a move to enter, but beyond the doorless opening he heard a sound.

    “Dr. Ros.” It was Aventurine. Ratio suppressed a groan. How could he be so stupid? Didn’t he know that this room was what Eosphoros-I was famous for? He prepared to stride inside and drag whoever was there out to a proper meeting room—

    —before he stopped short at the sight of himself.

    On a distant planet slated for IPC acquisition, there exists a room designed to extract one’s deepest desires.

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    28 Mar 2024

  3. Public Bookmark 86

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    "So that you know, only idiots won't notice that it was all fake,” Ratio continued after a long minute of silence. “It's even easier to see through with how bad your acting skills are."

    In which Aventurine was confident that he was good at faking things (especially himself), only to be surprised by how easily Ratio saw through his act.

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    28 Feb 2024

  4. Public Bookmark 85

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    An Archiviste’s powers were deadly. Not just to whom they sucked the blood of, but to the bearers as well.

    Noe and Vanitas weren’t too different after all, both cursed with the name of their clans. Every since he'd seen Miss Amelia's and Mikhails' memories, Noe's psyche had begun to degrade, his thoughts and identity swirling together with the memories he'd dove through. He'd been warned about the drawbacks of his family's powers, yet his desire to help pushed him forward.

    But what happens when he's forced to drink from Vanitas, suffer through a lifetime of pain in minutes? Losing his grip on sanity and even sense of self, Vanitas must either save him or let Noe drown in the consequences of his powers.

    Time is slipping through the hourglass.

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    11 Mar 2023

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    Xiangling scales entire mountains to satisfy the palettes of her two pickiest customers.

    (Or, two men who are emotionally stunted by their own immortality inadvertantly turn an overly enthusiastic chef into their messenger pigeon.)

    [Post 1.1 addendum added: Xiao remembers how to live.]

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    17 Nov 2020

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