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  1. Public Bookmark 23

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    In the silence of the Night Cemetery, a fae noble waits out eternity alone. He tells himself he's content with memories and moonlight. Then Illuga arrives with warm food and worried eyes, and the Solitary Lark discovers that some stories deserve a second ending.

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    05 Mar 2026

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    Illuga has two modes: working until he collapses, and feeling guilty about not working enough to collapse. He’s spent a lot of years perfecting those and running from his demons. He was gonna do that until the day he died and everything was gonna be fine. Really.

    Until the gods threw a wrench into his plans.

    Now, he needs a few new modes: resting (nightmarish), being taken care of (actual hell), and maybe not running from himself (absolutely unacceptable).

    Flins thinks this will be good for him. Illuga thinks Flins is lucky he’s cute, because this is all his damn fault.

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    27 Feb 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 48

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    "What do you think it is to be human?” Flins asks, slow and deliberate, fingers tracing the rim of his drink. 

    “To be human is to feel,” Illuga says, definitively. “To be human is to hurt, to bleed, to cry. And then wake up the next day and do it again. Wake up a thousand times and do it again, knowing that the pain doesn’t stop.”

    Flins’ gaze is piercing. “Why?”

    “Because if we can still feel pain, we can still feel joy.”

    Illuga thinks he knows what it means to be human. He has a few things to learn.

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    27 Feb 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 49

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    “What the hell did I drink?”

    “Firewater. You asked me what I was drinking, and then decided you were going to join me.”

    Oh. That makes sense.

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    26 Feb 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 96

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    Columbina tilts her head. “Has it had any physical effects? Please indulge my lack of sight.”

    Illuga frowns. “I don’t have any scars from the Hunter now, if that’s what you mean,” he says. “It’s as if I’d never been attacked in the first place.”

    Aether’s hand hesitantly lands on Illuga’s shoulder. “I didn’t want to stress you out more until we could talk to Columbina, but now that we’re here, you should probably look at your reflection,” he says quietly, carefully.

    His body stiffens in an instant, and that feeling of wrong, wrong, wrong hits him again full force. He steps out from under Aether’s touch and staggers on autopilot toward the closest pool of water. Illuga crouches down at the edge, pushing his fingers into his hair for some sort of grounding as he leans forward, lantern knocking against his thigh. He catches sight of his reflection, and his world tilts on its axis.

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    Illuga comes back from the dead more than human. All he can think about as he gets used to his new not fae, not human normal is Flins—and maybe how much his newfound state and Flins' habits have in common.

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    25 Feb 2026