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    “What do you know about it,” asked Ilya. He looked up toward the night sky, which was starless under the bright street lamps. “The curse, I mean. What did she tell you?”

    “So you do know about it,” said Fabian. Ilya turned back to look at him. 

    “A bit,” said Ilya. He took another deep drag of his cigarette. “It took my mother. In a way.”

    “I’m so sorry,” said Fabian. He kicked his boot into the wall. “My friend mentioned it was a bloodline thing.”

    “Yes,” said Ilya. “Rarer for men to have it, but. Here I am.”

    Irina was a Siren. Ilya has always been cursed to be just like her.

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    20 Apr 2026

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    Behind him a stall opened, Ilya’s gaze flicked up from his phone to the mirror, catching as two men stumbled out of the cramped space. The first balked when he saw Ilya and scurried away but the second… fuck. The second was fucking Sasha. Ilya vaguely remembered Svetlana mentioning that Sasha was back in town and wanted to catch up, vaguely remembered shrugging, non-committal, when she’d asked if he was interested in seeing their old friend.

    The ‘friendship’ he had with Sasha had not been like what Svetlana had. Their relationship had been secret, frantic sexual encounters in storage closets at ice rinks and in bedrooms when their fathers weren’t home. The kind of sex that was fine-but never more than just fine. Ilya had since had sex that was great, mind-blowing, life-affirming. Sex that was devastating and romantic and so intimate he’d felt cracked open. What he’d had with Sasha had been teenage experimentation and intimacy borne of assured mutual destruction.

    Or: Ilya has decided to return to Russia for a week before meeting Shane at the cottage for the summer. He hopes to salvage the relics of his past, say goodbye to his mother's grave, and find closure before starting his life in Ottawa.

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    14 Apr 2026

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    Rozanov: i added hollander

    or, Shane's experience in the Ottawa Centaurs group chat. He learns quickly that it is nothing like Montreal.

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    09 Apr 2026

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    Hail Mary Counter @hailmarytracker · 12 hrs
    Days since last contact with Hail Mary: 9,716
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    It's been nearly 27 years since the Hail Mary departed. When the ISS detects a signal in the far off solar system, hope begins to grow, even as mysteries start to unravel and the universe becomes a little smaller.

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    07 Apr 2026

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    While trying to write to his friend studying abroad in Moscow, Shane Hollander accidentally reaches Ilya Rozanov.

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    04 Apr 2026