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    When Maelle brings Gustave back, there is a look in his eyes. Mutable and poised. Verso thinks he understands, but he underestimates it. And when he is lured into a darkened alleyway outside the central square, he expects anything but a gun to his head.

    Verso discovers that Gustave was painted with some of Julie's memories, and he is forced to confront every decision he has ever made in the name of the Dessendre family.

    On the cusp of summer, an expedition begins.

    An epilogue to Maelle's ending.

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    16 Nov 2025

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    Maelle looks at the mirror shards scattered across the floor, a disarray of sharp and jagged pieces that can never be put back together again. "I know you’re not him..." she admits in a shaky whisper. Her tear-filled eyes find Verso, the blues and greys of paint starting to unravel the edges of them, mocking him. "But you deserve to be happy,” she says. We deserve to be happy, she means.

    “I deserve to be myself,” Verso says, and it sounds like a plea more than anything else. The skin around his left eye aches, as if it’s waiting for his scar’s return.

    Maelle sighs before she sweeps her hand through the air, calling for her rapier. It appears in a flutter of gold petals, glimmering in the dim light of the bathroom. Her eyes are cast in shadow and her disappointed smile is somewhat crooked. "Alright. Let's try again."

    or: Maelle wants a happy end for everyone she cares about, and she will keep trying until even Verso gets it right.

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    13 Nov 2025

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    “Well,” Maelle asks brightly, “what did you think?”

    The pianist seemed familiar, somehow, though he is quite certain they’d never actually met before.

    “His music was very beautiful,” is what Gustave eventually settles on, “but he seemed - a little sad. Didn’t he?” 

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    11 Nov 2025

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    Prowl has been exiled from court and ordered to solve the mystery of the Rust Sea, which has been missing from the surface of Cybertron for longer than he's been alive.

    Jazz is drowning on dry land on the other side of the world.

    Once upon a time, before Jazz was born, the Rust Sea covered a swathe of Cybertron bigger than the territory of any city-state except Iacon. The sea had been more powerful than any engine besides the one at the heart of the planet itself, big enough to swallow a metrotitan in its depths, the birthplace of storms.

    Thing is, none of that was Jazz. He doesn’t remember those days, before he was himself, except in his dreams.

    And his dreams are terrifying.

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    03 Nov 2025

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    Scandinavia, 795 AD

    At the advent of the Viking Age, the lone heir to the throne of a minor Gaelic kingdom falls victim to a Norse raid and is brought to Norway. Amidst a desperate fight for survival in a foreign land, a crisis of faith and bound by duty to the fate of his homeland, he’s forced to confront the blight he was groomed to hide for a lifetime.

    Because Fáelán, the blessed miracle of his bloodline and supposed salvation and peace-bringer, isn't what he pretends to be.

    He is no Alpha.

    He's Omega.

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    21 Oct 2025