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  1. Rec 39

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    For a long time- a minute, perhaps, though that ought not to be a long time by either of their standards- Dan Heng does not speak. His gaze searches the horizon. Blade does not know what for. Perhaps, for a Nameless, there is meaning in the searching itself.

    When he finds his words, they are painstakingly direct. Blade turns at the sound of his voice, but Dan Heng remains staring into the distance as he speaks. "I wish… we had learned sooner that we didn't have to be enemies."

    I feel the same, Blade cannot say. "There was never-"

    "I know," Dan Heng says, too quickly. His voice softens again, as if he'd caught himself off-guard, too. "I just wish we had, at the very least, been afforded the opportunity."

    or: Blade in the aftermath of the battle with Fulwish

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    “Three sessions.” Khaslana says at least, with his empty doll eyes under the shadow of the trees, he looks more like a ghost than ever. “I give you three sessions. If you don’t get to paint something I like, I leave.”

    “Hm, you really think I can’t.”

    “I know you can’t.”

    How terribly arrogant. Mydei grins, wild and prideful, heart thumping with what might be either adrenaline or anger. “Three sessions.” He agrees.

    They say whoever attempts to make a muse out of Khaslana goes mad. Mydei thinks that’s fine. He wants less of a muse than he likes a challenge. Somewhere along the way, he falls in love.

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    20 Feb 2026

  3. Rec 49

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    “You heal fast,” Flins observes, feeling his heartbeat jog a little faster under his palm. “Perhaps youth is good for only that.” 

    “I’m not that young anymore,” Illuga says wearily, placing his hand over Flins’. “Do you like younger men, Sir Flins? Is that why you enjoy teasing me?”

    “Ah, Master Illuga, ‘tis a bold claim to assume that I would not like you either way.” He bats a suggestive eye at him, and Illuga cracks into a smile - the first one this whole week. ”There you go.”

     

    or; illuga is injured from an expedition. flins is there to help him heal

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    26 Jan 2026

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    “I didn’t do anything wrong, did I?”

    “You didn’t,” Mydei says, his gaze averting from Phainon. He takes a deep breath, steeling himself. “You did nothing wrong, Phainon.”

    “Then… what do we need to talk about?” He watches Phainon take a hesitant step forward. Mydei curses, frustrated, and jerks his head up.

    “I think we should take a break.”

    (These days, Mydei wonders if he's been living under the shadow of his past self all this time.)

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  5. Rec 75

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    It arrived at the dead of night. It was a simple text, one that he could decipher without Silver Wolf’s help, for it contained no images, no misspellings. It was simple, straight and to the point, composed of nothing but four words: tomorrow, come hunt me.

    Perhaps, after whatever happened to him in those two months of silence, he had found the courage to stop running – to face Blade, even when things did not go well. To roll the carpet and look underneath. Perhaps he simply did not know what he was asking for.

    Whatever the reason behind such a text might have been, Blade did not know, nor did he care; all that mattered was the invitation and the fact he couldn’t refuse it. Wouldn’t refuse it.

    Or: After the chaos of Amphoreus, Himeko decides it's time for the Astral Express crew to take a day off - by going on a joint vacation with the Stellaron Hunters! feat Wine Aunt Welt, Renheng's peculiar mating rituals, Dan Heng being jealous of, arguably, himself (Dan Feng), Stelle and Silver Wolf's gacha game discussions, a Robin concert...oh, and Dan Heng and Blade get stuck in an elevator for three hours and have to actually talk to each other.

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