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  1. Rec 57

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    A wedding brings Kaveh back to Sumeru City. Al-Haitham’s only wish is for him to stay.

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  2. Rec 30

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    The curse of Al-Ahmar’s star affects not the child born under it, but those that surround them.

    - An AU in which Alhaitham is born beneath an unlucky star, and he ponders what that may or may not mean for him.

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  3. Rec 30

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    Kaveh wakes early, as the very first sunlight creeps through the bedroom curtains and falls across his face. It’s quiet and still, and the half of the bed next to him is cool and neatly made, as it has been for the last so-many weeks. It is the morning of the Sabzeruz—the first to be celebrated in five hundred years, Sumeru’s belated thanksgiving to its reinstated patron goddess.

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  4. Rec 28

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    Would he ever have a love like that? A love that drives you to insanity?

    He looks at Kaveh, silhouetted against the stained glass window outside the Akademiya. Yes, he thinks. He would claw his heart out with his own hands for this man. He would serve it with chelow and smile as Kaveh sinks his teeth in. The pain is fine if it’s him. The pain is good if it’s him.

    Awash in the pale blue light, he is unfathomably beautiful, so beautiful as to be an illusion. A trick of the last remaining Moon Sister. But then Alhaitham touches his shoulder (warm, solid, real), and Kaveh turns to him once more. He doesn’t smile, but he doesn’t frown, either.

    Soulmates share matching marks, a gift given by the gods to those who are chosen for one another, but Alhaitham doesn’t believe in them, and Kaveh doesn’t have one.

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  5. Rec 21

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    “I was offered a position at the Akademiya.”

    You already know—you approved the offer letter. “Lecturer?”

    “No, professor. Somehow they’re starting me at associate. I don’t have the experience, but…”

    He doesn’t have to say it out loud. His portfolio speaks for itself. They aren’t going to make the Light of Kshahrewar jump through hoops for his own office the way they do for fresh-faced all-but-dissertation 20-somethings.

    “That’s excellent. Congratulations. You’re going to be exactly what Kshahrewar needs right now.”

    Kaveh doesn’t accept the praise. “There’s a woman in Spantamad who’s starting her sabbatical soon,” he says instead of thank you.

    This, too, you already knew. You stamped Zinat’s leave form; she told you she was going to Inazuma to study some kind of dangerous contamination on one of the islands. But what does Kaveh have to do with her?

    “I’ve arranged to rent from her.”

    Now this—this takes you by surprise. “Oh” is all you manage to say.

    If you love him, let him go. If he comes back to you, he’ll be yours forever.

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