11 Bookmarks by henerich

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  1. Public Bookmark 7

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    Nebakov loomed in the distance. Ištván was there, watching.

    Erik could not see him from the road, but he knew, all the same. As he drew closer, he caught glimpses of a dark shape moving by the palisades. It followed Erik up the hill, around the bend, and all the way to the stables. Comfort spread under Erik's armor like blood, sticky and hot.

    A glimpse of Erik and Ištván in Nebakov.

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    23 Mar 2026

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  2. Public Bookmark 8

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    “If Sigismund wanted me,” Erik says, his voice betraying how awake he is. “Would you let him take me?”

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    12 Feb 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 19

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    "What is the most important thing in a fight?" Istvan asked.

    It was not pure strength, Erik knew. There was a man in Istvan's company, slender and hardly taller than Erik, who was so quick with a shortsword that he always outlasted heavily armored men in the training yard. Not skill, either. It didn't matter how often a man practiced or what he knew about the sword if his opponent was stronger, quicker, didn't have the sun in his eyes, had slipped into his quarters in the night, had planned ahead with poisons or reinforcements—

    Well, there was more, but Erik realized that Istvan didn't necessarily mean a physical fight. Conversations were fights. Istvan said fighting with words was more fun than swords, because the field changed constantly. (Though Erik had seen him kill men with a longsword, and Istvan seemed just as pleased doing that.) Strength mattered in those fights, too, because a man could intimidate with his height and threaten with just a look.

    The answer came to him. Erik sat up straighter.

    "Advantage," he said.

    Erik learns how to swim, how to wield a sword, and what kind of man he wants to be.

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    03 Jan 2026

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    Aching

  4. Public Bookmark 4

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    Modern AU fem!isterik

    Femstvan picks up a stray in an alley and gets more than she realized she wanted.

    For Isterik Week 25, Day 1: Beginnings

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    01 Oct 2025

  5. Public Bookmark 42

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    A smudged figure waits in the corner of Erik's eye. Istvan is dressed in black, covered from head to toe with armored limbs and a heavy doublet, but he doesn't reek the way Erik does in the heat. If anything, he smells like nights in camp. Like woodsmoke and a chilly breeze. The comfortable scent of bodies in the same place for too long.

    Istvan buys Erik a gift.

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    12 Aug 2025

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    A beautiful War-torn Dogs remix / spiritual sequel. Please read!

  6. Public Bookmark 60

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    "I never thought this would happen, and I was afraid I couldn’t hold myself back around you if I let thoughts of you fill my head,” Henry said. “I was happy just being your friend.”

    (KCD2. Hans and Henry say goodbye at Suchdol.)

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    05 Aug 2025

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  7. Public Bookmark 64

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    “Killing you would be quick,” Erik said. “He would heal from that wound. I want to return you to him changed.”

    (Post KCD2. Erik captures Hans.)

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    04 Aug 2025

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    Game-changing

  8. Public Bookmark 29

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    After its all over, Henry starts to dream. Not the usual nightmares, but strangely realistic dreams where he watches Istvan and Erik's life together. And even though they should be just dreams, why does it feel like he's being slowly dragged to Hell with them?

    Erik and Istvan through Henry's eyes.

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    03 Aug 2025

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    Sweet, painful vignettes

  9. Public Bookmark *

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    "Are you cold?" Henry asked.

    Without armor, in hose and gambeson, he was still an imposing figure: tall and broad, hands stained with dirt and blood, jaw stubbornly stiff. His bare feet were a shock of white in the dirt. He held his helm with both hands, embracing the metal into his belly. His hair was damp with sweat. There was another string of bruises on his throat, shaped like two wide thumbs.

    Hans looked away. The tunic around Henry's knee had darkened. Blood was trickling into the dirt.

    Hans kills a man, prepares for a wedding, and tries to do at least one thing right.

    (Or: five times Hans and Henry didn't share a bed, and one time they did.)

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    13 Jul 2025

  10. Public Bookmark 24

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    “I’ve never had any hope for a good king, or a fair war. Or for the sun to shine each morning. Or for good harvests. I have hope in you. Every day. And we fight in these battles for your future. Tell me you understand.”

    “I understand.”

     

    The war gives Erik bloody cuts and sweaty sore muscles, stinging eyes, bruises the color of leather. Istvan gives him armor of pure white.

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    11 Jul 2025

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    one of my favorites

  11. Public Bookmark *

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    Henry playfully wrestles him to the ground, and their laughter shakes the trees. This is what life ought to be: easy and sweet and without any past or future. The rest of the world can hang for all Hans cares; all he wants is to make Henry laugh, and to turn him every shade of red possible.

    “Shut up or I'll fill you up,” Henry threatens. “I’ll get a strong son on you.”

    Something flutters in Hans’s chest. “I'm not a fucking maid, Henry.” He struggles a little more, just for show, and Henry pins his hands above his head.

    “Could be,” Henry counters, grinning. “My maid, my girl, the way you take me.”

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    In which Henry helps Hans forget about his upcoming nuptials, a wedding night is shared, and Hans yearns to become something other than what he is.

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    11 Jul 2025

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