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“You know,” Emily hesitated, “you can say whatever you need to. Tomorrow I may not matter to you so what do you have to lose?”
Spoiler alert....she does matter. In more ways than one.
Or the stranger JJ met the night before at a bar shows up in her superior's office primed and ready to not only fill the empty spot on the team, but fill an incredibly large void in JJ's life.
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16 Jan 2026
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Carol and Zosia Meet before the joining AU
Carol is in Berlin for a writing residency, she becomes friends with a group of her residency mates who introduce her to Zosia, a young ex-pat who lives with more confidence than Carol has even been able to muster.
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13 Jan 2026
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Even now, days later, she hears the buzzing. The frequency of the hive. When Zosia was joined, her head was full to the brim. It was a feeling larger than self, it couldn’t be described really. Now, she’s empty and the empty space in her head would vibrate, as if calling out for mercy. Calling for rescue from the hive. And Zosia would try to push the sound away.
or; Zosia gets unmerged/unhived and has to comes to terms with it.
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13 Jan 2026
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“I didn’t keep most of the memories. Other people’s memories. I get flashes of big things, births, deaths. Except about you.”
Carol feels the confusion slip onto her face. Nervousness creeps up her spine again. “Me?”
“I know everything that anybody has ever thought about you, Carol. Every memory. Every feeling. Helen. Your ex-girlfriends. Your dentist. It’s like I have a Carol encyclopedia in my head.”
Carol had thought that she was done experiencing fresh horrors. What a nightmare it is to realize that she is not. “Oh, god.” She says.
“Oh, god,” Zosia agrees.
After they manage to break Zosia free of the hive, Zosia and Carol try to navigate the field of landmines that is their relationship.
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08 Jan 2026
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Carol Sturka is desperate enough to ask her secretary, Zosia, to pretend to be her girlfriend at a charity gala, just to make her ex-wife jealous.
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17 Dec 2025