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    An odd flower falls out from the envelope when Flins turns it in his hands. Small seeds with tiny feathered tufts scatter across the pages of the file he had been reading.

    Are all Ratniki as mysterious as you?

    Flins rereads these words in Varka's near-incomprehensible scribble. He hears them in Varka's voice. He sees Varka's smile. Feeling his mouth curl upwards in spite of himself, Flins wonders when Varka will tire of asking questions to which he already knows the answers.

    After a run-in with Flins at the lighthouse, Varka suggests they write letters to each other to stay in touch. Their friendship grows into something much larger than either of them had initially imagined.

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    23 Sep 2025

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    “I am unnatural.” And what an odd thing to say at the time, sitting behind his desk this was one of the few conversational words that were spoken to him, “I find myself unnatural and have thereby become unnatural. It’s all his fault anyway. Even if the ice cracks and falls to the darkness that is the Abyss, I will be here. Beside him. Because he keeps me around him. Until he bores of me, he is my source, as I am his. And that is our contract.”

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    21 Sep 2025

  3. Public Bookmark 24

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    What is the difference between an Archon and man?

    Deities feel the pain of their past mistakes dogging every footstep, but unlike the mortal man who eventually gets to set down his shadow and walk into that space beyond life which we can only guess at, a god simply has to keep trudging on as the weight on their shoulders grows ever-heavier.

    Beware the Breeze and Earth. Beware the surviving Victors. They walk amongst mortals. Neither of them will ever be one.

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    14 Sep 2025

  4. Public Bookmark 35

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    “I used to think myself above these things.”

    Wriothesley looks up from his thermos. “These things?”

    “Food. Rest. Company. The needs of the body. Of the heart.” A pause. “Desire.”

    Wriothesley’s expression stills.

    Not startled. Not mocking.

    Just open.

    “And now?” he asks, after a breath.

    Neuvillette folds his hands in his lap. His nails are too neatly trimmed. His sleeves immaculate. His posture immaculate. He does not know how to be not immaculate.

    “I am learning,” he says softly, “that to be above something is not the same as to be free from it.”

    Or, Neuvillette forgets to eat, and Wriothesley remembers for him.

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    07 Sep 2025

  5. Public Bookmark 26

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    Five times Wriothesley kissed Neuvillette and didn’t ask for anything in return (involving a near-frozen Iudex, a god who forgot how to rest, a wrist trembling beneath a verdict, a moment held in lamplight, and a garden where nothing hurt). And one time Neuvillette kissed him like an offering finally accepted.

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    08 Aug 2025