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  1. Public Bookmark 71

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    Aventurine submits to the mortifying ordeal of being known, finding love and meaning where they weren't supposed to be: amidst the tragedies of a suicide mission and in the eyes of a doctor carved by the rising sun.

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    “You have better things to do.”

    “Not according to the Company, I don’t.” Aventurine smiles and takes off his sunglasses. He reaches over and goes in for the kill, lifting the bottom of Ratio’s chin to meet his eyes. No one ever resists the eyes. “You have no idea how special you are—in that I was sent to retrieve you.”

    Ratio says nothing. He doesn’t really move.

    In which the IPC just can’t seem to convince Veritas Ratio to join the Intelligentsia Guild, so they deploy Aventurine to a tiny university city-state, where he must charm the good doctor into their fold.

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    25 Apr 2025

  3. Public Bookmark 55

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    “… What?” Ratio says, only faltering slightly. His expression is too flustered for his usual levels of reproach, but the silent question is the same. What do you want, Aventurine?

    Aventurine only leans down further, pulling Ratio’s left hand up and abruptly sinking his ring finger into his mouth. Aventurine watches the way Ratio’s brilliant, dawn-bright eyes widen and the way he flinches - but doesn’t pull away - when Aventurine bites down. When he sits back and lets Ratio’s hand go, he watches the silvery string of saliva break. He stares at the ring of teeth marks indented in Ratio’s skin, wrapping possessively around his finger.

    “You,” Aventurine says. The word sits heavy in his stomach, even after it leaves his mouth.

    [Affection, as hunger. Love, as voracity. Lust, as gluttony.]

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    25 Aug 2024

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    People enter Al-Haitham’s life, and then they leave. That is just the way it is: first it was his parents, and then it was his grandmother, and soon enough, it will be Kaveh. He's already set to have a future that other people could only dream of brushing with their fingers.

    There are much greater things than Al-Haitham in Kaveh's destiny.

    Sometimes all it takes is ten years.

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    22 Aug 2024

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    Aventurine isn't smiling. It's strange on him. The way he looks kind of serious, kind of lost. His eyes are unsettling. Veritas has always thought so.

    They look at each other. Aventurine wets his lips. "What are we doing, Veritas?"

    "It's curious," Veritas says, "isn't it?"
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    Experiments sometimes lead to anomalies. Case in point: Aventurine cares about Veritas Ratio.

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    25 May 2024