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    Later, when he stumbles across Felix in the alley between the dorms and the sauna, crouched low to the ground and stroking a gray-striped cat, Sylvain still can’t find it in himself to be mad, mostly because he’s too busy trying to convince his heart to keep beating.

    It’s just Felix, he tells himself. It’s just a cat. Two things he sees every damn day, and yet, when you put them together like this, the sight is lethal enough to kill him on the fucking spot.

    Sylvain is a liar. Felix sees through him.

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    11 Jul 2021

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    Sylvain smiles and kisses the back of his hand, the indent on his fourth finger where the Fraldarius signet ring rests during state meetings. “I am but your humble servant. The extension of your righteous arm. Where you point me, I go, and do battle in your name. Even if it’s the bloodless kind.”

    “So dramatic,” Felix mutters, but there’s a telling scrape of pink across his cheekbones nonetheless. “Return to me whole. That’s all I ask.”

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    Sylvain heads north to make peace with the Sreng, and leaves something behind that he and his husband did not expect.

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    The midwife lets Sylvain hold his daughter thirty-five minutes after she’s born. She’s red as a plum, with a scrunchy, smushy face like the inside of an elbow, swaddled in a blanket eight generations old.

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    01 Mar 2021

  4. Public Bookmark 82

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    “Should’ve known you’d find me,” Sylvain says, closing his eyes again. There’s a strain of exhaustion in his voice, nearly hidden behind the lingering rasp from Felix doesn’t want to know what. He huffs a laugh. “You always did take your promises so seriously.”

    Felix doesn’t let himself think, did you not want me to find you? He doesn’t let himself think, were they not serious, to you?

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    10 Aug 2020

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    “What about—hmm, oh, that guy!” Sylvain gestures towards a well-built brunet headed in the general direction of the training grounds. “He’s all... fight-y. Probably trains a lot. That’s—is that a turn on for you?”

    Okay, yeah, maybe it is, but the mere thought of discussing his ‘turn ons’ with Sylvain (who is one of them) makes Felix want to fling himself into the pond.

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    Fortunately for exactly no one, Sylvain’s new pet project is finding Felix a date.

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    08 Aug 2020