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  1. Public Bookmark 53

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    Five weeks of losing at poker to Ghost. Five increasingly suspicious ‘favors.’ One Scottish demolitions expert who’s terrible at cards but excellent at denial. Ghost knows exactly what he’s doing. So does everyone else on base.

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    11 Jan 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 9

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    It’s last orders in Chicago. Urban ops are tough on the knees, but it beats dying in the desert—not that Simon would ever let Johnny go first or die thirsty.

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    08 Jan 2026

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    Soap is physically affectionate by nature.

    Ghost is not.

    Johnny might just be rubbing off on him though.

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    07 Jan 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 15

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    “I don’t understand,” Kaveh says, pacing again, running a hand through his hair with a kind of wounded artistry that makes Alhaitham’s eyelid twitch. “You read all the same texts I did. You studied the same traditions. You know what the Sophists meant. You know about the agora. The gift economy. You know rhetoric isn’t just about manipulation—it’s about response. About risk.”

    “I’m aware,” Alhaitham says. “I simply disagree.”

    “With—what? The entire premise of interpersonal communication?”

    “With the fetishization of indeterminacy,” Alhaitham says, adjusting his gloves. “With the idea that language must be excessive, emotional, endless. That clarity is somehow oppressive. That restraint is dishonesty. That the only ‘authentic’ utterance is the one that bleeds.”

    “Oh,” Kaveh breathes, like he’s just been stabbed with a particularly pretentious dagger. “Oh, so now you’re anti-poetry.”

    “I’m anti-delusion.”

    “And yet you look in the mirror every morning.”

    Or, how two men weaponize rhetorical praxis to avoid admitting they care.

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    19 Nov 2025

  5. Public Bookmark 6

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    Medrash’s crimson eyes flickered back down to the porridge. “I haven’t noticed the kobold scaring anybody away,” he continued, smirking. “Rather the opposite. She seems to be well-liked.”

    “She?” Aradin scoffed. “It’s a woman?”

    Medrash just gave him an even wider and toothier smirk and Aradin wished he had something to throw at him besides a rag soaked in armor polish.

    "Her name’s Tav,” he said, “in case you wanted to know.”
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    Aradin Beno meets a woman who's just his type. Except--

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    21 Oct 2025