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  3. Summary

    This collection contains all of the stories I have written on the same timeline, which is based off the Golden Wildfire route (the Golden Deer route of Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes). Unless otherwise noted, stories can be read in any order; they're just organized in publication order.

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    They say this shit to each other at the end of the trip because it’s the end of the trip. They won’t see each other until the next transatlantic flight, until the new year. It doesn’t count and it’s not real. They say it, they do it, maybe Miles will take Phoenix’s hand from Phoenix’s lap and hold it at all the red lights between here and the airport—they can allow themselves these things, when everything’s made up and the points don’t matter.

    They’ve had the sex, Phoenix has taken his shower, maybe Miles will get soppy and do the thing with the hand in the car but—now they’re done. Until next time.

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    Phoenix spends some time in Berlin.

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    20 Feb 2025

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    the hyperspecific experience of "oh ive also had a crazy half-dissociated conversation in front of those paintings before"

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    Even after he's found guilty again, and Apollo knows he's securely in jail, it still feels like Kristoph is everywhere. When another case emerges that's connected to him, Apollo is half-convinced this is a nightmare he can't wake up from. Still, he has to win this case and get rid of this darkness once and for all- for his sake, and for Klavier's.

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    The snowfall is slow and steady today, perpetual in the way that it clings to the branches, the logs, and the grass. White plaster blankets the matted mess of the forest in sheets. Dimitri has led them off the beaten path into the open maw of the Gautier woods, and while this is a moment he’ll turn over in his palm as he listens to the call of war beat its hooves on a rusted field in seventeen years’ time, for now he trusts himself enough to lead his friends through the mess, even if he’d rather not. He concentrates on Sylvain’s humming, which matches the pace at which their boots crunch the snow, and feels a little less bad for it. He doesn’t enjoy telling his friends what to do.
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    Dimitri leads his friends to a ravine.

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    He is still alive, after all. For as much as he seems to treat himself with all the care that he might offer a corpse, he must, to some degree, take pains to keep himself breathing.

     

    Mercedes tries to care for Dimitri. He does not let her – until he does.

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    Felix is flushing, obvious even in the dim light. “Promise me you’ll tell me when you feel you’ll lose your path. When those things you call the dead are overwhelming you, you can…come to me.”

    It feels as if the air has been sucked out of his lungs. “Felix….”

    Felix’s jaw sets. “Promise me,” he says, nearly stern.

    Dimitri can work with stubborn Felix. “Shall I swear it to you? Take an oath?”

    Felix doesn’t fluster, though. “Yes,” he says. “Swear it to me.”

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