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  1. Public Bookmark 9

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    Just a fortnight of sitting in on Almyran court had Cyril feeling like he’d been thoroughly stretched through a weaving loom. It was why Claude seemed so otherworldly; he could come out of an hours-long congressional council still enthusiastic for the next. In comparison, Cyril had spent the last meeting internally critiquing a passing servant’s bookshelf organization technique.

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    The one where Cyril is gifted a Wyvern egg.

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    09 Mar 2023

  2. Public Bookmark *

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    “Alright, boy. So who are you really?”

    Claude tilted his head, a whisper of a smile on his face, as though he’d just missed a joke that everyone else was laughing at. “Come again?”

    Judith didn’t bother repeating herself. He’d heard her. “It’s a clever idea,” she continued. “You see the old man needs an heir. So you waltz in, a charming, well-spoken nobody, and you tell him you’re the one. It wouldn’t work on Oswald if he were younger, but he’s gotten sentimental in his old age, and more than a little desperate, so of course he wants to believe you."

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    Judith is suspicious of the new Riegan heir.

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    08 Apr 2022

  3. Rec 9

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    The dough kneaded soft under Nader’s calloused fingers. He rolled his knuckles over, flour powdering his wrists, aware of the little one watching him work with bright eyes.

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    20 Jan 2022

  4. Public Bookmark 34

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    “Too true. Shouldn’t you be the one sorting out the laws of three formerly independent lands? All this work I’ve done for you; it would be considerate.”

    “Alas,” she says, leaning back further, crossing her legs at the knee. “I have every intention of being a figurehead.”

     

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    A history of the final days of the Leicester Alliance.

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    27 Mar 2021

  5. Public Bookmark 10

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    Claude and Cyril connect over caring for an elderly wyvern, an errand that both of them find meaning in. Years later, as Cyril prepares to make a difficult choice, he thinks back to just that moment.

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    27 Jul 2020