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  1. Public Bookmark 36

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    “Why can’t you tell me your name?”
    “I’ve already said.”
    “Explain it another way.”
    “A name...is a promise. My father made such a promise. It...killed my mother. I…I don’t want to swear an oath to someone who will be more endangered by it than I will."
    “Well then what should I call you?”
    “I don’t know. Whatever you’d like.”
    “You’re giving me an awful lot of leeway.”
    “I didn’t mean to take the choice of where you stayed away from you. The least I can do is offer another choice in its place.”

     

    Ariadne recalls what happened after Theseus callously abandoned her on an island, utterly alone. Despairing, she sees only one course of action ahead of her...fortunately, a stranger interupts before she can do anything rash.
    Over time, Ariadne begins to piece herself - once thought irrevocably shattered - back together with the help of the kindly, mysterious stranger who seems perfectly happy to provide her whatever they can.
    Everything, that is, except their name.

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    23 May 2025

  2. Public Bookmark 37

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    There’s a godling visiting her labyrinth.

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    23 May 2025

  3. Public Bookmark 70

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    A priest's role is one of guidance, discipline, devotion, and absolution—a shepherd tending to his flock, a servant of God who stands as an intermediary between the sinner and salvation.

    But what happens when that priest is also the instrument of suffering? When his hands, meant for blessing, become the hands that punish, that test, that push a soul to its limits before granting the mercy of release?

    And what happens when another man—a fellow priest, a scholar of faith—kneels not before God, but before him?

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    07 Mar 2025

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    Jayce Talis needs to get out of New York. His publisher calls it a “creative retreat,” but Jayce knows better. His work is slipping, the city feels too loud, too suffocating. So he drives—somewhere quieter, somewhere slower. He rents a room in a small town that barely exists on a map, tells himself it’s just for the summer.

    He isn’t looking for a muse.

    But then there’s his new landlord—Viktor.

    Sharp-eyed, sharp-tongued, cigarette in hand. Unbothered by the heat, unimpressed by Jayce, unreadable in a way that makes Jayce want to study him a little too long.

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    27 Feb 2025

  5. Public Bookmark 13

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    “A little egotistical, don’t you think?” Viktor asks.

    Jayce blinks, “what?”

    “To like sunflowers,” he clarifies. They stand tall, big with full petals, facing various directions. Some of the leaves burst out from the top of the vase, cradling the plump, golden petals. Jayce quirks his head with a puzzled expression, and Viktor breaks himself out of his thoughts to blink slowly at him.

    “Nevermind,” he says simply, turning away to continue to the kitchen. The kettle whistles. “Besides,” Viktor continues. He tells himself to stop, to shut up, and to kick Jayce out of his apartment. “The red ones grow in the Undercity. My father and I would pick them for my mother. They were the color of her eyes.”

    He reaches to unplug the kettle from the outlet. He was always weak. He feels the Arcane dig it’s fingers into the base of his head.

    “They’re the color of your eyes too.”

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    18 Feb 2025