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  1. Public Bookmark 12

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    He knows how her skin feels, under his fingers. Or rather he is nearly certain he knows how her skin feels, and the ‘nearly’ of it is driving him to a precarious tap dance on the frayed edge of his sanity.

    aka nikolai and zoya come back from the fold and are just as haunted by every what if and should have been as the rest of us and this time they actually DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT

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    13 Oct 2025

  2. Public Bookmark 14

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    He visits her room again. Zoya thinks at first that she is imagining the creak of the floorboards in the hall, that she has conjured him to break this deadly silence. She can't bear it alone anymore, it presses against her throat and seeps into her chest. She needs something, anything, to shatter it.

     

    But when she invites him in, he enters and there is suddenly no doubt that he is real. Nikolai smiles, both an apology and a question.

     

    Zoya nods and takes her first real breath of the day.

     

    or, after the Fold, it becomes impossible to sleep alone.

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    24 Sep 2025

  3. Public Bookmark 10

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    On the way back home from their excursion with the lost Saints, the only place available to stay to Nikolai and Zoya is a damp old shed - with only one bed.

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    24 Sep 2025

  4. Public Bookmark 6

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    From the moment his cries pierced the air, Nikolai Lantsov was a force of nature.

    He would grow to be a prince, a king, and a demon, all in due turn. He would love and lose and love again, his nation, his friends, his body and his mind. He would wear his duty with grace and serve his first love, Ravka, with a smile.

    But first he was small, boyish, a child clearly out of place in his surroundings. He knew not what it was to bear the weight of a crown on his brow. He could not understand that no great love waited for him, at least not within his marriage.

    He would grow to learn these things, for Nikolai Lantsov was a boy with a future.

    (Or: Nikolai Lantsov will not marry for love. That doesn't mean he won't try.)

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    24 Sep 2025

  5. Public Bookmark *

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    How I'm sure Nikolai and Zoya story ends (or starts) right after Rule of Wolves. Don't read it if you haven't finished the book. It tells a little of how Nikolai courted Zoya, how he finally ends up asking for her hand in marriage, gifting her a home, love and a future to look forward to.

    "What he was telling her now, it had an echo to so many other things he had told her in the past, scattered throughout the moments they had shared. It told the story of how they took care for each other of so long, of their longing, of their strength. How they had found each other at last."

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    17 Sep 2025

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