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    Nowadays Felix slept on his left side. He didn’t know if this was his body’s natural inclination, or if it had learned to adjust yet again. He’d traded in tents and hillsides for the large brute of a man lying behind him, petting his hair.

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    A collection of Felix, Sylvain, and the living that comes after all the dying.

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    24 Sep 2024

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    When he had finally ridden to Fraldarius to take his place as Duke, he had not expected this, of all things, to be unbearable. The work, yes, and the half-starving people sick of war. The rationing and the cold and the new king’s letters signed, Your friend. Felix’s swords abandoned without purpose.
    Not this: going through his father’s things and finding not secrets, but signposts of a life. Candy in the pockets of a woolen coat. A razor by the washbasin. A smoking joint confiscated and abandoned in a drawer.
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    Felix and Sylvain talk about the dead.

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    24 Sep 2024

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    Before the battle at Myrddin, Sylvain had tightened the saddle of his mare and looked at Felix, and he thought, if we both get through this day alive, I’ll tell him.
    Now, the black blood was almost to his knee. All Sylvain could hear was the deep, blue silence of the forest. He understood that the silence was the result of his body shutting out all external stimuli to focus on pumping poison through his veins. He understood that it made him very bad at keeping watch.
    He made himself think it: only one of them would live.
    Still the words wouldn’t come.
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    Cut off from help, deep in enemy territory, Sylvain and Felix navigate the realities of injury and make difficult choices.

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    24 Sep 2024

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    “We live in a blue planet that circles around a ball of fire next to a moon that moves the sea, and you don’t believe in miracles?”

    After an academic career at MIT and Oxford, Yuuri Katsuki eschews job offers at places like NASA and CERN to go work at the Very Large Array in what Phichit Chulanont lovingly calls The Actual Middle of Nowhere, New Mexico, monitoring radio frequencies from light-years away. He's loved the stars for as long as he can remember, and the universe feels so big sometimes that Yuuri is sure it would be a cruel mistake for humans to be all alone.

    Enter the latest scientist to join the staff of the VLA, enigmatic Russian genius Victor Nikiforov, around whom Yuuri’s entire universe seems to bend to make room, and the strange, recurring dreams Yuuri keeps having, where something like love carries him across the stars.

    Does love travel faster than light? Do souls?

    “The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.”

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    29 Jul 2024

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    You can’t speak just yet to whether time—and age? experience? not that war or rulership have given you much of the latter, at least in the area of gardening—has made your thumbs any less brown, but the house in the Oghma Mountains is surrounded by so many growing things it hardly seems to matter. It sits at the edge of a forest, on the gentle lower slopes, and the people in the nearest town had all smiled to speak of it when they pointed the way for Hubert, the day you arrived. A number of them were old enough to remember what it had been like, years ago, in the warm and golden before, and to insist that it had not changed in the ways that mattered. It was still full of light. The air still smelled green.

    In which Edelgard keeps a garden, Hubert learns to fly, and those they leave behind refuse to be left behind.

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    05 Jul 2024