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    This is probably his fault. There’s no other explanation for how it had all been very normal until a horrible high-pitched sound rang through the air with a blinding flash and he’d found himself sitting somewhere completely different once he’d blinked back to reality.

    As it turns out, wishful thinking tends to make itself dangerous when you have a lucky streak.

    Aventurine and Ratio get body swapped into Kaveh and Alhaitham's bodies. It takes some vulnerability to find a way out.

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    Of the two of them, it was Alhaitham that seemed the ideal alpha—tall, broad-shouldered, his scent one that could overpower a room.

    But it was Kaveh—shorter, slimmer, and slighter—that was stronger.

    Kaveh watched the up-and-down of Alhaitham's larynx as he swallowed, a flash of uncertainty in his sea-green eyes. Kaveh licked his lips. He stepped forward. Alhaitham stepped back. That retreat thrilled Kaveh, so he pushed forward until Alhaitham hit, with a slight stumble, a wall behind him—one of those damnable invisible walls in the desert.

    Kaveh's eyes travelled slowly down, following the lines of his cape to his arm, where his gaze stopped, as if transfixed. "That scar," he said. "It's still there?"

    "... Yes," Alhaitham said.

    Kaveh's rutting. Alhaitham offers to help.

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    22 Apr 2024

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    Applicant Name: Kaveh

    Darshan of Affiliation: Kshahrewar

    Desired Salary: N/A

    Attached CV: [Decoding the Runes and Architectural Philosophy of the Ruins of King Deshret’s Civilization]

    Cover Letter (if applicable):

    Kindly send this appropriately credited document to Akademiya staff so that someone may teach the belligerent Scribe that he cannot blindly pass along my existing work to some newcomer over a topic he destroyed almost a decade ago.

    Delete this.

    (or, Alhaitham posts a familiar job listing. Sumeru wishes he hadn’t.)

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    06 Mar 2024

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    “I’m in love with you. Isn’t that pathetic?” Kaveh murmurs into his ear. He is laughing—harsh and discordant and bitter.

    “I’m in love with you, and I’m dying,” Kaveh rambles. “You’re killing me, Alhaitham.”

    (Kaveh contracts hanahaki. He and Alhaitham deal with the consequences.)

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    18 Jan 2024

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    Just as Kaveh turns away from the orange tree, Alhaitham’s mother blooms into a heartfelt laugh, a soft and melodic sound like the distant ringing of wind chimes. And he realizes that Alhaitham inherited his mother’s laugh, too.

    “You truly love him,” she says in between chuckles. “Deeply and devastatingly so.”

    Kaveh can’t help but burst into laughter himself, “Am I really that obvious?”

    She nods, “You want to marry my son.”

    “I do.”

    Before proposing, Kaveh decides to find a way to meet with Alhaitham's family in order to properly ask for Alhaitham's hand in marriage.

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    12 Dec 2023