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    "Mydei!" Phainon yelps as he flips himself back upright, except it comes out as “Awoo!” instead.

    This is humiliating. Mydei is the absolute last person he’d ever want to see him in this weak little body. Phainon skitters backwards, trying to stay out of reach even as Mydei approaches the table.

    “Hey, watch—” Mydei grabs at him.

    “Awoo?!” SPLASH!

    Phainon is underwater. He flails his limbs, trying to figure out how to swim with this unfamiliar body. Something tightens around his rib cage, and he thrashes harder.

    As Phainon is lifted from the water, he gasps for breath and starts coughing up the liquid he got in his throat, all while kicking his little legs trying to get some kind of foothold. He finds himself pressed against something solid and warm.

    “Shh, shh. It’s okay. Don’t be scared.” Wait, who’s saying that? Mydei? Surely Mydei can’t speak with such a gentle voice… or, even if he could, he wouldn’t in this situation. And what happened to “scared” not existing in the Kremnoan language?!

    Phainon gets turned into a chimera. It leads him to learning more about Mydei.

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    24 Dec 2025

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    Mydei pins him down with firm hands and says, low and urgent, “Listen—the people think you can bear a child.”

    Phainon blinks at him. Mydei waits for him to sputter, to laugh. To refute him and call the very notion ridiculous, and launch into an hours-long exposition on the sheer absurdity of such a statement.

    His husband does none of that.

    (In the wake of Era Nova, peace settles—but gossip does not. Especially when it involves divine conception and the Deliverer of Amphoreus.)

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    22 Dec 2025

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    Phainon cracks a sly smile, and it’s infuriating just how perfectly his mouth curves upwards, how his eyes moon slightly, the way his hair splays out across the ground like a silvery halo, marred by ash and dirt and blood.

    Like dragging coal across frosted glass, Mydei wants to do nothing more than to ruin him.

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    12 Dec 2025

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    It takes Kaveh a moment to realize that Al-Haitham’s eyes aren’t the only part of him that has gone dark. The tips of his ears peek out between strands of silver hair, tinted a bright red. Streaks of the same color make their way down his neck to where the single green gem sits below his clavicle. Al-Haitham watches, open-mouthed and flushed, as Kaveh slides the cake into the oven and sets a timer. He hovers just by Kaveh’s side, as if he were waiting for him to tell him what to do—or what not to do. Interesting.

    “Kaveh,” Al-Haitham repeats, his voice rough, “untie me. Now.”

    Kaveh regards him for a moment longer, amused. “Somehow I don’t think that’s what you want,” he says, trailing a teasing finger along Al-Haitham’s forearm. Al-Haitham shivers, his chest rising and falling rapidly as he stands there, rooted to the spot, and stares at Kaveh with dilated pupils. His flush has spread to his face, his cheeks the color of ripe cherries.

    When Al-Haitham displays a keen interest in a certain piece of Kaveh’s dendro technology, Kaveh is more than happy to satisfy that interest.

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    05 Dec 2025

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    A throwaway comment about switching should’ve gone nowhere. But Phainon made the mistake of bringing it up again, and Mydei, ever the opportunist, decided to make an evening of it. A very long, very well-documented evening.

    Or in which Phainon’s mouth writes a check his ass absolutely cannot cash.

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    30 Nov 2025