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  1. Public Bookmark 6

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    It’s been a year since their fight with Renoir, yet to Lune, it remained an inescapable dream, a nightmare haunting her mind, playing on a loop again and again.

    When she would open her eyes in the morning, dazed with sleep, she could still feel the sticky mixture of sweat and blood all over her body.

    When she would shower, she still felt the phantom pain radiating out of every wound and scratch, the exhaustion of her muscles settling in, as Maelle exchanged final words with Renoir. She felt the adrenaline slowly leaving her body as they watched the petals flying from Renoir’s disintegrating form.

    The sensations of her body from that day have permanently edged their way into her memory. But that was the easy part of it. Easy to push out of her thoughts with a good enough distraction, almost manageable when hidden under piles and piles of work, steps of routine, half-hearted conversations. The hard part was what happened after.

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    12 Feb 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 20

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    “We old men must adapt to the times.” Verso thumbs across her cheek, fond and careful. “You’re way ahead, of course. So cutting edge you make them bleed.”

    “Gustave gets eye strain from arcane journals. As I have told you,” she teases. “Such things tend to happen with age. You’ll have to grow used to it, now that you’re mortal like the rest of us.”

    Age is always a strange topic for them. For everyone in the city. Verso no longer dyes his hair, and silver spills forth with every wash. His beard is salt-and-pepper. Lune longs to join him in that. Visible signs of age fills her with triumph. A satisfying sense of spite, even.

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    My take on the Maelle ending, and what it might mean to live in such a world.

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    12 Feb 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 13

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    How many times can one man fall in love, watch his affections die, and still get up in the morning?
    Here he is again on the precipice, love tightly coiled inside of him like a spring.
    It’s just who he is, who he was painted to be.

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    11 Jan 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 8

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    The Paintress’ great Marionette sat as she always had, before they climbed to the peak, her arms wrapped around her knees. Despite the incongruity, Lune expected Maelle’s childish PAPA VA T’EN to glow high above. Perhaps her bitter, betrayed heart even thought she would see a cursed 33.

    ‘What…’ the mage mumbled, unblinking as she stared at the Monolith, and it’s new message:

    POUR VERSO


    Lune wakes up in the year Monolith 40.

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    02 Jan 2026

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    The Inquisitor talks just a little bit more, and Solas listens just a little bit better.

    When he first meets her, he does not like her.

    She is the perfect culmination of every mistake he’s ever made, quintessentially Dalish with Mythal’s vallaslin tracing her cheekbones, built on the narrow bird bones that are so common to the modern creatures that call themselves elven.

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    12 Nov 2025