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  1. Public Bookmark 46

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    The Dessendre name is synonymous with color and light, but for Verso, life is lived in monochrome. Haunted by a fire that scarred his family, he has locked himself away with his music where no one can reach the man behind the melody.

    Enter Gustave, an engineer who sees the world in the light of physics and function. In the artistic fervor of Montmartre, their burgeoning connection becomes a work of chiaroscuro, demonstrating that true beauty is found not in perfect light or absolute darkness, but in the delicate balance of both.

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    03 Nov 2025

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    The girl’s shoulders hunch again. An expression is battling on her face. Guilt again, and fear, and shame. And then faintly, in the soft turn of her cheek, commiseration. She watches Gustave for a long, sad moment, and then turns to a new page in the notepad. She starts writing something, and then stops, glancing furtively at Gustave before scribbling it out. On a new line she instead writes in big bold letters:

    Maelle.

     

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    Gustave is the local mechanic of Lumiere, an idyllic coastal village far away from the chaos and conflict of Paris. Struggling with his recent injury and the loss of a good friend, he's not quite prepared when a family moves into the abandoned Manor on the edge of town.

    He's definitely not prepared for their children.

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    12 Oct 2025

  3. Public Bookmark 47

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    It had been five years since their gods had been forced out of the Canvas. Five years, for them, in which Gustave had had to wrap his head around not only the events after his death — of Canvas Worlds and a grieving family, of a dead brother and the remains of a soul pushed past its breaking point — but also of their future. A future they now, apparently, had for years and years to come, if his friends were to be believed.

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    28 Sep 2025

  4. Public Bookmark 53

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    There is a man living above the boulangerie on Rue de Poussin who did not live there before. 

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    09 Sep 2025

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    What if, in a pivotal moment, Verso had made a different decision? What if Renoir had not bothered to ensure Gustave was actually dead and had just left after making his point to Maelle? What if Expedition 33 had left the Stone Wave Cliffs before a certain handsome, brooding stranger could reveal himself?

    Verso, after dragging a half-dead Gustave away from the cliff that would have been his eternal resting place in another life, now has to deal with the consequences of his actions.
    Gustave, heavily injured and stranded in Nevron-infested lands without the support of his friends, needs to learn how to trust and rely on a stranger who looks suspiciously similar to the man who attempted to kill him.

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    28 Aug 2025