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  1. Public Bookmark 14

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    So what if his former associates thought of him as a lowlife? So what if he was disgraced from academia? So long as he was still welcomed back into the town-on-Gorkhon, nothing else mattered.
    With quivering hands, he picked up the letter and carefully opened it as though he was afraid something would jump out at him from inside it. But nothing had changed, it was the exact same as when he had first read it a week ago.

    Bachelor Daniil Dankovsky,
    There is another way.
    — Victoria Olgimskaya Sr., The Light Mistress.

    Yes, there was hope for him still, and hope he would cling to till death did them part.

    ———

    Over a year later, Daniil Dankovsky returns to the Town, with a letter from a dead woman and a ticking time bomb inside his own body, in a last-ditch effort to defeat death.

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    18 Dec 2025

  2. Public Bookmark 6

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    06 Nov 2025

  3. Public Bookmark 3

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    Daniil Dankovsky laid motionless on the steps to the Cathedral, limp as a puppet with its strings cut.
    No, not a puppet. A doll.
    That’s what he was after all. Just a doll who, until recently, had delusions of being a man.

     

    Dankovsky has found out the horrible truth that he is a literal plaything for two cruel children. How will he live his life now with this knowledge and what will he create.

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    29 Oct 2025

  4. Public Bookmark 46

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    “… I’d say good morning,” Dankovsky said at length, a little hoarsely, “but I’m afraid I’ve lost track of the time. Good … something, Haruspex.”

    “Afternoon. You look—” Artemy began, and broke off.

    “Yes? What ghoulish thing do I resemble today?” Daniil blew out some smoke, staring pensively ahead. “A striga, perhaps.”

    “—better,” Artemy finished. “Less like you’d gone already, and are only haunting me.”

    That shut Daniil’s mouth.

    [Or: a rendezvous with danger, one very cold winter.]

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    20 Oct 2025

  5. Public Bookmark 1

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    Daniil tries to apologize to Artemy, but doesn't want to.

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    14 Oct 2025