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  1. Public Bookmark 19

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    Jing Yuan’s eyes turn honey-soft, so mellow that the emotion in them has a taste. “I think,” he continues, “if we were to meet tonight, I would still see it. I would still know you. You could be an elegant gege I met here by chance, and still.”

    “Still,” Dan Feng echoes. Something tightens in his chest, not unpleasantly.

    “Wouldn’t that be fun?” Jing Yuan’s smile widens. “A chance encounter between two strangers. Qixi is behind us, but the mid-autumn moon is also suitable for romance, no?”

    Or: Even on the night when the moon shines brightest, Dan Feng only has eyes for the sun.

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    13 Oct 2024

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    “I hardly believed it,” said Maedhros. “What are you doing here?”

    "I bring a message from my father."

    Maedhros blinked. "Really?"

    Fingon grinned. "I believe his exact words were: you're visiting who, well if you must you must, say something suitable, something something friendship something something kinsmen, tell him good job keeping my brother's sons out of trouble, I'd rather wrestle another ice bear myself – but don't say it like that!"
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    Fingon goes to visit Maedhros, accidentally arrives during a Fëanorion family reunion, and quickly regrets many (but not all) of his life choices.

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    12 Oct 2024

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    Jing Yuan belongs to himself. The words are unfaltering truth acknowledged aloud, and Dan Heng uses that unbendable force to slice at the remaining fetters of cataclysmic energy. Jing Yuan belongs to himself, and by his own assertion he belongs to the Xianzhou Luofu—

    And then, because the damage wrought by Phantylia's forced link continues to fester even as he severs the very last chain, Dan Heng will claim Jing Yuan under his protection, and offer up his own energy to bind the spiritual wounds until the damage heals itself.

    Dan Heng gathers his considerable power, and wills this reality into existence—

    —and he belongs to me.

     

    (Dan Heng learns to reconcile the past with the present and to forge his own path on the Xianzhou Luofu – and finds that although the Luofu holds plenty of former allegiances that he no longer wishes to adhere to, a rare few have managed to eel their way into his affections and earn the protection of his dragon heart all the same.

    Jing Yuan is foremost amongst them.

    Set immediately after the 1.2 Trailblaze Mission, A Dragon Gallant, Its Ocean Distant).

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    11 Dec 2023

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    "I don't mess with the fae," Otabek says.

    "I'm not asking you to mess with them," JJ flat-out lies.

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    24 Jun 2019

  5. Public Bookmark 5

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    God knows it isn’t fear. It’s been a long time since he’s had cause to feel that. But a man gets used to protecting what’s his: his ship, his mobile suits, his ragtag assortment of ex-soldiers, too many of whom had followed him into the black out of a sense of starry-eyed hero worship than any understanding of the mess they were getting themselves into.

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    16 Jun 2019