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    Survival is an artform.
    Armand has been an unwilling student, an eager acolyte, a master of the craft.

    The things he feels can be broken down into component parts. Can be simplified into anatomic essentials, the series of processes required to make him something that functionally resembles the likeness of man. Sensation without thought. Water-damp brushstrokes dragging across a canvas with no paint. No color. No light.

    Leaving Dubai was an act of necessity, arriving anywhere else an act of apathy.


    In which Daniel attempts to make sense of the past and Armand attempts to do whatever the opposite of that is.

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    19 Apr 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 2

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    they both learn to live a little

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    19 Apr 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 34

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    They've faced titans. Monsters. Dealt with the gods. Turns out the hardest thing Percy and Annabeth have ever had to do is stand across from each other — sword to sword — and pretend that's the only fight happening.

    It's not. There's everything they haven't said. The prophecy hanging over their heads. The weeks of careful distance that have taken up more space than either of them knows what to do with.

    A lego house — that's what they're building. Piece by piece. Snapped together and pulled apart and put back together again, because that's what you do when something matters. You don't leave it broken on the floor. You pick up the pieces. You start again.

    It falls apart sometimes. That's the nature of it. That's the nature of them.

    But Percy will always pick up the pieces. And Annabeth will always come back to build.

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    (set at tlo)

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    12 Apr 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 22

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    Annabeth Chase is efficient. Annabeth Chase is capable. Annabeth Chase does not panic, does not falter, does not ask for help she doesn't think she needs. She is, in every measurable sense, a structure.

    Structures are impressive until they aren't. Until the pressure finds the one flaw, the one hairline crack, and reminds you that nothing built by hands — or gods — lasts forever.

    But here is what structures cannot do: Hurt. Doubt. Grieve. Crawl back from the rubble of themselves.

    Annabeth Chase can. Annabeth Chase has.

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    (set after chapter 18 in botl, after the attack at camp half-blood).

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    04 Apr 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 16

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    What does it mean to save the world, only to lose your own? Zeus calls it a decree. Percy calls it a cage. Bound to Olympus and stripped of the life he fought for, he is allowed only three fleeting escapes a year — three chances to breathe something real. The gods have everything from him.

    Everything, except the quiet ache of knowing Annabeth is out there, living the life that should have been theirs.

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    An AU where saving the world earns Percy an eternity bound to Olympus — three days a year beyond its gates, and a curse so cruel it hollows him out completely: no one remembers him. Not the campers. Not his family. Not Annabeth. No one, except Grover.

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    02 Apr 2026