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    It’s been a few hours since Martin piled all the tapes of Jon in his little witching circle around the coffin. He’s not sure why that was his solution, but he’s far past the point of questioning why any random idea occurs to him these days. The answer is usually Spooky. Besides, it’s not like he expects this to work. That would be too easy. Too good. And “good” doesn’t really happen to Martin or his people anymore.

    Still, he can at least go re-start the tapes to feel like he’s doing something. They’ll have run out by now.

    The last thing Martin expects is to step out of the Forsaken in Jon’s office and immediately trip and fall over a pile of dirt in the shape of a prone body. He lands in a half-dried puddle of muddy slime on the floor, ruining his expensive suit.

    Joy at seeing Jon floods him in a tingling rush. It banishes every scrap of the Lonely's cold fog in an instant, leaving him feeling uncomfortably warm in a mess of all the emotions he's been pointedly ignoring. Foremost among them, concern which rapidly eclipses the joy.

    Jon doesn’t even stir.

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    “I don’t know.” Jon mumbled. “But I know that I…I don’t want to lose you.”
    “You won’t.” Martin said, as though it was the simplest truth he’d ever told.

     

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    They escape the Lonely. They flee the Institute. For the first time in a long, long while, there is hope. Something blooms in the ashes of all that they've burned to get there.

    It looks like they've got quite a lot left to talk about, haven't they?

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    Maybe Tim going into the alleyway where he knows Jon's having a smoke the night before the Unknowing is a really bad idea. Maybe he does it anyway. Maybe he's not completely certain why.

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    16 Oct 2025

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    It's not as though there's anybody else Jon would prefer to be calling when he touches down in Beijing, and time zones are tricky, so how was he supposed to remember it's three in the morning in London?

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    Even hundreds of miles from London, in a cottage in the Scottish Highlands with the man he loves, Martin finds that the Lonely has a tendency to linger.

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