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    “Are you a Sentinel?” he blurts, before remembering Skirk's reticence to questions.

    She doesn’t stop moving, but she does glance at him from the corner of her eye.

    “No,” she says. “But you are a Guide.”

    Ajax blinks, faltering. The woman does not stop there.

    “You have also been blessed by Celestia. That Vision was next to you when I found you. To come into both blessings while in the Abyss.” She pauses. “You’re either extremely fortunate, or perhaps extremely cursed.”

    “A Guide?” Ajax’s brow furrows. “No, I must be a Sentinel.”

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    Ever since Ajax was young, he has dreamed of being a Sentinel like his father. With heightened senses and strength, he could easily be a renowned adventurer, able to make a name for himself.

    Life does not quite work out that way.

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    Anxiety punched up his chest like the traitor that it was. Sunday didn’t need any reminding that this move was risky, drawing attention he neither needed nor wanted. He wasn’t even sure why the Trailblazers had agreed to such an impromptu transfer mid-season. Either they hadn’t thought it through, or they were desperate.

    Sunday could relate.

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    “Hugo.” Lycaon doesn’t even have the decency to sound winded, although it means the frustration is all the more obvious in his voice. He stops several paces away, further than their usual preference, obviously wary of spooking Hugo into fleeing once more. “Stop fucking running.”

    “I already stopped,” Hugo points out. “Otherwise, you wouldn’t even be able to catch my shadow.”

    Lycaon’s eyes flash with ire, but after a moment, he backs down. When he speaks again, the previous hesitance is back. “Then… can we talk?”

    “What’s there to talk about?” Hugo says. “Jack was very clear. He doesn’t trust me. And you obviously agree.”

    “I do trust you—”

    “Because your silence was so convincing.”

    Lycaon opens his mouth, but no words emerge.

    Hugo smiles. It feels overstretched on his lips, stiff and unnatural. “Like so,” he says softly, and takes a step backward.

     

    (A canon divergence story set during Hugo and Lycaon's youth, in which Hugo overhears the entire conversation between Jack and Lycaon in that small attic.

    Only this time, Lycaon realizes that Hugo was there, and that he heard everything).

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    The vampire lord Kaveh drinks from his thrall, Alhaitham—and nearly kills him. 572 days later, they meet again in a garden full of hyacinths.

    This fic is illustrated by the wonderful lalamilali.

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    "What the FUCK," Dabi spits, shoving Hawks off him while blue fire bursts from his hands. His eyes are wild, horrified and furious, and Hawks can't help but laugh and laugh and laugh. Dabi is alive.

     

    Hawks successfully travels back in time and sets about to make it everyone’s problem.
    Sequel to Taken with Water.

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