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  1. Public Bookmark 40

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    “This could kill us,” he says.
    Essek’s hold on his hand tightens. Eadwulf presses his forehead against Caleb’s right temple and closes his eyes like he is reminding himself that they’re both real. Astrid laughs, a low, wounded sound.
    “Then it kills us,” she says.

     

    The first five years after Trent, they rip the world apart and sew it back together again with crooked, bloody stitches.

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    28 Aug 2023

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    auuugh. recovery and justice and good things as difficult processes. things good and bad, easy and difficult, often at the same time. and the people doing it with you.
    (post c2, the rocky road to trent getting put away, caleb and astrid and eadwulf and beau.)

  2. Public Bookmark 28

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    Some days, Beauregard can't get Astrid Beck's voice out of her head.

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    Astrid, Caleb and Eadwulf are caught in a fire. Astrid asks for help, and Beauregard picks up the pieces.

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    29 Sep 2022

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    god god god god god. beau and caleb and the hard fought understanding between the two, beau being kind even when she feels so inadequate at it, distrust and Something between beau and astrid (inextricably intertwined with caleb, bc of course). So good. and everything tragic about astrid and caleb OFC man man man. and essek and caleb and beau and caleb! aaa

    (beau, caleb, astrid, and fires, post campaign)

  3. Public Bookmark 28

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    She'd wrapped her arms around Orym then. She wraps her arms around him now, whispers into his ear, and oh, dear. Wet tear-lines are tumbling from her eyes too. Everything feels just horrible.

    We can't do this by ourselves, she says, but she knows he will know it's far from a selfless plea. Fearne has always been a bit selfish, and she's fine with that. Can you please come back? I'm getting a little scared. 

    He comes back. Somehow, she brings him back. And then - 

    - oh, then, the guilt starts to tumble in. Because Laudna is still gone on the ground, and the sound that leaves Imogen's mouth is an apocalypse in miniature. 

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    Or: Fearne makes a choice.

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    17 Sep 2022

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    this is so good i want to Eat It.
    fearne, and choice, and all these inconvenient emotions

  4. Public Bookmark 4

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    Some mornings, he expects to see the narrow walls of a Bureau storage cupboard, but he listens to the voices drifting up from the street, familiar laughter from the rooms below, feels the blanket curled over his shoulders, until he can convince himself it’s safe to open his eyes.

    (Rupert, in the aftermath of Remember the Dust)

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    10 Sep 2022

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    rupert. i adore you. so much.

    (rupert, post RTD,)

  5. Public Bookmark 33

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    "We made mud pies as kids, yeah," Chris adds slowly, like he's trying not to scare you. "But we also, like, buried bodies and broke bones and bypassed the mortal coil as teenagers, so. I was sort of expecting you might remember that?"

    "Buried bodies?" you ask.

    "More than you'd want, less than you'd expect," Chris says with a shrug.

    "I'd expect zero bodies buried."

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    10 Sep 2022

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    I wasnt able to befriend bec proper in my run. glad for this.