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Lying amidst his veritable mountain of bureaucratic paperwork is a deceptively thin file, unearthed after hours of sifting through the stacks of documents that his latest attempt at a quiet weekend had garnered him. The smooth manila surface is disrupted only by the hasty scrawl of a lower receptionist, but the label is enough to make his brow twitch in annoyance.
Quarterly Performance Review Request Forms – Grand Sage Alhaitham
His first thought is: they got his job title wrong.
or: Cyno is in charge of writing Alhaitham's work performance review. No really, that's all. (Spoiler alert: it's not.)
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07 May 2026
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Two fluffy grey cat ears peek up from Alhaitham’s hair and he can barely make out a tail draped across the Grand Sage’s seat.
“You may continue.” Alhaitham says, his usual composed expression in place as if there’s absolutely nothing abnormal here.
Alhaitham with cat ears. That’s it. That’s the fic.
Reorganized/fixed up a little combining chapters 1+2 so "Chapter 3" is actually new.
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07 May 2026
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“What’s she like?”
Alicent sighs. “I do not know. We were friends many years ago.”
At least, Alicent likes to think they were friends. But the princess was always sporadic with her attentions— quick to grow bored of things, discarding the old in favor of the new. Alicent supposes that’s what happened to her, as well. She had written letters, those first few moons after she returned to Oldtown.
The princess never responded.
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The king is seeking a husband for his omega daughter, so countless lords send their sons to vie for the hand of the future queen.
Alicent is not a son. She is not a knight. Her presentation was surely a mistake, one that’s cost her everything. Now she is her brother’s squire, accompanying him to King’s Landing as he competes for the princess's hand.
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20 Mar 2026
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an opening, petal by petal by towine (blacktreecle)
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
24 Nov 2022
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At the celebration feast, Nilou asked Cyno if he would be happy continuing to be the General Mahamatra.
Cyno said, “It’s not about being happy. There are merely a lot of things that I must do.”
Alhaitham can’t say for certain why Cyno’s words bothered him. In a way, the sentiment is unsurprising; Cyno is, after all, dutiful to a fault. It makes sense that he puts his work over himself. Even so, Alhaitham wonders what the shape of Cyno’s happiness would be, if he allowed it to take form. If he ever allowed someone like Alhaitham to witness it.
Which he certainly never would.
Or: In the midst of the Akademiya’s rebuilding, Nahida sends her closest advisors on a trip through Sumeru.
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25 Feb 2026
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Venturing into the desert after runaway thesis students is, unfortunately, a normal part of Cyno's job. The same can't be said of Alhaitham, feeble scholar extraordinare, and yet he's here anyway. It's an addition Cyno doesn't need, no matter how helpful Alhaitham can be, but though the company's better than expected, the complications only get worse from there.
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01 Feb 2026