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    Everything had, in indelicate terms because the delicate ones simply weren't strong enough, gone to complete shit so fast. It wasn't like she hadn't seen it coming, but she thought they had more time. The Sundered Houses were slow, even in their evil. Their malice was terrible but predictable, their maneuvering insidious but gradual. The wholesale slaughter of two Houses, the blatant bid for absolute dominance—that wasn't how the world worked.

    Except, of course, that it was, and that was precisely what Primus Tachonis had done, and now she was sitting in the dark woods listening to Vaelus pace around on guard, wearing a pair of too-big boots that had once belonged to Shadia Fang, because Aranessa didn't currently own shoes, let alone hiking boots.

     

    Or: Aranessa and Occtis talk about sewing, protectors, and where they go from here.

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    16 Nov 2025

  2. Public Bookmark 12

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    Find that moment, just steps away from a forested path, when a familiar voice called out to him with desperation lacing every word and he had turned to look back.

    He couldn't fathom not turning back.

    And when he does-

    He looks up at her, sunken eyes wide and burning with unearthly light, and he asks her, “Why?”

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    31 Oct 2025

  3. Public Bookmark 62

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    Occtis only knew the rest of the night in flashes.

    The overwhelming rush of sensation and imagery and information was thick and sharp and something that felt almost painful. It was more, he thought, than he would have been able to comprehend even on a normal day.

    This was so obscenely, absurdly far past normal that there were no words to even try and describe it.

     

    Or: The thing that used to be Occtis Tachonis tries to adjust to his new existence. Hal tries to be gentle with a young man who has had a very long night.

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    29 Oct 2025

  4. Public Bookmark 37

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    Alogar could already be dead by now.

    Thaisha is digging through a linen closet for extra blankets though because Lady Aranessa Royce needs somewhere to sleep. Because her last host had their skull removed. Because the Palazzo Davinos has apparently already been swept clean of everything but memory. Julien Davinos stands next to her, still covered in gore, but his freshly cleaned hands are held at the ready for the stack of deep red quilts she manages to unearth. The blankets have been perfumed with lavender and sage from the family herb garden, and some of the dried leaves have escaped their sachets and scattered across the stitching. It's fine. They’ll do.

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    26 Oct 2025

  5. Public Bookmark 10

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    Occtis isn't good at... people.

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    26 Oct 2025