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1. but you only asked because you knew that i wouldn't by peripeteia (ghostwit)

   Fandoms: Athenian Mysteries - Gary Corby  

   • Mature
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • M/M, Multi
   • Complete Work

   14 Dec 2025

   Tags

   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Markos (Athenian Mysteries)/Nicolaos son of Sophroniscus
   • implicitly Nico/Diotima also because #wives but. get out of my way gayboy.
   • Nicolaos son of Sophroniscus
   • Markos (Athenian Mysteries)
   • Other Characters Mentioned
   • it's not mutual pining because mutual pining is a closed circle. this is like 3/4ths mutual pining
   • Unresolved Sexual Tension
   • Unresolved Romantic Tension
   • Canon Compliant
   • Character Study
   • Relationship Study
   • Set during Book 6: The Singer of Memphis
   • it's kind of like. aggressive heavy petting
   • Dubious Consent

   Summary

   With no indication of the passing day, they make camp when Markos begins to flag on his lead, his legs flashing lean and dark through the ceaseless, murmuring filter of the sandstorm, lower, then lower still as he fails to maintain the angle of his ankles, seeping into the curvature of each dune. He may be stepping softly for hours, or it may be mere heartbeats, treading into the sand as a man walking the inner face of a cylinder. Beyond sweating, his skin shines by its tightness as do ripe fruit. The thews in his calves and forearms nearly stand.

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