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    Unexpected guests arrive at Veth's house in poor condition, one more welcome than the other.

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    01 Jun 2026

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    Post-S1. Shane wants to come without anyone touching him. Ilya wants to help.

    Or: Ilya tries to take on Shane's tendency to deprive himself by using ancient Chinese military strategy.

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    20 May 2026

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    “I would like you to know me,” Caleb says.

    It feels like a secret. Like the darkest part of him cracked open; all his months and years of hiding, of wrapping his arms and scratching the bindings, of not loving, not loving anything but an unkillable cat — it’s unraveling around him. He feels naked. He feels the way he did the first time Pumat Sol spelled him clean.

    “I find that — I would like you to know me,” he says, again.

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    12 May 2026

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    But no, she was here at Caleb’s shitty table, across from Essek, who’s boring holes into the rough-hewn wood with downcast eyes. The thing about Essek, she muses, was that he felt that he was so indebted to the Nein that he was willing to do almost anything to avoid being an inconvenience. Which might, she thinks, be sort of toxic.

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    06 May 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 54

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    "It is a pleasure to see you again, Master Thelyss," Trent says in an entreating voice. "It has been so long! Imagine my surprise when my Volstrucker found you skulking about the Biting North."

    The spell does not compel a reply, so Essek does not dignify this false pleasantry with a rejoinder.

    Trent smiles and takes a sip of his wine. It shines ruby red in the dim gold of the candlelight.

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    Trent abducts Essek after the Nein's break in at Vergesson. They have a conversation about a mutual pupil over dinner.

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    04 May 2026