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  1. Public Bookmark 25

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    “You know when I was younger, my mom taught me this magic that if you hug someone for eight seconds, you can take away their pain and cure their anxieties.”
    Qifrey immediately stiffened, which was the opposite effect Olruggio had hoped to draw.
    “…Isn’t that forbidden magic?”
    Olruggio choked on his laugh, surprised, until Qifrey wriggled his way out and drew up Olruggio’s sleeves and it dawned on Olruggio that the other boy wasn’t joking—he was looking for markings on his arms, a sigil to make sense of this “magic”.
    Olruggio swallowed tightly.
    It was fine—it would be fine. He would be the one to show Qifrey, from now on, that it didn’t take magic to be comforted.

    Olruggio teaches Qifrey the magic of hugging. Fifteen years later, Qifrey returns the favor.

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    15 Jun 2026

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    “You know,” Olruggio says, roughly. He doesn’t move to take Qifrey’s hand again. “You know. You can’t not know, Qifrey.”

    Qifrey just looks at him. “I do.”

    The rain continues falling.

    (And so Olruggio forgets. And he inevitably figures it out again, because of course he does; and he inevitably chooses to forget again, and again, and again, because his heart is always the same. The story is always the same. Like a tale from under a silverwood tree, like a myth from the days of old, not so much tied by the constraints of the narrative so much as being narrative itself. Antigone must bury her brother. Iphigenia must be put to death. At a thousand turns, in a thousand ways, Orpheus must turn, and he must look, again, and again.

    And Olruggio forgets.)

    There is an old story about a witch and a silverwood tree.

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    31 May 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 20

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    Olruggio offers comfort so easily. Qifrey has to stop himself from taking too much, lest the whole atelier suffer the consequences.

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    29 May 2026

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    What should one do or feel when he discovers that his old friend has been erasing his mind, over and over again, for almost as long as they've known each other?
    Most people would react with anger or distress. Perhaps they'd consider it a betrayal. But Olruggio isn't most people. Nor is this a situation anyone else would ever find themselves in.
    Not like this. Not like the two of them.
    Because he knows perfectly well that he is the one to blame: The real culprit behind the spell that's trapping them in an endless loop of misery.
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    Olruggio remembers everything. He fully intends to use this knowledge to his advantage. This plan will be better than the last.
    (Spoilers up to Chapter 93 of the WHA manga)

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    11 Apr 2026

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    Every so often, even years after Olruggio had accepted Qifrey’s I can’t, that tension between them pulled taut. Olruggio’s eyes were a deep, dark blue, and at night they looked nearly black, even with the lamp casting light onto his face.
    “Sometimes,” Olruggio said, “I feel like you’re hiding something.”

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    How Qifrey kept himself carefully, deliberately, painstakingly miserable all these years.

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    09 Apr 2026