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    "Do you have any idea what it's like watching you drift further and further from us? Watching you turn yourself into something unrecognizable? Because I do. I've seen demons cling to human faces like masks. I've watched them mimic grief. Fear. Kindness."
    "Mira." Zoey warns.
    "And lately? When I look at you? I don't see the girl we grew up with and love."
    Rumi's hands begin to shake. "...what do you see?" she whispers.
    "A demon. I don't trust you. Not with me, not with Zoey, not with yourself. You're no different than any other demon we've come across. No different than Gwi-Ma."
    There is a shocked silence.
    Rumi face crumples, it reminds them of the way she begged just a few weeks ago. Begged them not to leave her. To love her. Things had been so good, she was selfish to think she could have this. To want this.
    Her tone is flat and resigned. "Oh."

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    or Rumi tries to hide her full demon traits after the idol awards to protect Zoey and Mira from her, and out of fear that their new fragile relationship will break under the reveal. Mira lashes out in the worst way possible after she catches Rumi in yet another lie, and angst ensues.

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    27 May 2026

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    “Haven’t you done enough?” The question burns his ears, and he knows the answer.
    He’s done more than enough.
    He shouldn’t interfere.
    Despite the customs of today, he respects the desire of a warrior to go out on their own terms.
    This would be a mercy compared to what would face her in just a few hours.
    As Rumi looks down at her blade again, her hands starting to shake, Jinu knows he shouldn’t stop this.
    He should let her go.
    He shouldn’t interfere.
    He shouldn’t.

    Rumi doesn’t make it to Celine, not when Jinu’s betrayal hurts more than enough to end it all.

    Jinu succeeded in his task, and still he feels the same as he did four hundred years ago.

    Mira and Zoey face the consequences of their training, and choice that may change them forever.

    Because hope is an easy thing to hurt, but a hard thing to kill.

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    27 May 2026

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    Awesome sauce

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    After the fight on the train, Rumi returns to the penthouse convinced the only way to save the Honmoon is to remove herself from the equation entirely. Mira and Zoey follow her onto the rooftop and finally discover the truth, neither of them react the way Rumi expects.

    Or: Rumi learns that being a demon and being loved are not mutually exclusive.

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    26 May 2026

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    Rumi's birthdays over the years, from zero to twenty-five.

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    17 May 2026

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    After a rabies exposure, the virus must travel to the brain before it can cause symptoms. Therefore, the incubation period may last for weeks to months depending on several factors such as location of the exposure site (in relation to the brain) and age; in extremely rare cases it could be dormant for years.
    Rumi thinks about this one frequently, lying in bed at night; the idea that you could be wasting away at any moment in your life. A poison in your veins with you none the wiser– like a ticking bomb just waiting to go off.
    You would need to get bit or scratched first, of course, and if you took the right precautions you would likely never know. And Rumi has never been bitten anyway. She’s fine.
    Absently, she scratches at her shoulder– skin tight.

    also known affectionately as the “rabies rumi” fic. i promise she doesn’t actually get rabies.

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    14 May 2026