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    The King in Yellow might be gone, but it isn't the only strange entity looming on the borders of reality. Avery is about to find out more about the eerie things that lurk just out of his sight—things that think he's very interesting.

    Luckily, he doesn't have to face them alone.

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    07 May 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 19

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    Avery has spent his entire life inside the castle grounds, forbidden to go outside lest he corrupt his mind, which must be kept clean. On his seventeenth birthday, he is assigned a Royal Knight to accompany him on approved excursions into Carcosa, where he is to meet his people and gain a greater understanding of the city he is prophesied to save.

    On his eighteenth birthday, he learns that even Derek has been keeping the truth from him.

    On his twenty-fifth, he is instructed to die for Carcosa.

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    03 May 2026

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    Even with his stores of near-infinite knowledge, D3rlord3 was not prepared for the sight that awaited him when he answered his front door:

    On his doorstep stood a scrappy-looking young man in a Hawaiian shirt, cargo shorts, and a beaming smile. In his hand was D3rlord3’s hastily-written book.

    The man, still smiling, tilted his head and asked, “Did you write this?”

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    01 May 2026

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    “Avery,” the urgent voice says again, a little breathless and… Pained, he thinks? “You— how long have you—” he swears profusely under his breath, trembling ever so slightly. “Avery, you need to wake up.”

    Wake up? But he is awake. He blinks, not understanding, and the strange golden gladiator seems to pick up on that pretty quickly. He grips his shoulders tighter, enough where he might have bruises later but can’t really find the will to care about it.

    He should be getting back to work. His work is not done. He can’t rest yet.

    But he doesn’t even try to pull away, too entranced by the yellow eyes that never once look away from him. They seem… Different, somehow. Something about the body before him is… Familiar, even if he’s pretty sure he’s never met him before.

    (Or Derek returns to the garden in the church to snap Avery out of his trance in person rather than leaving a sign. Their first official meeting goes a little differently.)

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    25 Apr 2026

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    When a part of the cerebral cortex dies, it’s inevitable that the function that correlates one part to another loses its purpose.

    But all you need is a reconnection.

    ~+~

    A part of him was scared. Is scared. He could live a life beyond this. Could live a life forgetting Derek, a stranger he’s searched for longer than he’d even come to know. It would be easy, to forget. It would be simpler.

    But simple is New Year’s Eve spent alone at home playing Minecraft off a laptop he’d picked up in a locker he was never meant to pry open. Simple is watching hours worth of video content, of the gameplay of a man solving puzzles in a seemingly impossible situation on that sandbox game. Simple is being alone.

    Derek was always meant to reach Avery, and Avery was meant to be reached.

    This time, Avery means to do the opposite.

    OR: Post-DAWTDE Fix-It featuring the rehabilitation of mind, body, and soul.

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    17 Apr 2026