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  1. Public Bookmark 87

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    Van Zieks rises from his chair, pacing over to his window. “You are to take a sabbatical. As long as it takes for you to go to your homeland, get your head together, and return.”

    Asougi stares at his back, taking a moment to process it – Van Zieks had spoken calmly but in full seriousness, his typical tone, as if he were doing something as simple as telling Asougi to read about the case he’d just gotten. “Pardon?”

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    31 May 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 23

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    Kazuma and Barok leave harbor.

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    30 May 2026

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    You are different, Flame-of-burning-oak told him. You are not waiting-for-Our-Maker. You cannot hear the emptiness where once we felt his song.

    I dreamed I was an elf, he confessed, I dreamed I was an elf, and he burned me. I heard Our-Maker laugh, while hot iron seared my skin.

    A nice dream, decided Flame-of-burning-oak, and he thought that she did not understand him, that she had never understood him, and probably never would.

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    A fire from the centre of the world dreams of being an elf, but knows those dreams cannot be real. What he encounters upon finally coming to the surface throws everything he thinks he knows into question.

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    22 May 2026

  4. Rec *

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    Zack laughs hysterically. “No, no, no. That’s not how this works. Didn’t you hear Jessie the other day? I die for you. Not the other way ‘round.”

    Zack lives. What next?

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    15 May 2026

  5. Rec *

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    If this were a different story, Zack thinks, he would be using his last moments to remember kind, green eyes and a sweet smile. He would be staring out into the raining sky, life running out of him, while making peace with the fact that he would never see his first love again. If this were a different story, Zack would not be left empty-handed, crying out as his friend stumbles away into the remnants of a battlefield. He would not be praying for that blond head to turn, aching to capture the final sight of a cherished face before locking it behind two lids.

    No, this does not feel like a fitting end to this story at all―and Zack overflows with the one childish thought that this is unbearably unfair. In the rare moments that he, as any soldier must, contemplated his death, he never imagined that he would die alone.

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    19 Apr 2026

    Bookmarker's Notes

    truly excellent character work and exactly the correct amount of cuddles (ie as many as possible)