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    “Mission successful. Prep a pod for the recovered prisoner, and tell Pidge I have her flashdrive,” he says before shutting off the comm again. After Allura’s affirmation, Keith frowns. “Thought you were human.”

    Lance realizes he's still clinging to Keith and lets go, curling his arm around his torso instead. “I'm not. Never have been.”

    “And you didn't bother to mention this when I was losing my shit over being Galra?” Keith’s arms fold across his chest.

    Heat flares in his eyes, and Lance flinches. “I couldn't. I know I'm a hypocrite, but I swear I couldn't say anything.”

    “And why not?” his friend snaps.

    Lance clenches and unclenches his hands, avoiding Keith’s eyes. He opens his mouth to answer, but Elo’ki’s voice sounds before his own does: “Because our prince was never supposed to return home.”

    Lance has played human for nearly a decade. Now, after rescuing an old friend from a Galra outpost, he realizes that he can't keep hiding his past. His home planet and his people are in danger, and even though he was never supposed to return to space, he can't leave them under Galra rule when he can finally do something about it.

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    02 Jun 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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    27 Apr 2026

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    It is a mild night in Nicodranas, and Veth is considering slamming the door in Essek’s face.

    He’s wearing a Disguise that she hasn’t seen before and an expression that warns of future vomit. He says, shivering, “Um. Hello. Please help me?”

    Veth, who is beginning to wish that she hadn’t answered the door in her skimpiest robe, attempts to surreptitiously cross her arms over her cleavage. She says, remarkably pleasantly, “Are you fucking insane?”

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    25 Apr 2026

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    There is a gravity that has pulled them together many times. It pulled Caleb’s lips to Essek’s forehead, and Essek’s hands to Caleb’s arms when a tower collapsed upon him. It pulled Caleb to Eiselcross, now, to be at Essek’s side as his life as the Shadowhand dies.

    Now, it could pull them together into Aeor.

    (Two wizards venture into Aeor - and find that something has woken in the dead city's depths. Something dangerous. Something that will force them to decide what their pasts mean to them, and what they mean to each other.)

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    20 Apr 2026

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    'Changing is hard. For most of us, it happens little by little in in the smallest moments and we don’t notice it, we don’t choose it. But looking yourself in the face and deciding to be different – that is hard. You are unpicking threads of who you are that were put in place more than a century ago.'

    (A collection of Essek-centric oneshots, following a hypothetical redemption journey post-Episode 97. Features Shadowgast and Essek's platonic relationships with the Nein. The fics are arranged in rough chronological order and are loosely interconnected, but they can all be read individually. This series was written during the 2020 hiatus, so is not canon compliant beyond episode 100.)

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    11 Apr 2026