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  1. Public Bookmark 4

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    Fixing is the modus operandi by which Gustave operates, something comforting - find the problem, think on it, knock heads and ideas around, build the patch, apply the patch, test the patch. The steps fall one after the other with rhythm, cylinders firing inside a well-oiled machine. It's a dance he knows and loves.

    The steps are out of order for this song. His great stumble stares back at him, the stump of an arm wrapped in fresh bandaging.

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    AKA Gustave overcomes the loss of his arm.

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    18 Jun 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 20

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    Freckles on his shoulders, an old scar just under the collarbone from a wound Henry wasn’t there to defend him from, once. More lost details, more differences, more that persists only in Henry’s mind. Oh, to capture this, to sculpt or carve it. To be able to hold it in his hand with such pressure that it breaks the skin. To absorb it and let it absorb him.

     

    Hans carves Henry a wooden figure of himself. Through blood and killing and stealing and coming home, it becomes the only real thing.

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    31 May 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 36

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    Martin thinks a toy sword will beckon Henry down a path of great ruin. Radzig thinks he's gone a little mad.

    Or, the crumbling remains of a friendship and two men forever bound by a child they both love.

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    17 Mar 2026

  4. Public Bookmark *

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    The sleepless night before they’re set to leave Nebakov and the entire Trosky region behind, Henry stitches up a wounded friend and keeps another warm.

    Or, what wasn’t seen in between Henry running around like a headless chicken trying to help Zizka’s people and waking up to von Bergow on their doorstep.

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    16 Mar 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 18

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    “What happened?” he whispers, reaching around Henry’s tight shoulders to shove the door shut.
    “Nothing,” Henry mumbles, his usual, stubborn self.
    Hans tilts his head back to force him to meet his eye.
    “I don’t feel particularly patient this morning,” he states plainly. It’s true on many accounts. One being the feat of restraint he demonstrates in holding back from kissing Henry senseless. And he is making it rather difficult with that silly moustache of his, framing a guilty little pout.
    “I tripped.”

    Henry comes back to the Den limping and Hans goes all out taking care of him.

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    16 Mar 2026