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  1. Public Bookmark 2

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    "Her heart told her it was real. As real as Paris in celebration, as real as the sparkle of the Eiffel Tower the first ten minutes of every hour, as real as their beautiful neighbouring penthouse on Avenue de Montaigne, as real as the feeling of her dads lips on her forehead when, as a child, they would say goodnight to her, covering her up to her chin and dispelling the twisted, anguished ghosts of her first three years, nameless, devouring presences.
    Kihelle knew she had been born into a troubled family, and perhaps had early traumas.
    But those lights were not of this life, and that pain was not her pain.
    Not quite."

    I timidly venture into my first AU fic set in the modern world. A story of past lives and new identities, and how a group of friends decide to react to the emergence of powerful and strange memories.
    Lots of Christmas vibes attached. This is my "thank you" to the wonderful FFXVI community, especially my Teredio family!🧸

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    27 Nov 2024

  2. Public Bookmark 18

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    Terence and Dion - 31 days of mindless indulgence.
    Written for Kinktober 2023.

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    06 Oct 2023

  3. Public Bookmark 14

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    "You are to see that she is provided for" - Dion Lesage

    Or Terence carries out Dion's last directive.

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    16 Aug 2023

  4. Public Bookmark 73

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    Loneliness is the thread which weaves together the lives of thirteen-year-old Dion Lesage, crown prince of the empire of Sanbreque, and fourteen-year-old Terence Marchand, the youngest child of a knight in the emperor's service. Fearful for their sons' well-beings in the face of duty and grief, their fathers bring them together in a bid for companionship. What follows is a story spanning nearly two decades, in which love, loss, and the fate of a kingdom weigh heavy between them.

    While Dion struggles with the death of his mother and what it means to lead a nation, Terence learns that solitude isn't the safe haven he made of it as a boy. Their reliance on each other grows and so too do the burdens of war. When eventually the emperor's schemes take a turn for the tyrannical, Dion and Terence are left to salvage the soul of Sanbreque from the ashes he leaves in his wake.

    Childhood Friends to Lovers.

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    11 Aug 2023

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