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  1. Rec 4

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    To our beloved grandson, Maia Drazhar:

    We look forward to finally meeting you in person! We do not travel as a rule, but—if we are to be bluntly honest—the prospect of introducing our daughter's son to his kin is what convinced us to finally make the trip. We are sure Varecoriver will be right pompous about this, but it is well worth it. You have done a remarkable job of playing politics for him, eh? But you must understand we shall not go easy on him just because he is your brother!
    Our congratulations also to your nephew Idra on his coming of age! We hear the empress is with child, so his sisters need not be so lonesome in the nursery for very long.
    By the time you read this, we shall be near to the court, so do not bother sending a response by letter.

    Maru Sevraseched

    A year and a half ago, Maia was brought to court by his brother, the newly ascended Emperor Varecoriver. Now he is faced with a new challenge that threatens to upend everything he knows once again.

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    30 Sep 2025

  2. Rec 1

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    It began, as many things did, at one of Ciris’s parties. The famous tenor Eris Vindar, who had recently come back after a leave of absence from the Zhaö Opera due to contracting a cough and losing his voice, was discussing the travels he had done during his time away.
    “We have always wanted to see the Amal’opera,” he was saying, “and so we took a week in Amalo, and made certain to attend every opera house in the city at least once."
    Ciris had been engaged in conversation with Osmin Duchenin, but turned his head at once to heed Vindar’s words.
    “Well, with respect to present company,” Vindar continued, with a cheeky nod at Osmer Vendecar, a well-known patron of the Amal’opera, “we did not find the Amal’opera the most standout—of course, the singers were magnificently talented, and everything as beautiful as it is famed—but it is another establishment, and quite a different sort of show, which caught our attention…”

    Ciris Drazhar, now Emperor Varecoriver, is invited by a friend from the opera world to attend the Vermilion Opera’s controversial smash hit, Zhelsu. Neither the show nor anything else about his visit to Amalo is at all like he expected.

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    25 Sep 2025

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    SecUnit finds itself in charge of one of Dr. Mensah's children, and on the run. Luckily, it's good at its job. Unluckily, it has to hang out with a human adolescent. (It can handle the people trying to kill it. It's the babysitting thing that's terrifying.)

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    23 Sep 2025

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    “I’m twenty-eight!” Harry said. “I’ve been an Auror for ten years! You want me to go back to Hogwarts now?"

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    23 Sep 2025

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    It’s weird when Hermione announces that she and Ron have broken up. It’s weirder when this is followed by the revelation that she’s already moved on—and the new object of her affections is Draco Malfoy.

    Things only get worse from there.

    (A drarry fic featuring fake dating, jealousy and bad choices.)

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    22 Sep 2025