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    The man steps closer to check him. See which parts are worth salvaging, maybe. “Your optics are damaged.” A pause; maybe he’s looking elsewhere. “Are your legs malfunctioning? They appear to have sustained significant damage as well.”

    “Servos broke down a few days ago. Probably still good for scrap, though.”

    “Why would--ah. You think I intend to take you apart.”

    (An android, a man; a beginning, an end.)

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    25 Jul 2025

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    People enter Al-Haitham’s life, and then they leave. That is just the way it is: first it was his parents, and then it was his grandmother, and soon enough, it will be Kaveh. He's already set to have a future that other people could only dream of brushing with their fingers.

    There are much greater things than Al-Haitham in Kaveh's destiny.

    Sometimes all it takes is ten years.

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    20 Jun 2025

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    Aventurine nods, curiously waiting for Ratio to elaborate. Is Ratio planning to read to him? That is the sort of activity Ratio would consider leisurely, albeit rather mundane. Still, Aventurine muses, Ratio does have a pleasant voice, so it wouldn't be so bad.

    With a determined nod, Ratio extends his hand expectantly, the other hovering over the book he had placed on the ladder earlier. After a moment's hesitation, Aventurine accepts.

    As Ratio's hand touches the book, Aventurine feels a sudden lurch, and that's all the warning he gets before they're falling.

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    Veritas Ratio possesses the unique ability to enter the world of any book he touches. He uses it to take Aventurine on not-dates.

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    13 Dec 2024

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    Whatever Ratio had drunk, it must have been strong for him to be acting like this. “Yeah, Doc, it’s time you go to sleep-”

    “I love you.”

    Aventurine’s head whipped back into place to face Ratio. Those words couldn’t be real. Not coming out of Ratio’s mouth, and not directed towards Aventurine. He needed confirmation. He needed confirmation that this was real, he wasn’t dreaming, he wasn’t insane, he was here, he was real and that actually happened. Because not even in his wildest dreams would something as impossible as this occur. Desperately, Aventurine seized Ratio’s arms which were loosening around him as he looked to him for validation.

    Aventurine stared at him in horror.

    Ratio was passed out.

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    A drunk Ratio admits he loves Aventurine. Only Aventurine remembers the confession by the next morning.

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    16 Nov 2024

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    “Well Alhaitham,” Kaveh said with considerable sarcasm. “I wish you the best of luck with your studies. And your social life. Kusanali only knows how much help you need with that.” He then made his way back to his other group, immediately smiling upon return.

    And with that, Alhaitham blissfully continued his study with the addition of his soundproof earpieces to conceal what was quite possibly the most deafening voice he had ever heard.

    He should have known from this conversation alone that the blond was akin to a tumultuous sound: blocking out everything else in its vicinity, until it was all anyone could focus on. Until Kaveh was all anyone could focus on. Anyone being Alhaitham, of course.

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    A chronology of Kaveh and Alhaitham’s time at the Akademiya from the moment they met to the moment they fell apart.

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    03 Aug 2024