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    An average day of exploring the old catacombs under Corona gets cut short due to a cave in. Good thing Keira's not claustrophobic or anything.

    Because she's not. She's not.

    Whumptober Day 4: Shock
    AILESS Whumptober Day 13: Crushed

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    07 Nov 2025

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    The thing was, Bruno knew it had to happen. He knew they had to Talk About It.

    "It" being him. And where he’d gone.

    And why he’d come back.

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    Julieta let out a pained, heartbroken noise, and Pepa immediately turned to her sister. Julieta was kneeling on the ground, clutching something to her chest. Something wooden. Part of the mural maybe?

    “Julieta?” Pepa went to her, Agustín and Félix not far behind. Julieta didn’t even seem to notice their husbands; with tear-filled eyes, she held the wooden thing out to Pepa.

    Not for the first time in her life, Pepa’s heart shattered in her chest, fragile as porcelain.

    The wooden slab had a plate painted on it. A mimicry of a plate she knew well, even if it was one she hadn’t looked at in ten years. After all, her little brother’s name was right there, painted on the mockery of a plate in Bruno’s slightly crooked handwriting.

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    While clearing out Casita, the truth inevitably comes to light.

    It's time to talk about Bruno and where he's been for ten years.

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    21 Oct 2025

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    Pepa pulled Bruno down, ignoring his yelp and pushed him onto his back. Julieta laughed at the indignant look on his face, lying down on his right. She pulled the blankets up and flung an arm around him, pulling him in close. 

    Pepa, on his left, was practically lying on top of him, clutching him in a death grip.

    Bruno raised his head, eyes flickering to Félix and Agustín.

    “What about-?”

    “If you think we’re letting you out of our sight,” Pepa said. “You’re sorely mistaken.”

    Bruno went very still and utterly silent. For a moment, Julieta wondered if he was going to argue, or burst back into those frantic apologies. She braced herself to quieten him, to insist they had their own apologies too and it could wait until they weren’t all so bone-deep exhausted and in shock.

    Instead, Bruno just gave a quiet sigh and lay back down properly. He grabbed Julieta’s hand, and Pepa’s, and held on tight.

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    Otherwise known as a study in the Madrigal triplets, their relationship, and their cuddle piles throughout the years.

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    21 Oct 2025

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    Her mother sends her a letter, after. We cannot help you, Imelda, it says. You are the consequence of your actions.

    "This is not my fault!" Imelda shouts.

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    Imelda Rivera (b. 1899 - d. 1969), a story that includes but is not limited to: the finest music school this side of the Santo Domingo, three traveling musicians and the mess they made of love, the twice-cursed assassination of Venustiano Carranza, all the patron saints, and ninety-six ways a man can try to cross a bridge.

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    19 Oct 2025

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    Héctor Rivera is content following his friend Ernesto to the ends of the earth in search of fame and fortune. But a hint of a song from Santa Cecilia's coldest woman sends him way off track...and toward a life that's worth more than all the money and recognition in the world.

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    11 Oct 2025