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She can feel Daisuke’s anticipation, can feel the ripples in the air as the muscles in his arms tense, because he knows her, and he knows what she is going to say. And, somehow, he knows how much it hurts her. But she pushes on, and she spits out the words before their thorns can cut her tongue any more.
“You want me? You gotta get Van.”
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Van and Marya are both grieving. They never thought they'd share that feeling with anyone. But they also never thought they'd step foot on the Zephyr again. Perhaps, together, they can learn to heal.
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27 Jul 2025
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Imogen thrust out a hand, her stupid Gelvaan manners kicking in before she could stop them.
“Imogen Temult.”
The woman examined her hand for a beat, not with hostility, but something more like surprised curiosity. Before Imogen could yank it away, cold fingers wrapped themselves around Imogen’s hand and gave it a gentle shake.
Imogen put every single brain cell she had left into trying not to think about those long and cool fingers, and how they might feel in other places.
“Laudna,” the woman introduced herself.
“Beautiful name,” Imogen said, almost biting her tongue off after she finished saying it.
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Imogen and her daughter Flora have just moved to Jrusar. Laudna quickly becomes Imogen's best friend, and the two of them learn to navigate life and love together.
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08 Jun 2025
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Within an hour, the emotional beating she’d been fending off left her feeling physically battered. Her muscles ached from clenching against the mental assault, her scars were hot and inflamed, and her head pulsed slowly like an approaching threat creeping up behind her. Imogen craned her neck to the side, eyes squeezed shut as she tried to keep the looming migraine at bay.
She inhaled slowly, deliberately, fingers clenching and unclenching to disperse some of the tension elsewhere. Even with the circlet on, the thoughts from the day had built within her mind like a dam holding back a rush of water. The amalgamation of pressure throbbed to the pulse of her heart, and with each beat, that dam cracked a little more.
She hung her head and just breathed.
In and out, in and out, in and out—
Another pulse of hot heat within her mind; further spider-webbing in the dam.
Imogen fisted her hands around the sheets, clutching the edge of the bed in a white-knuckled grip—
Breathe.
In and out, in and out, in and out—"Come back to me, darling."
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The chaos of the Nein Hells wreaked havoc on Imogen's mind and she needs Laudna's help to keep her from drowning.
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- Part 10 of campaign 3 through an imodna lens
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07 Jun 2025
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There’s always a meetup beforehand, in some parking lot somewhere a good distance away. Imogen sighs heavily as she backs her precious ride into a spot at the 7/11 on Black Horse Pike for the time being, already seeing the crowd gathering around to take a look at her car. She feathers the throttle, the turbo spooling up just enough to be heard, tapping the brake once she’s a couple feet away from the bushes behind her, and throws the floor-mounted shifter into park.
Imogen hates crowds. It’s why she doesn’t go to car shows. Why she only does the required meetup before the money gets thrown down for winnings and bets.
Before the race begins.
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02 Jun 2025
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The first time Imogen told Laudna about the storm it was, appropriately, storming.
Laudna’s eyes had been swallowed by a blackness darker than that of the night surrounding them, catching and reflecting even the most minuscule scatterings of light in a way that made her gaze look full with shooting stars. She had taken her leather-shielded hand to hold in both of hers as she listened. It was the first time she could remember someone taking her hand simply to hold.
She said, here is what she knows of the storm: it is unrelenting, it is violent, it is hers.
In the time that has passed since that night the same things that have changed about the storm have changed for her and Laudna—which is to say, nothing at all.
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26 Apr 2025