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    "But Whisper, man. He's never met someone so responsive, so clever, so game for whatever he throws down, so quick to pick up his every mark without so much as a glance for a cue. He keeps trying bigger and better games, just to see if she's got a limit, but if she does, he hasn't found it yet. It's goddamn beautiful."

    Our intrepid heroes go out for a night on the town, see the sights, grab a little intel. When their fishing expedition hooks a bit more attention than expected, drastic measures are required. And then things, as they inevitably do when you have a pair of people chronically incapable of backing down from a dare, escalate.

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    04 Mar 2025

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    Isolation breeds anxiety, and some rather rash decisions. Set after chapter 62, though a little handwavy about the timeline.

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    06 Dec 2024

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    When Riza Hawkeye comes to the front during the Ishbalan War, she's fighting ghosts of the past and figuring out where she fits.

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    04 Dec 2024

  4. Public Bookmark 12

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    [ Looking at the shell of His Highness now, Ingrid wonders how she ever doubted Felix's honesty. “Felix, I… All these years, everything you were saying about His Highness… You were right. Is that what you wanted to hear? Is that what it’ll take for you to listen to me? You were right. You were right. You were—”

    Felix grips his hands into fists, white pulsing at his knuckles. “Be quiet. Shut up.”

    “Felix—” She seizes his wrist. He makes a strangled, suppressed noise, and when she looks up, there are lantern-oil tears glittering stubbornly on his lash line.

    “I was right.” Felix rips his hand out of her grasp. “What good did it do? He won’t do anything but pace and rave and mutter. He won’t even—he won’t even look at me.”

    The words strike true, and Ingrid feels like a little girl, poring over illustrations of knights she’ll never be.

    Instead, she becomes twelve years old again, in a nightdress with dust at the hem and tear stains on the sleeves, curled up in her childhood bed when Sylvain told her, “Ingrid, c’mon. Come out. Look at me, please.” ]

    How do you reach someone who doesn't want to be reached?

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    03 Sep 2024

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    Brain worms, as it turns out, don't *only* share your friends' tragic backstories.

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    12 Aug 2024