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  1. Public Bookmark 40

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    This is not a love story.

    This is a story about food.

    This is a story about the time Diluc Ragnvindr told a reporter that none of the dishes in his own restaurant were as good as the ramen Kaeya Alberich made for him in culinary school. He had no reason to bring it up. It wasn't like they were friends. They were barely even classmates, seeing as Kaeya decided to drop out and leave the valedictorian spot to Diluc.

    (This is also maybe, possibly, kind of a love story.)

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    28 Apr 2025

  2. Public Bookmark 9

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    “When was the last time you had alcohol?”

    Diluc remembered. There were two reasons Diluc didn’t drink: one was taste, but not all drinks tasted the same, and finding alcohol that was sweet enough for him was not that hard. Mix the right ingredients and he couldn’t even taste it. That was the reason he told everyone. There was a second reason, one he barely wanted to remember. It wasn’t high on his list of regrets, but it was loud and blatant.

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    Kaeya's behavior is already pretty odd. When one evening he starts acting even more strangely than usual, Diluc struggles to understand what is wrong, and what the date has to do with it.

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    27 Apr 2025

  3. Public Bookmark *

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    Xie Lian gets a glimpse of its eye: a hot coal set deep into unearthly, marble-like skin, onyx pupil blown so wide with bloodlust it threatens to swallow the red iris entirely. A mouth full of entirely too many teeth, extended incisors bared like daggers. Rust smeared down the pale line of its throat.

    A vampire. A feral vampire.

    Looking at him like a feast set out before a starving man.

    While wandering the mortal realm, Xie Lian stumbles upon a hungry vampire who, curiously, seems reluctant to drink from him.

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    19 May 2024

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    People do not bring Jonathon Sims tea. Martin Blackwood, newly-minted archival assistant, has apparently not received this memo.

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    13 Apr 2024

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    “You need to learn a lesson,” she says, and there’s blood speckling her lips now. She’s overstraining herself. He needs to stop her, calm her down. “And until you learn it you will suffer, just like you’ve made me suffer.”

    “Mum, I think you need to--”

    It turns out that when his father had called his mother a witch, he had meant more than Martin realized.

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    11 Apr 2024