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    "Now. Must I remediate basic survival instincts, as well? Stand up or get shot."

    Aventurine doesn't understand half of those words, but it doesn't matter. The gun speaks clearly enough.

    Kakavasha's riskiest gamble pays off, and he is hired by the Interastral Peace Corporation as Aventurine. A second chance at life, if he can survive it.

    Without a Synesthesia Beacon, every conversation is a puzzle, a bluff. The new Stoneheart has learned to fake fluency in the IPC's language, Universalis, the same way he learned everything else: through observation and context, by slipping through the cracks with charm and deception.

    That is, until Dr. Ratio cares enough to scrutinize him, and refuses to look away.

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    “Oh Achilles.” He cries and his tears fall as he weeps, he cannot keep them inside anymore, he cannot.

    “You weep for me as if I am dead.” He hears Achilles’s voice broken and trembling. He feels him pulling Patroclus’s hands from his own face, that he had used as if to hide himself and then takes them again in his own. “Please do not mourn me. I’m not dead.” he says, his voice louder but still broken, soft too, as it usually is when taking to him.

    Patroclus looks at him then and immediately regrets it when Achilles’s own teary face greets him, his green eyes dull and vulnerable.

    “And when you are? What will I do then?’ he whispers.

     

    Achilles and Patroclus discuss the prophesy, the war and Patroclus's desire to follow him even into death.

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    15 Jun 2025

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    Aventurine is stuck in a time loop on the day of his “death.”

    After forty cycles of failed attempts to get time moving forward, he decides to take a break from solving the mystery and blow off a little steam with Ratio. But the doctor’s reaction to what Aventurine intends to be a casual hook-up raises deep issues for both of them and ends up dragging Ratio into the time loop.

    To break free, they will have to cooperate. Productive communication, however, turns out to be a much bigger challenge than the time loop itself.

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    15 Jul 2024

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    In this world, to eat is to survive. Aventurine learned this from a very young age. However, the people he became acquainted with in his role as a strategic investment specialist did not follow the same rules. A show of wealth, to consume rather than eat. A show he desperately put on to rub shoulders with those considered elite.

    When a deal goes bad, Aventurine finds himself in Ratio’s care, who is determined to help treat his problem.

    Can he learn to live, rather than simply surviving?

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    03 Jul 2024

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    As much as his co-workers might insist it is possible, and Aventurine himself might pretend it has happened; you do not return from the shadow of Nihility unscathed.

    Lucky for him, Dr. Ratio has some critters that need fostering.

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    02 Jul 2024