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  1. Public Bookmark 89

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    Sinocia blinks at him, then says, "You're quite young for that, Olruggio. Are you sure?"

    "No. That's why I said I wanted your opinion."

    // Olruggio, increasingly aware of and unsettled by the many lapses in his memory, starts keeping a record of his days in order to find out what, if anything, is ailing him. Qifrey doesn't realize what he's doing until it's nearly too late.

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    10 Jul 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 17

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    It was strange, to think you’d known someone your whole life—known them better than anyone else ever could, better even than you knew yourself—only to suddenly realize out that you'd never truly known them at all.

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    30 Jun 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 9

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    “How do you sleep at night?”

    Wolfwood scowls at the garden. He’s sitting on the big porch watching Vash and Jessica and a handful of other trouble makers toddle around in the squash patch, hunting bugs. The sun is going down, allowing for a break in the heat. Wolfwood has been lounging here for a few hours, and Midvalley has come to bother him. The other man slipped up close to him, leaned on the rail much like Wolfwood is. He watches Vash squawk with laughter and dance away from the large beetle that one of the kiddos thrusts at him. He’s lovely in the dusk. Dark hair pulled back in a slipping ponytail, in a sleeveless shirt his skin sun burnt and freckled. His scars glitter in the suns, pink-silver lines. Sunglasses perched on his nose, a smile, real, spread across his face.

    Wolfwood chews a toothpick flat.

    “Poorly.”

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    26 Jun 2026

  4. Public Bookmark *

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    Olruggio has a headache. Because he has a headache, he isn't paying enough attention to the girl's primer spells.

    This has consequences.

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    Agott yelps as he throws himself over her, but there’s no time to be gentle, there’s no time to get to both girls. There’s only protecting the one closest and begging, pleading, that Riche is fast enough to do what he cannot.

    “RICHE, CLOSE YOUR CIRCLE!” He screams.

    Please, please, let her still be on the right page, please--

    The thought leaves him with a hiss, not through mouth but through skin, the high-pitched screech of boiling water meeting flesh, followed by his own wail as his arm erupts in pain.

    And Olruggio of the Torch burns.

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    24 Jun 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 50

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    There are times when Qifrey wishes that Olruggio would use him.

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    Qifrey fantasizes about giving instead of taking. Olruggio trusts him.

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    21 Jun 2026