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  1. Public Bookmark 9

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    Where Aventurine recovers post-Penacony, Ratio makes him hand-pulled noodles, and a forced confrontation with the past nearly breaks their new budding relationship.

    "Don't tell me you've gone through my trash. Or hacked my car. Or—Amber Lord forbid—asked Jade about my habits."

    Ratio's frown is, actually, somehow more terrifying than the implications. Five agonising seconds later, he replies, "Of course not. I would not commit a breach of privacy for something as inconsequential as noodles."

    Whether it's the forced stillness of Ratio's loose curled fists or how he schools his expression into placid nothingness, it pricks some part of his sleeping instinct, barking out a warning. There are things unsaid lingering between syllables, tittering in the corners of sibilants, and it tells him Ratio does not lie, even when he is hiding the truth.

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    27 Jan 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 31

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    “Hah. Right. Considering that you already know my identity, I’m flabbergasted that you haven’t locked me up at the first chance.” Aventurine wryly smiled. “You should be lucky, though. That wallet of yours was very tempting.”

    “And now what I’m hearing is that you’re a thief.”

    “Woah, woah. I would never do such a heinous thing, Prince.”

    The man scowled.

    “Ratio.”

    Ratio?

    Aventurine scoffed, tilting his head with a snarky expression. “Oh? So you want to keep up the commoner disguise and make me call you by your regular name? You’re basically telling me that I can use your identity as blackmail, Prin—”

    Ratio glared. “I can out you for your offense if you want to try, Aventurine.”

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    Prince Ratio is disguised as a commoner when he encounters a Mage who tries to wipe themselves from his memory.

    Avenurine is a Mage who tries to wipe himself from a Prince's memory.

    And they both didn't expect to encounter each other at a peaceful village a few days later.

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    27 Jan 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 6

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    The five senses are merely an interpretation of a shared reality, sometimes altered or denied. Boothill didn’t need Penacony to understand that his reality is a lie fabricated by his brain from memories.

    And deep in his chest, in the immense void left by the absence of concrete sensation, Boothill wonders if a man could ever deceive the lie in order to turn the emptiness into reality.

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    12 Nov 2025

  4. Public Bookmark 16

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    “Had you asked me earlier, I’d have arranged to get something tailored for you. Alas, we’re on a bit of a tight schedule, so we’ll have to make do. How do you like this one?”

    Boothill is pretty sure that's the exact same jacket Aventurine rejected not even five minutes ago, only in a different color. “Ya makin’ it real tempting for me to shoot you right now, partner.”

    Aventurine helps Boothill dress up to infiltrate an exclusive IPC-sponsored party.

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    19 Aug 2025

  5. Public Bookmark 5

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    Boothill grins, sharp teeth on display.

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    04 Jul 2025