RamblingIntoTheDistance



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    “You had to go through that thirty-three times?” Tribbie asked. Her voice wobbled with unshed tears.

    Phainon did the only thing possible in such a situation: He panicked.

    “Uh,” he said, because clearly his eloquence had abandoned him during one of the cycles, “yes?”

    // OR, circumstance leads to the heirs thinking Phainon only lived through thirty-three cycles. Rather than correcting them on this, Phainon doubles down and decides this is the new narrative he'll go along with so as to avoid worrying them too much.

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    Phainon and Mydei lead ordinary lives, navigating work, flirtations, and everything in between—except one thing: neither knows the other’s secret identity.

    While Phainon’s got his hands full being a charismatic university professor by day and a notorious anti-hero by night, Mydei’s just trying to keep his cool as a librarian while moonlighting as a vigilante.

    They’re together, they’re happy, and the whole secret identity thing? No big deal.

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    “Goodness, did no one ever leave your islands at all? None of you have heard about the things he does?”
    “I did,” Quintus admits.

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    “But why are your wings exposed? Already needed elsewhere?”

    “I was merely preening them.”

    Phainon blinked. “As in… grooming them?”

    The same way Mydei brushed his hair or straightened his clothes. But his wings?

    “What’s with that look? Surely you…” Mydei realised, so affronted yet resigned for it, “You never preened your wings.”

    “Well they—they’re divine wings! Forged from the power of the Coreflames that inhabit my body. Why would they need preening?”

    “Does that divine body of yours need no washing either?“ 

    In the millions of cycles Phainon’s wings had sprouted and smouldered at his back, wing care had never occurred to him. They were simply there—nothing more and nothing less.

    The same cannot be said for Mydei, who diligently cares for his body and is determined to instil the same practice into Phainon.

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    It feels like you see our culture less and less in the arts, Cousin Faila writes.

    Cliopher writes a fun musical for the kids his cousin teaches. He doesn't expect it to go beyond the school, much less to reach Solaara.

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