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  1. Public Bookmark 32

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    Temenos reaches up and pulls the hood of Crick’s own cape upward and over his head, blocking Crick’s view of the alley entrance. “With your life?”

    Crick swallows. “Yes.”

    Temenos casts one last glance at the alley entrance, murmurs a quick prayer to Aelfric, and then looks back at Crick. His eyes are ablaze with adrenaline and something else that Crick doesn’t have time to place before he says, “Follow my lead,” and pulls Crick into a kiss.

    [AKA the "public displays of affection make people nervous" trope]

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    10 Nov 2025

  2. Public Bookmark 72

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    “Are you worried about him?”

    “Who? Partitio?”

    “Crick,” Throné said, rolling her eyes. “Are you worried about him?”

    Temenos snorted at that. “Worried?” he repeated. “Whatever for?”

    And that gave her pause for a moment, frowning as she thought to herself. She glanced out at the darkness. “He’s a good man,” she finally said, her eyes saying a million things neither of them could articulate.

    Temenos turned away, wind tousling his hair. “I suppose he is,” he said with a humorless smile. “But all the more reason not to get too attached, hmm?”

    (In which Temenos decides to go on a late night stroll)

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    10 Nov 2025

  3. Public Bookmark 56

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    “We should still do something about it,” Agnea concluded, freeing her face to pound her fist into her palm, “we know Temenos is interested—”

    Partitio perked up, a spark in his eyes as he added, “—an' Crick is so bad you can see it from the other continent.”

    “So we just need to help them along a little!” Agnea clapped her hands, letting out a little cheer. “It’ll be good for them!”

    The group decides Crick and Temenos' painfully long courtship has to end. Crick, separate from them, comes to much the same conclusion. Shenanigans ensue.

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    27 Oct 2025

  4. Public Bookmark 24

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    Above anything else, Sylvain knows it was Felix who’d done him in. In the unsettled aftermath that always followed a letter from Margrave Gautier, Felix had given him a steady, dark-eyed look and said: you should just tell him you’re spoken for.

    It was the sort of gesture that might make a man unreasonably confident.

    In which Sylvain is more or less locked away in a tower by his father for his refusal to marry, and Felix is a man who has never shied away from a challenge.

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    22 Oct 2025

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    "At some point I'd really like you to stop coming back," Adam says. "At this rate that's never going to happen."

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    Adam works at a bookstore. Ronan is bad at buying gifts.

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    08 Sep 2025