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    “Shane.” Ilya takes Shane’s head in his hands, squeezes his cheeks so that Shane looks puffy, absurd. Beloved. “I am saying that to me, even though you are retired, you will always be No. 1 hockey player. Fuck Wayne Gretzky.”

    That’s what does it, as Ilya knew it would. Shane rears back, spluttering, outraged, trying not to laugh.

    “Oh, I have committed blasphemy now. They will take back my citizenship, big crime, very sad.”

    Shane smoothes his hands along Ilya’s calves, rests his fingertips on Ilya’s ankles. “Fuck Wayne Gretzky,” he says. He looks like he can’t believe what he’s saying. Ilya wonders, distantly, if he can get it on tape to play back to himself when things feel particularly bleak. “We can live in exile together. I don’t care. You’re my, my best, my second best hockey player forever too.”

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    Shane decides he has to retire. Ilya, of course, will go with him.

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    “Robby force you to take a break?” he asks when she’s close enough to not have to yell.

    “Yeah.”

    “Me too,” he huffs. “Like he’s my superior or something. Asshole.”

    Samira laughs, bending down to put her coffee down, balancing her sandwich on the lid, and then leans her forearms on the railing, far enough away to still be able to look at the side of his face, but close enough that she feels a little more confident she’ll be able to do something if he… Well. “Should you be sitting over there?” she asks, staring at the slight slope of his nose, the shadow of his eyelashes across on the top of his freckled cheekbone.

    “Probably not,” he answers in a casual tone. “At least I’m sitting.”

    That doesn’t comfort her very much, but she figures there’s no point in fighting him on it, so she turns and sits down with her back against the warm metal, mirroring him. “You want half of my sandwich?” she offers, twisting her upper body to hold it out to him.

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    Bosco would like to make an amendment to the saying "never meet your heroes." He thinks, frankly, that the better version of it would be "meet your heroes, on occasion, so that you can relentlessly mock them when they turn out to be assholes."

    Bosco has the dubious pleasure of sitting in on a classic Horsemen argument over a silly prank that may or may not get Merritt tossed off a balcony. Jury’s still out.

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    30 Nov 2025

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    They figure out that the hologram message is a deepfake in less than two days.

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    The Horsemen realize that "Dylan's" message to them after the Abu Dhabi show was a fake and promptly set out to break the real Dylan Shrike out of prison. Dylan Shrike's first priority, meanwhile, remains the safety and well-being of his Horsemen. All eight of them.

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    28 Nov 2025

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    Charlie's still getting used to the responsibility that comes with being a mastermind and a Horseman, even if he's got the planning part down. One legendary magician already died for him. He's not sure he'll be able to handle two.

    He's especially sure, though, that he won't be able to handle it if his plan gets J. Daniel Atlas killed.
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    Daniel gets hurt when a plan goes wrong. Charlie, June, and Bosco don't handle it well.

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