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    "You know who does have brains, though?” Marco continued. “The Yeerks. Maybe a thousand of them already. A thousand human brains, a thousand slaves, except those slaves can’t even THINK without their masters knowing about it. There is nothing standing in their way except us—did you get that? This isn’t some movie, where humanity’s going to rise up and pull some bullshit trick out of its ass. The Yeerks are WINNING. Did you not see Elfangor get eaten? Do you not understand the stakes? He was coming to destroy the planet because he thought that might be the only way to stop them."

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    09 Apr 2023

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    I'm reading Marco for the audiobook so I should probably save it.

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    Lan Zhan has never been a man of many words. They come few and far between, like tiny pearls to be held and cherished in the palm of his hand, and then stored away to be admired later. It’s with great pride that Wei Wuxian discovers that it is only around him that Lan Zhan speaks the most, to him that he has given the most pearls.

    But even then, conversation for them has always been more than words alone. Conversation, from the moment their gazes first met, has been about the little things. A glance here, a brush of the hand there. For even after everything together, the nature of a man can not be changed, nor would Wei Wuxian ever wish for it.

    Certainly, he thinks he might die if he had to sit in silence for the rest of his life, but he is content to fill the silence with a steady melody of chatter, as if he were the guqin, and Lan Zhan the player. For he would not speak so freely and for such an extended period of time were it not for those gazes, or the gentle strumming of Lan Zhan’s patient fingertips.

    All the same, Lan Zhan is a quiet man, and it is specifically this silence that teaches Wei Wuxian just how many words can be contained in just a single flower.

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    05 May 2022

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    “My lord,” he said, and bowed shallowly. “Are you here to fence?”
    “I—” It is the only thing I have any worth in, Xie Lian thought, but pushed it down with an awkward smile. “I am, yes. And you, sir?”
    “I am, too,” he said, his eye never leaving Xie Lian. “Would it be terribly forward of me to ask you for a spar?”
    “Oh,” Xie Lian said, and then smiled, feeling slightly more comfortable. “I would be honored.”
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    The new owner of Paradise Manor seems terribly interested in Xie Lian, to everyone in the -shire’s surprise—especially Xie Lian’s.

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    21 May 2021

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    Zagreus stops in front of him, head tilted up to look at him. There’s a cut on his face, and without thinking Thanatos reaches out, runs his thumb over it to soothe it shut so at the least he does not bleed.

    Zagreus is still looking at him, quiet.

    “Zagreus?”

    “You came,” Zagreus finally says. He smiles; it makes all the flames that curl around his laurels spark. There is such a soft and tender pleasure in his words. “After all this time.”

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    07 Dec 2020

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    Three times, Jaden Yuki has left. Three instances, where Chazz has thought about him, with a longing in his very heart and soul that he could not articulate to the world. Three times, Jaden has wanted to look back and whisper his sorrows.

    One time, he stayed, and they were at peace.

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    01 Dec 2020