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    No one knows what Soap is.

    It is, in theory, a simple question and answer. Ghost, however, knows how difficult that simple back-and-forth can become when information has the power to kill - his identity is a secret for the men he fights beside, for his own safety, for the country he serves. A simple question, what’s your name, is a game of mystique for every vampire when it inevitably comes calling; but vampiric name traditions are well known. No one knows his name, but they all know he’s beholden to it, that any who whisper it will call him home. They know why they don’t know his name.

    No one knows what Soap is. And no one knows why.

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    "Close now. Remember the rules?" Ghost talks loud to be heard, but his voice rumbles low and deeper through him than the engines and their repetitive noise, an edge there that Soap can’t put his finger on, reminiscent of how he sounds when Price tightens their leash.

    "There are no rules," he echoes their earlier conversation, but relents as Ghost narrows his eyes. "Forty-eight hours. I'm late, I fail. I'm caught, I fail. I die to some random animal attack or 'cause I break my ankle, I fail and ye won't come find me. That about it?"

    Soap has some things to work out. Ghost is happy to help.
    Neither is prepared for just how far they'll go.

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    A stubborn lock of hair gets tucked behind Malfoy's ear twenty-six times. Harry only counts because what else has he got to do.

    Homework, Hermione's shrill voice sounds in his head. Oh, Harry, you have so much homework, you're behind on everything, what are you doing? Did you really come back for eighth year just to spy on Draco Malfoy again?

    It's a good question. Twenty-seven, now.

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  4. Public Bookmark 54

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    A lurch in his stomach, like the moment of dark surprise when he misses a step going down the stairs. It soon turns into a gnawing sensation, a memory of hunger that seems to be there always, although Hans has since always had enough to eat. Hunger for touch. For Henry. For their desperate fumbling in his borrowed bed in the fortress. For more time together, despite the busy days that followed them in the Kuttenberg region after the siege, and then returning home to plan this, their great escape, their last chance.

     

    Rattay, Vienna, Sofia, Constantinople, Alexandria, Jerusalem. Hans and Henry on pilgrimage to the Holy Land on borrowed time, through six cities, in six states of sin and sanctity.

    Chapter six: dust from the holy sepulcher / absolution / jerusalem

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    In Bohemia’s heart, two men beg the wolves mistake their moans for psalms and don’t sing their names to God.

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    29 Jul 2025