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  1. Public Bookmark 19

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    Verso shifts on his feet, jaw tensing. He’s sticking his neck out for the stroke of embarrassment, but perhaps that doesn’t matter. Not when it’s Gustave laughing at him. “Well, I’m asking.”

    Gustave looks over at him now, demanding attention. Verso can only give it. “Asking me what?”

    “Are you going to make me say it?” Verso asks, quieter, tilting his head.

    “Could I?” Gustave looks curious. “Make you?”

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    13 Feb 2026

  2. Rec 51

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    Verso is rinsing out his spare shirt in the river when he hears crunching footfalls on moss. He continues his idle work, which really was little more than an excuse to let the rattled Expeditioners stew over their situation in peace. The steps pause somewhere behind him.

    “Sneaking off already?”

    A man’s voice—it has to be Gustave, Maelle’s guardian. Strange to think it’s the first time he hears it.

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    12 Feb 2026

  3. Rec 19

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    He hums, looking down at his dangling feet.

    “Jumping’s no good. Breaks your bones and leaves you gasping.”

    “That’s …” Gustave stops behind him. “Hm. Joking about death is less fun with you.”

    Like a good contrarian, Verso raises a finger in the air.

    “I’d argue it’s more fun with me. Lived experience, and all that.”

    “That is a choice of words,” Gustave chuckles sardonically. A pause, as the breeze fills the space between them. Ruffles through Verso’s hair like a friend. “How many ends have you met, then?”

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    12 Feb 2026

  4. Rec 3

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    Verso smiled at her, and he felt ill. "We all do things we don't want to sometimes."

    No Expeditioner is starving on Verso's watch.

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    11 Feb 2026

  5. Rec 41

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    Theirs was a family of strong wills. It was frustrating, at times—Clea did recognize the irony. The draw of sculpture was in the satisfaction of molding clay in just exactly the way she knew it should be molded. Even painting couldn’t give her that same control. But outside of the workshop, no one listened to her, Alicia least of all. They listened to Verso, of course; he’d spent his painting lessons daydreaming and come out the other side with a honeyed tongue. Clea could mold clay, bend metal, paint any image she wished exactly as she wished it. But by the time she was old enough to realize talent and dedication weren’t enough to bend the world to her will as well, it was too late.

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    Three conversations Clea and Verso have about their sister.

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