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    “You’ve got a dinner invitation,” said Felix, two days later, like someone had mailed me a poisonous snake.

    The Duke of Murtagh had left our place in a hurry this morning. I wondered if this foul attitude was the result or the cause.

    “We do,” I said, cautious, ‘cause it had both our names on the top.

    “No, it’s meant for you,” said Felix, “Quite clearly.”

    Kay/Mildmay, Felix/Murtagh. Mildmay and Felix solve another ghost problem. Kay learns how to communicate within his marriage. The Duke of Murtagh visits, and Vanessa Brightmore (née Pallister) negotiates her marriage. And Mildmay finds something for himself.

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    14 Feb 2026

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    “You’re young,” Alex says bluntly. “Younger than me, even, and no one thought me any good until I’d proven myself in battle. And those of us who study the sword have many more opportunities to prove ourselves publicly--you lot are all shut away in your cloister, how would anyone even know?”

    “It’s not like they thought anything of me there either until the first Trials,” Thom says, a touch bitter. “I am so tired of proving myself.”

    “I would be too,” Alex says. “I’d look for something decisive. That’s not to say you have to do what Delia says, of course.”

    “You don’t seem to doubt me,” Thom says, something odd in his voice. He knocks his shoulder against Alex’s, carefully.

    Alex means to use Thom of Trebond to further his own plans. It doesn't turn out that way at all.

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    17 Nov 2025

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    Unit Communication Log:
    SecUnit Two: Atmospheric conditions optimal.
    SecUnit One: ...
    SecUnit One: Indeed.

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    19 Jul 2025

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    A fic told through a game of minesweeper- incredible!!

  4. Public Bookmark 34

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    In some ways, being one of Murderbot’s humans is like adopting a cat, or perhaps like adopting the attitude of a cat or other such pet.
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    This is my SecUnit. I am not afraid of it. It is very knowing, because it watches a great deal; it is a Watcher of All Things. What show are you watching? I want to see!
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    A silly little parody of a short story by the guy who coined the term "robot," inspired by the line where Murderbot says it had trained its humans too well for them to step past it into a crime scene.

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    25 Jul 2025

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    23 Jul 2025