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  1. Public Bookmark 1

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    She has a nightmare where Dylan wakes up and stares blankly at her.

    "Who are you?"

    Jesse wakes up in a cold sweat, chest squeezing the way it does when she's scared sometimes. She tiptoes into Dylan's future room with her blanket wrapped around her. The silence and the dark is worse than her room, but she is too scared to turn around to the equally dark and silent hallway. So she climbs into Dylan's bed, curls up around the empty space where Dylan isn't--where he should be--and cries like she hasn't done since she was eleven. [Mind the tags.]

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    16 Jan 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 5

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    The switch from subconscious understanding, to conscious perception of meaning is a difficult one, but Lodi has always had a knack for languages. And Drifter is a willing teacher.

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    10 Jan 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 33

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    If Angel calls for him, he'll step in.

    He will. He's not fucking heartless. Velvette called him a doormat earlier and she's fucking wrong, he just knows when to pick his battles, and this is a real boundary he will enforce. Vox isn't allowed to break Val's things.

    Angel just has to call for him.

    A shrill scream cracks in the air and Valentino flinches, half jolting towards the motel door, before realizing that it was just the storm. Fucking scream rain. He worries the tip of his thumb at the junction between his phone and the case, fiddling with the blunt plastic, resisting the childish urge to chew on his nails.

    It's fine. He's being stupid.

    Or: Vox leaves Valentino to pick up the pieces of his latest brainwashing session. Valentino takes Angel home.

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    10 Jan 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 2

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    Tergiversation, def;

    - Evasion of a straightforward action or clear-cut statement.

     

    I am not hunted by a rival. I am not hunted by a man.

    I am hunted by legacy.

    If this is fatherhood, it is indistinguishable from war.

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    01 Jan 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 2

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    In the depths of the Dark Age, two Ghosts discuss their Lightbearers.

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    31 Dec 2025