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    Jayce Talis is a professor in training assigned to learn under Professor Viktor, the man he’s meant to replace. A transition. A simple passing of the torch. A job that was never supposed to be anything more than that.

    But then Viktor laughs and Jayce wants to hear it again. Then Viktor brushes against him in the hallway and Jayce feels it for hours. Then Viktor coughs into his sleeve and Jayce notices how long it takes for him to catch his breath.

    Jayce wasn’t supposed to get attached. But he does. And now he is completely in love with a man who is already slipping away.

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    Viktor is dying.

    This is nothing new. He’s been dying since he was born, since he took his first acrid lungful of Fissure air, and he accepted his premature expiration long ago. Everyone has to die anyways, right? All the Fissure had done was move up the finish line.

    That doesn’t make it any easier.

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    Or, Viktor never tries Shimmer, and his death is the slow, painful erosion that everyone said it would be.

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    He pictures the funeral sometimes.

    He pictures someone he doesn’t know saying Viktor’s name wrong. He pictures screaming in public. He pictures stealing the ashes and keeping them in a protein powder container because it’s the only vessel big enough. He pictures lying in those ashes like a widow bird. He pictures baking the ashes into bread and feeding them to pigeons in the park.

    He pictures swallowing them himself.

     

    Or: When Viktor chooses a quiet death, Jayce learns how to love him to the edge of the end and carry what’s left through the sad art of letting go.

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    Everyone and their mother knows that suppressants aren’t foolproof. They’re not a one size fits all like the pharmaceutical companies tout them to be. Some meds are better for omegas than others, but price and availability limits their usage. It’s a whole thing that Robert has learned to live with.

    So, when one of the members of Z-Team is going into a rut because of a mysterious drug, the suppressants aren't as effective as they should be. Robert decides to hole up for a day in hopes he’s only going into pre-heat and not a full blown heat.

    What he gets is help from an alpha that he never expected.

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    “Floremesis,” the apothecary eventually muttered. He looked up, his expression pitying. “Flower petals; you’d best see a priest, lad. Nobody but God can help you.”

    A shock ran through Henry like a cold wind, drawing his attention with a snap of focus. “Flower petals?” he repeated incredulously, his throat suddenly dry. “What, like Mary Magdalene?”

    He’d never really believed the stories of saints and martyrs coughing up flowers. That was something that happened a thousand years ago, the words inked in Latin scripture on illuminated pages, not to now, not to him.

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    A KCD1 hanahaki au

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