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    He’s clever, they always said, which really meant don’t trust him. But when Claude pieced apart his walls to let someone inside they were always surprised to find that he wasn’t the snake they’d been expecting. He was ambitious, of course, but ambition in the hands of good men is a blessing, not a curse. And when he described the tenets of his vision for the future it was easy to believe that clever was simply a synonym for kind.

    He’ll betray you, they said, already sitting in his palms, but when he drew his hands into fists to crush them they still bothered to cry out, why?

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    18 Oct 2025

  2. Public Bookmark 11

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    “Sidestep, when’s your birthday?”

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    13 Aug 2024

  3. Public Bookmark 29

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    “He doesn’t waste time, he tackles the man out of the way, he goes down hard, weighs more than Ryker would have thought, and he barely dodges out of the way of his arms before the man can get a hold on him. He rolls off and starts sprinting across the parking lot.

    “Ryker!”

    A name.

    His name.

    He doesn’t have a name at the Farm, just a number.

    He spins around to look at the man.

    And it’s Ortega.”

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    What if Step actually called Ortega when he escaped the Farm a second time?

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    26 Jul 2024

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    Dying is the best thing Emery ever did for theirs and Ortega’s relationship.

    Falling in love with Herald is, ironically, second place.

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    I'm the author of several orphaned works in the Fallen Hero fandom including the vindictively deleted 'Let Me Run This Bi You'. Yeah, I don't have a copy. Sorry to the two people who crawled for it on the Wayback machine. If anyone has a copy (doubtful at this point, but I can hope someone forgot to clear their cache) I'm willing to repost it and orphan instead of delete so people can read it again, if they want. Sorry to everyone who kudo'd and commented on it, but mostly to those two desperate people on the Wayback machine. Me, too, you guys.

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    22 Jul 2024

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    Jean knew, distantly, that California was prone to earthquakes. But knowing and experiencing are two different things, and while he’s become accustomed to the sensation of the rug being pulled out from under him, he is very much unaccustomed to the literal Earth shaking beneath his feet.

    Or, Jean gets a lot of magnets; California gets a lot of earthquakes.

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    07 Jul 2024