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    Reading order is thus:
    The Enemy of My Enemy (plot)
    In Spite of Spite (plot, very short gap between previous work)
    Collar Day (fluff, large gap between previous work)

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  1. Public Bookmark 90

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    Have I mentioned that I fucking hate the Corporation Rim?

     

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    In which Gurathin goes undercover, Murderbot goes with him, and absolutely nothing goes right.

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    While visiting Preservation on a new contract with some of her family, Tapan notices a familiar face.

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  3. Public Bookmark 27

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    “Wolfwood,” Vash whispers. He shakes his head without taking his gaze off of Andy, who’s dropped his head. “It’s fine.”

    Wolfwood shuts his mouth, though he doesn’t look happy about it. Vash isn’t sure he could ask for that anyway. When Vash rises to his feet, Andy lifts his face again, tears streaming off his cheeks. He’s grimacing, bared lips and clenched teeth, and for all the fury in his expression, it’s obvious what he’s feeling first and foremost is the pain.

    Even if it wasn’t obvious, Vash knows exactly how he feels—has suffered through the same emotion every day for the past one hundred and fifty years, so he’d be able to identify it regardless.

    “You killed my mom,” Andy whispers.

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    Vash and Wolfwood get involved in a feud that has nothing to do with them, as they always do. Lives are saved, but not all of them, and a child ends up orphaned, leaving Vash grappling with both his guilt and the remembered grief of when it happened to him.

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    13 Dec 2025

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  4. Public Bookmark 15

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    I found the room in the facility easily enough. It was one of many. Identical little cells with a bed pushed against one wall and hygiene equipment against the other.

    There was no one else being held here. I made sure. Leaving some poor fuck here to die of starvation or run out of power was not something I intended to do. It could hold maybe twenty-five in total, but it honestly looked like it was on its way to being decommissioned.

    That was probably why they'd stashed Gurathin here. They didn't think that Preservation Alliance would even know where to look.

    Luckily, Preservation Alliance had me.

     

    Written in response to the mention in Network Effect of drugged augmented humans, and subsequent discussions in New Tideland.

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    08 Dec 2025

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    Wu Ming had not been warm in a long, long time.

    As a child, he had lived in a drafty hut with a mother who would not hold him.

    As a youth, he had shivered on the floor of his God’s temple, dusting his towering statue and pretending the marble was as warm as Dianxia’s arms had been.

    As a soldier, he had lain dying on a battlefield, cold creeping in as his heart desperately pumped the hot blood from his veins.

    As a ghost, he had been nothing more than a weapon, a tool for his God. It had not been his place to feel Dianxia’s heat.

    Today, Wu Ming woke up warm.

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    Hua Cheng reverts to Wu Ming, because I need them to get closure.

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