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  1. Public Bookmark 12

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    The issue with making a go-bag at 12 years old is that the things you think you’ll need as a kid are not in fact that useful when you get whisked away at 20. 

    It started with clothes, her small child clothes in no way fitting her grown body, especially a few puberties later. Luckily, between Van and Marya she’s been able to make do.  

    It also means she doesn’t have her meds. 

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    or, olethra has joint issues and is far from her parent's drug farm. monty and maxwell help

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    15 Nov 2025

  2. Public Bookmark 2

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    A pair of feet are rustling against the grass, bare, digging its heels into the dirt. Camilla Hect, in the sweet touch of her flesh, in the striking pair of clear gray eyes that he adored, is singing, moving her legs in a one-step front, one-step back, one-step front, one-step back, raises her right hand, spins on her heels—she’s singing, “Ayonha, lawn’ al-baḥr, lawn’ha, ḍhoīril-qamr’, ayonha, lawn’ al-baḥr, lawn’ha, ḍhoīril-qamr’..."

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    07 Nov 2025

  3. Public Bookmark 60

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    Two boys, each guarding a secret, must face the challenge of growing up and becoming men.

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    09 Jun 2020

  4. Public Bookmark 88

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    Pyrrha has too much to worry about with her shitty apartment, her shitty job, and her supposed partner who's never even home, to care about John Gaius anymore. She's done owing him, and being owned by him; as soon as Gideon finishes this job they're both done and she'll be free forever.

    And then John drops his daughter off on her doorstep.

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    UNKNOWN NUMBER (2:17 p.m.): just found out I'm a DAD! A and M not having it. Can I drop her off at yours for a bit?
    Pyrrha (2:19 p.m.): what the fuck
    Pyrrha (2:52 p.m.): No.
    Pyrrha (3:07 p.m.): john we have so many GUNS

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    29 Oct 2025

  5. Public Bookmark 12

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    "Nona, do you remember how old you were when you came here?"

    Nona gave Harrow a withering expression that caused Gideon to stifle a chuckle. Without a word, it was as if she was asking, ’are you stupid?'. She held up her hands, wiggling all of her fingers. She was ten when she'd had a seizure. Ten when her mother died, leaving her alone in a nightmare she hadn't woken up from.

    Harrow felt a stab of pain in her heart upon seeing that weak glare. It was far too young of a face to pretend to be tough, too innocent of a gaze to have seen that much pain. She blinked against the pressure forming in her eyes, determined not to cry.

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    Gideon and Harrow stumble upon a loose end from Drearburh — in the form of a child. Camilla and Palamedes realize language development is easier than they expected. Nona loves her small, strange family more than anything.

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    25 Oct 2025