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    Hands go around Wylan’s neck three times in his memory, at varying degrees of official strangulation. He wonders if with each time, he became more separated from his body, or more forced to reconcile with it. Either way, he’ll try to keep all that mess locked away under the surface, hidden away from Jesper especially because he can’t stand to lose him. Shouldn’t he have known it would all come crashing down?

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    A few moments of Wylan’s life, three of which where he was being choked, and the night where his secret—his father, his past, and seemingly everything else—is revealed.

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    19 Dec 2025

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    Once, Kaz had said that Wylan thought like a lockpick. Wrong. Wylan thought like a clock, ticking, ticking, counting down the seconds he had left to live.

    Breathe, he told himself, told Jesper, as the world spun and the canal waters swallowed him under: six minutes. He could survive without oxygen for six minutes.

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    Or, a Wylan character study: the one in which Wylan meets a lost prince, Jesper writes a song, and Kaz loses a chess match.

    UPDATE: now with a pdf / printable version || formatted epub version!

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    19 Dec 2025

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    How much is one boy’s life worth?

    How much is a broken timeline worth?

    At 14 years old the Hero of Legend is skipping back and forth through Labrynna’s history to save an Oracle.

    At 9 years old the not-yet-Hero-of-Time is set to die and become the Fallen Hero.

    These events overlap in time but not place. The existence of one boy hinging on the death of the other.

    The Chain are split between them.

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    09 Oct 2025

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    Time is a paradox of Hylia’s own making, and this is how she deals with it. Linked Universe fic, Time-centric.

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    13 Sep 2025

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    “What do you think you’d be doin’, if you weren’t a Hero?” Warriors asks him, laying the question out before him and the stars and the fire that crackles.

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    “I don’t know,” he blurts, unhelpfully. It’s a lame answer to a loaded question, but he can’t find it in him to even say the word travel; it leaves something bitter at the back of his tongue, something heavy in his gut. Some part of him worries, immensely, about what that means.

    The question goes unanswered, really, even in his head. And it haunts him for months.

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    Where infinitesimal things take up the space of a universe.

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    11 Jul 2025