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    Buddhists believe when someone dies, their soul is held for 49 days between death and rebirth. Because a soul without a body in a transient state can better accept the law of truth, it can gain enlightenment and move on to the next life.
    -Cheondojae wikipedia entry

    Day 11
    Rumi isn't keeping it a secret. Not really.

    She hasn't announced to Mira and Zoey that a dead demon's pets have adopted her, but she's not hiding it.

    Mira comes in holding mock-ups of the new shirt for Comeback and is met with Rumi reading a magazine on top of a blue tiger.

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    22 Feb 2026

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    Eden has always been Simon's home, until they left him for dead on that station. Sure, they had been harsh sometimes but what was the alternative?

    The Consolidation of Iron? The people who wanted to rip out Eden's tree and take their kids?

    At least Eden was peaceful, at least Eden didn't lie.

    Choking, gagging on his own blood, he realized how much he wished that was true.
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    Eden had long used children for war, they were easy to train, and easier to indoctrinate when they were born and raised in a nursery. Eden was more than fine with the knowledge they were sending kids to die, after all, they all became soil?

    But what COI had laws to stop trials/convictions for minors? How could Eden get around that?

    Simple: If your calendar years are half that of the COI, your 15-year-old becomes 30, and you have “righteous” anger aplenty to point right back at the COI.

    If a few kids have to die to make ends meet? Well, It's just bigger than us.

    (OR I wanted to write a fic where Simon is actually just a really fucking scared and traumatized child, because Mark you hurt me with that ending so name Simon will get hugs.)

    Title: Machine Gun Sun by Barns Courtney

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    17 Feb 2026

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    “Are you trying to tell this story for yourself, or for other people?”

    Fiddling with one of her belts, Quinn frowns. “Other people, right? That’s kind of the point of the Carer Van, helping out the people of the Gladlands how we can?”

    “You know that you can help people other ways,” Poppy says, but Quinn’s already shaking her head.

    “Yeah, but with this, it’s- if I tell people about it, I can prove that no matter what happens, it can’t keep you down, you know? Sure, you might be the only person to resort to cannibalism, and you might eat the man that you love even after he begged you not to, but that doesn’t mean it’s over for you!” Quinn knows that her eyes have gone wide, nails digging into her biceps where she holds onto her own arms to keep her steady, and she can’t bring herself to look at Poppy and see whatever expression she might have as she watches. “It’s hopeful, right?”

    There’s a pause, and all Quinn can hear is how loud her breathing’s gotten. “Darling, I think you’re just trying to convince yourself.” 

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    16 Feb 2026

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    Hugi hasn’t been dead nearly as long as they were alive. 

    And not that they’re dead now, exactly, because the act of having died doesn’t necessarily mean that you’re still dead—dead is a present state of the body, rather than a thing that happened in the past, which is to say the event of death, and usually those two do go hand in hand but not always, as proven by Hugi’s case.

    Anyway. In the time since her death, time in which she is not exactly dead but perhaps something not quite alive, Hugi has come to realize that her pre-death interest in death was not exactly the norm.

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    13 Feb 2026

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    The vex grinned down at him, the expression just as sharp as it had been the evening before. He took a step away from Grian, raising his hands up in mock surrender as he looked almost on the verge of laughter.

    "Calm down, little sheriff, I'm not going to hurt you yet."

    Grian froze. Every single defence system he had ever created in his mind went up all at once, and he folded his arms in front of him as skills he'd spent years without using suddenly bubbled back up to the surface.

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    On the verge of losing his sister, Grian, an ex-sheriff with a past filled with mistakes, is forced to go on a journey with a vex who wants him dead, but when past enemies begin to get closer Grian has to decide whether or not to let go of what he holds most dear before it's taken away from him.

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    12 Feb 2026