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    When Baby finds out he and Zoey are signing on to the same K-drama, he’s ecstatic—until he realises he’s going to be playing the younger brother of Zoey’s love interest, that is.

    Alas, demons aren’t known for their patience, and the Saja Boys’ maknae isn’t a big fan of sitting to the side and watching Zoey kiss someone else.

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    Jester hesitates, and it's like Caleb can feel her heartbeats in the air between them, transmitting doubt, transmitting fear. He wonders if she's afraid of what he will think when he hears what she has to say, or if she's afraid of how it will sound to her own ears when she voices it out loud, or if she's afraid of something else — like he is, like he has been for...some time now.

    "Do you think," she repeats quietly, avoiding his eyes, "that there are some things it would be wrong to forget?"

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    "Jester is dead. Everyone is talking and Yasha and Beau are dragging one of the beds out into the middle of the room as Fjord walks in, Jester’s body limp in his arms, and Caduceus is pulling flowers and herbs out of his bag and arranging them in a circle on the floor, and Nott takes another gulp from her flask, and none of it matters because Jester is dead, because they were all too slow or too stupid or too careless and they didn’t save her."

    Caleb makes an offering.

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    "Aww, man, see, now he's never gonna do it again," Beau complains, leaning back and crossing her arms. "He's gonna be all self-conscious."

    "I'm just saying it was a good look for him! He should try it out more often!"

    "This is Caleb, Nott, we're not gonna get anywhere giving him fashion advice, you know better than that — "

    Caleb ignores them. He walks around the table to Jester, touches her shoulder lightly with a few fingers. "Can we speak outside for a moment, please?" he asks quietly.

    She jumps up. "Of course!" she says, as bright as ever, and his heart constricts.

    He is going to have to say goodbye to her, and it has to be today.

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    “You have a very charming daughter,” he’d said when they’d first met. And then, “Your daughter is so charming,” when they’d met again.

    Which was barely the half of it. Compliments spilt forth from him with such ease it made her wonder. Not that she was in the business of prying. And not that it mattered what he felt if her daughter did not reciprocate. Still. Once a person develops the talent for seeing when a man is in love, it is difficult to ignore. She saw love on his face when he looked at Jester. Heard it in his voice when he spoke of her. The cogs of evidence turned without fault.

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