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    Zenix waited, lips slacked and teeth bared, for her dark stare to shift - for her to twitch or writhe. For her to spring back to life and bolt from his lap; for Garroth to break through the undergrowth and startle at the sight of him bowed in the dirt, drooling upon a carcass. But all that came were the slow, rattling heaves of the canopies overhead, watching him with hollow eyes.

    Spring has arrived, and Phoenix Drop is dying.

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    Some blame fell on the Antivan Crows’ training methods and traditions, but that was not the whole reason. She was a product of the same traditions, and instead of stopping the cycle, she perpetuated it — adding her own generational Dellamorte cruelty to it. There were no gentle ways to train thoughtless weapons to wield knives for the Crows; it was always a sacrifice. In order to take a life, you had to shut down the insides that screamed about morality, the suffering of those left behind, and the need for justification. To switch off those emotions, Crows had always been cruel to their fledglings.

    Caterina invites Lucanis and Rook for dinner. It is time to put all past grievances behind them.

    Chapter 1: female Rook
    Chapter 2: male Rook

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    15 Feb 2025

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    There is a room in the depths of Villa Dellamorte. Dark, dusty, filled with furniture covered in white cloth, hidden away for some half remembered purpose, old even when Lucanis and Illario were children. Now, Lucanis watches Illario’s tall stature, shoulders straight, never slouching, familiar as Lucanis’s own breath in his lungs but the shadow he casts in the room is all wrong. They are too old to be in here. In the ghost room.

     

    While Rook is trapped in the Fade, Lucanis and Illario revisit a childhood haunt.

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    13 Feb 2025

  4. Public Bookmark 22

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    Rook knows what Lucanis’ face looks like, in death. Remembers his desperate scramble the first time he saw him lying against the cold stones of the fade’s landscape, unreactive as he called his name, cupped his face, shook him gently, desperately. The heavy weight of his lifelessness as he pulled his body to his chest, curled shaking fingers into his hair and begged, please no, don’t be gone, don’t leave me, don’t leave me in this alone—

    Rook sobs.

    The sound rips out of his throat like the burst of a dam, a single, horrified gasp as the world around him— cold, dead, empty— presses in.

    ———

    Months after defeating the gods, Rook is still hellbent on pushing away his own trauma to focus on those around him.

    It eventually, inevitably, comes back to bite him in the ass.

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    12 Feb 2025

  5. Public Bookmark 3

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    Something is confusing Morrigan. She figures it out. Eventually.

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    08 Feb 2025