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  1. Public Bookmark 52

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    “You’d spoil your children rotten.”

    Columbina laughed, light and musical. “And you’d make an excellent co-parent. You’d fix their toys and tell them bedtime stories full of formulas.”

    “I would not.”

    “You would,” she teased, flicking a dot of blue paint onto Sandrone’s cheekplate. “And you’d pretend you didn’t enjoy it.”

    The Kuuhenkis swirled around them then, each glowing a different hue due to the paint dyes — blue, gold, rose, and green — forming a halo that painted their faces in color. Columbina leaned back, eyes still closed– Sandrone missed seeing her eyes, but she did not say this outloud but there was one unforgettable thing about her former colleague, her expression was always serene.

    “This,” she whispered, “is what it must feel like to be human. To make a mess, and call it love.”

    Sandrone looked at Columbina for a long time, a small smile tugging on the corner of her lips — then quietly returned to cleaning the last jar of dye, her movements slower now, gentler. And when a Kuuhenki clumsily dropped a droplet of color onto her metal palm, she didn’t flinch this time. She let it stain.

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    05 Feb 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 54

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    An alternate universe where Dottore didn’t feel the need to slay Sandrone personally.

    But of course, she still takes the blow in Lumine’s place.

    How well does Columbina take this? Not at all.

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    19 Jan 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 18

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    Three months after the world is saved, Zosia shows up at Carol's door.

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    15 Jan 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 90

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    For only a second, and maybe she imagined it, Carol thought she saw a glimmer of the most human expression Zosia had worn yet: annoyance.

    “And you’ll still be working on reversing this?” Zosia asked.

    “We wouldn’t be very good heroes if we didn’t, now would we?”

    or: Carol and Manousos have found a way to (maybe) undo the apocalypse. They need a willing(?) participant to help their cause.

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    15 Jan 2026

  5. Public Bookmark *

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    Turn me back. Please, please, Carol. Please, I want to go back!

    Carol reaches for Zosia, then doesn’t.

    “I don’t think that’s possible,” she says.

    Or: One more take on deplurb’d Zosia for your reading pleasure :)

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    14 Jan 2026