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    He hadn’t noticed his frown until it pulled deeper as Hyacine giggled into her hand and he asked, “What?” 

    “It just reminds me of how eager Ica was to see you too. That’s the power of free food. The best way to someone’s heart is always through their stomach!” 

    “Perhaps in the case of poison.”

    “Poison? No no! I meant—like how I train Little Ica with treats! Like, if she comes to me when I call her then she gets a treat. Or people who don’t receive much attention from the chimeras will bring chimeras cookies the Garden. That way, even if they don’t have treats, the chimeras will still be happy to see them.”

    “You speak of bribery.” 

    Her mouth dropped open wordlessly, then closed again as her nose scrunched. “I suppose you could look at it that way.”

    “I understand now.”

    This entire time, Mydei had failed to realise he was treating Phainon like a prized pet. 

    Food trends come and go in Okhema and the newest one, the chimera cookie, is no different. Before it fades back into obscurity, it leaves its mark on Mydei and Phainon’s relationship.

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    “What’s going on here? New training exercises?” Phainon asked in half-jest as he surveyed the chariot race and spectators. 

    “Some friendly competitions in Strife’s honour. A Kremnos tradition.” 

    “Competitions? Yet you’re not participating?” 

    “The host is responsible for overseeing the games and allocating the prizes.”

    “Well… what about me?” 

    “What about you?”

    He smiled so earnestly Mydei was torn between averting his gaze or doing something unwise to wipe it from his mouth. “May I participate? It’s so lively here. The rousing cheers, the spark of competition—I’ve been reeled in.”

    Slowly, Mydei blinked and tilted his head but Phainon’s bright visage was unchanged. 

    Upon the anniversary of Castrum Kremnos’ fall at his own spear, in the shadow of Okhema’s high walls, Mydei hosts the annual funeral games—a celebration of glory and mourning bound up in Strife. It’s an old tradition frowned upon by the city the Kremnoan legion has come to unwillingly inhabit. But a necessary one.

    This year, for the very first time, Phainon wishes to participate.

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    “May I know my host’s name?”

    “Audata of Aedes Elysiae. I live with my husband, Hieronymus, and my son, Phainon.” 

    Aedes Elysiae. Gorgo had never heard of such a place. It must have been beyond the bounds or ambitions of Kremnos. 

    She tried for a smile and playful bounce of the bundle in her arms. “I am known as Gorgo. This is my son, Mydeimos.” 

    She was no longer ‘of Castrum Kremnos’. Certainly not its queen nor an esteemed warrior and not even the lowest of trainees. She was of nowhere. Nothing but a wanderer in exile.

    When Eurypon allows Gorgo to decide the means of her demise, she chooses to accompany her newborn son into the River of Souls.

    Rather than a sea of flowers or eternal battlefield, they wash ashore in Aedes Elysiae.

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    Hayato only meant to adopt a cat.
    Instead, he brings home a half-starved tuxedo stray that sleeps in his bed, follows him from room to room, and watches him with unsettlingly intelligent eyes.

    Hayato has spent years trying to uncover the truth behind the illegal hybrid experiments hidden beneath layers of government silence.

    He doesn’t realize the frightened creature curled up in his apartment already knows far more about the case than he does.

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