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  1. Public Bookmark 7

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    “How do you sleep at night?”

    Wolfwood scowls at the garden. He’s sitting on the big porch watching Vash and Jessica and a handful of other trouble makers toddle around in the squash patch, hunting bugs. The sun is going down, allowing for a break in the heat. Wolfwood has been lounging here for a few hours, and Midvalley has come to bother him. The other man slipped up close to him, leaned on the rail much like Wolfwood is. He watches Vash squawk with laughter and dance away from the large beetle that one of the kiddos thrusts at him. He’s lovely in the dusk. Dark hair pulled back in a slipping ponytail, in a sleeveless shirt his skin sun burnt and freckled. His scars glitter in the suns, pink-silver lines. Sunglasses perched on his nose, a smile, real, spread across his face.

    Wolfwood chews a toothpick flat.

    “Poorly.”

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    26 Jun 2026

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    Olruggio has a headache. Because he has a headache, he isn't paying enough attention to the girl's primer spells.

    This has consequences.

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    Agott yelps as he throws himself over her, but there’s no time to be gentle, there’s no time to get to both girls. There’s only protecting the one closest and begging, pleading, that Riche is fast enough to do what he cannot.

    “RICHE, CLOSE YOUR CIRCLE!” He screams.

    Please, please, let her still be on the right page, please--

    The thought leaves him with a hiss, not through mouth but through skin, the high-pitched screech of boiling water meeting flesh, followed by his own wail as his arm erupts in pain.

    And Olruggio of the Torch burns.

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    24 Jun 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 35

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    There are times when Qifrey wishes that Olruggio would use him.

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    Qifrey fantasizes about giving instead of taking. Olruggio trusts him.

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    21 Jun 2026

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    “Can you show me?” Qifrey asks, feigning just a little of his frustration. Running his fingers up and down his own neck only feels marginally less stupid than Olruggio lying isolated beside him, his want palpable.

    “Show you?” Olly’s voice is thready.

    “Yes,” Qifrey replies, tilting his head to look at Olly until his gaze is met. “I’ll follow you.”

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    or; olruggio shows qifrey the best ways to get off. nothing, at all, goes wrong.

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    02 Jun 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 36

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    “Is that 𝘷𝘪𝘢𝘨𝘳𝘢?"

    “𝘛𝘩𝘢𝘵,” Wolfwood slapped his hand over the packet, causing Vash to jerk back, “is our last resort. We’re not touchin’ that yet.”

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    Vash's body has some hangups after finally getting Wolfwood back from the grave. Luckily, Wolfwood has a plan. Except for the fact the plan involved Vash, so it was doomed to spiral. Not that either of them are complaining.

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    24 May 2026