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    Seivarden was a respected officer once, and now she's a respected officer again, but there was a long space in between. Inevitably, someone someday was going to see Mercy of Kalr Lieutenant Seivarden and recognize the desperate drifter who'd had a very expensive habit and very few marketable skills; she knew that. It didn't make it any easier when it happened.

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    15 Jul 2026

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    "Ghosts that were wont to manifest themselves [...] tended to belong to one of the following (often overlapping) categories of the 'restless' dead. [...] Ataphoi: 'those deprived of burial.' Whatever the circumstances of death, a ghost could not achieve rest without the due funeral rights..." ['Magic, Witchcraft, and Ghosts in the Greek and Roman Worlds']

    On the way to Omaugh Station, Seivarden tries to do the right thing, and Breq tries not to care about what Seivarden is trying to do. Neither of them is sure if they succeeded.

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    15 Jul 2026

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    “You don’t even count as human, and you still want to become an immortal? You’ve missed the optimal time to begin cultivating – what can you become? Even if you muddle along with him, that charlatan Wu Yanzi, he isn’t even guaranteed to want you.”

    Shen Jiu growled, wrenching out of Qiu Jianluo’s grip to hurl an ink stone at him. He missed.

    Shen Jiu saw the change in Qiu Jianluo’s face instantly, the man’s hand rising up and blocking out the glow of candlelight. His towering shadow was Qiong Qi given flesh.

    Shen Jiu’s body froze instinctively as he readied himself for a blow.

    But it never came, because when Shen Jiu managed to look up, all he could see was a man’s broad back swathed in black robes, his grip tight around Qiu Jianluo’s wrist.

    “Qiu-gongzi, what could ever make you think that a charlatan like me wouldn’t want this boy as his disciple?”

    Or: Shen Yuan transmigrates into Wu Yanzi’s body and gets followed around by a feral teenager called Shen Jiu… who is kind of obsessed with him.

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    01 Sep 2025

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    “Would the honorable Mobei-Jun agree?”

    “WHAT!?”

    There’s a loud crash, and everyone’s attention instantly flicks over to Shang Qinghua standing off the side. He seems to have dropped some large platter of something - he should not be doing something so lowly as serving things, he’s not a servant any longer. But it is very typical of him to mindlessly reach out and start doing whatever unfinished tasks he sees before him, grumbling all the while as if someone is forcing him into it. Right now, he looks gobsmacked. Pale and wide eyed and gaping in shock, looking shaken to his core.

    “Marriage!?” Shang Qinghua demands, his voice high and strangled.

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    Several misunderstandings happen in a row.

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    12 Jul 2025

  5. Public Bookmark 72

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    If a starving man, accustomed to ignoring the feasting around him, had suddenly thrust into his hand a perfect apple, of course he would eat it.

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    28 Apr 2025