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  1. Public Bookmark 12

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    knap: a crest, a hill; to chip or break by a sharp blow, as flint

     
    Gray found him exceptional. Stroking the boy’s filthy curls off his forehead, he asked, “Do you know what’s about to happen?”

    Declan didn’t flinch, though it took him a moment to swallow his mouth wet again. “Will you tell me who’s paying you? This seems elaborate.”

    Gray shook his head. “I can make you like it, if you want,” he offered.
     

     
    the doves are all in at least the sixth circle of hell; please check an overall content warning in the endnotes & individual specifics in the pertinent chapters.

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    18 May 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 60

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    Ronan gets drunk at the JFK Chili’s. There’s an elf and anaphylaxis.

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    18 May 2026

  3. Public Bookmark *

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    Adam has a weird flight home.

     

    This doesn't stand alone--read Ronan's POV first.

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    18 May 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 10

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    He’s not being rational. He’s not being fair. He also doesn’t care. How could he do this?

    Doesn’t he know he’s Adam’s? Adam hasn’t been there to reiterate that he’s his. That’s Adam’s fault and he’s going to fix it.

    He practises a speech on the drive and as dawn of Saturday morning breaks he reaches the Barns. There’s a lump in his throat. Home home home.

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    During a break up Adam learns that Ronan has slept with someone else. He can't control the jealous thing inside.

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    03 May 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 20

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    On the night he attained his Black Robes, when Arram Draper had planned to take the name Numair Salmalín and flee Carthak - and his increasingly unstable emperor and lover, Ozorne - forever, he instead chose to stay. Numair Salmalín became a lost figment of his past, someone he now knew he'd never become, not in this life. Devastated by years of acting as Carthak's battlemage, Arram obeys the twin leashes of love and duty to capture for his emperor the family of an enemy king: Queen Thayet of Tortall and her two eldest children, Roald and Kalasin.

    Daine Sarrasri, who owes Tortall his mother's life, enters a pact with a God to save his home from Carthak's incursions, trading his freedom for the crown prince's life. He's willing to risk everything to save his people, pitting his wild magic against the terrifying Gift of one of the most powerful mages in the world. Never once does Daine suspect that his captor is just as caged as he is - and never once does he suspect that, before the end, he'll be willing to risk everything to save Arram too.

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    07 Jan 2024