Cottage_gore



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  1. Public Bookmark 32

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    “He hasn't saved - you know what, never mind.” Occtis sighs, pinching the bridge of his nose. “Julien has a particular set of people he’s very protective about. I happen to fall into that category because he needs me to get back at my family. That’s it.”

    “Get back at your family.” Thimble repeats flatly. “The same family he let get away right now to burn himself for you?”

    Or: Thimble realizes Julien isn't as nonchalant about Occtis as he'd like to claim. Whether or not *she* is, is absolutely besides the point

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    Azune is supposed to be pretending to do reconnaissance for Harondus Einfasen.

    obviously that's the only reason he's staring at Julien Davinos across the ballroom.

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  3. Public Bookmark 46

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    [Spoilers for C4E31.]

    “You embarrassed me,” Occtis hisses. “You embarrassed me today.”

    The boy is standing over the bed, gaze fixed on the mattress, seeing nothing as his clever mind fixates on some unknown fact of Julien’s prior conduct.

    Julien tries to play the day’s hectic events back through his mind, but their flight from Dol-Makjar was a fearful one plagued by paranoia, so much so that he finds his recall hampered. He’s sure he was an asshole to everyone all day, but he doesn’t remember aiming it at Occtis, at least not on purpose.

    Waiting for Occtis to volunteer information tends to involve more patience than Julien has handy, so he’d might as well ask. “When did I embarrass you?”

    Occtis still doesn’t look at him. “You picked me up like a sack of grain in front of all of our colleagues.”

    Of all the things to have a fight about right now, Julien feels like this isn’t the one he’d personally pick, and a stupid part of him wants to say so. An even stupider part of him wants to point out that that was last night, not today.

    He manages to hold his tongue on these two points, but he can’t keep his ire from his tone. “What did you expect me to do? Leave you behind?”

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    A few weeks earlier, House Tachonis had been wiped from Aramán in a single night, and every last member of the deranged bloodline had been butchered.

    No one knew who—or what—had been powerful enough to commit such a slaughter. Some claimed the family had finally lost control of the undead army they had been secretly raising and that their own creations had turned upon their masters.

    Others, bolder, speaking in hushed tones and only after making certain they could not be overheard, whispered of an estranged son returning to exact his vengeance.

    But those stories were invariably met with scorn, since the idea that the only Tachonis born without sorcerous talent could have annihilated his entire family was laughable.

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    The Seekers return to Dol Makjar, a city divided. Hal is similarly torn as he welcomes home the shadow that once was his brother, and the mask that once was his friend.

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