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  1. Public Bookmark 22

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    A boy, OLRUGGIO, lies in a pile of scattered paper. Another boy, QIFREY, sits beside him. QIFREY is crying.

    QIFREY: You don’t understand. (He touches the crown of OLRUGGIO’s head.) You don’t understand.

    OLRUGGIO: …

    QIFREY: Or maybe…

    OLRUGGIO’s breathing is soft. QIFREY looks DS.

    QIFREY: I loved your spell.

    OLRUGGIO shifts in his sleep. QIFREY looks back down at him.

    QIFREY: (Whispering.) I love your spell.

    OLRUGGIO’s hand twitches in his sleep. QIFREY keeps watch over him.

    Blackout.

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    A two-act play on the ways we grow, and how it happens.

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    24 Jun 2026

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    Olruggio wrapped his arms around Qifrey’s waist and pulled him close. He rested his chin on Qifrey’s shoulder, warm and real and solid. Qifrey returned the gesture, his eye sliding shut. He let out a breath. They remained that way for a long while, leaning against each other. This could not ease Qifrey—he’d managed a delicate balance that allowed him to indulge in these small ways while retaining his ever-present fear—but Olruggio’s weight became heavier and heavier as he relaxed into it.

    Qifrey could do these things for Olruggio; he could take care of him, though it would never make up for everything that he had done.
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    Qifrey and Olruggio build themselves a home. The days pass in the closest thing to domestic bliss that Qifrey can manage. It cannot last.

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    12 Jun 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 78

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    Qifrey, most days, had a hard time looking directly at Olruggio. If he looked right at Olruggio, he’d see the golden tassel, innocently attached to the point of Olruggio’s cap, and his stomach would twist until he felt like he was going to hurl. He bounced on the balls of his feet, suddenly feeling uncertain, because if Olruggio was the one crying it’d be even harder to look at him.
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    A few months after they had challenged the Tower of Tomes, Qifrey happens upon Olruggio crying alone in his room. Qifrey is terribly out of his depth. He tries anyway.

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    12 Jun 2026

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    For as long as Qifrey could remember, he’d never properly understood the ferocity with which others felt this sort of thing. He’d reasoned that it was simply that he could not entertain it; true pleasure, and the kind of comfort that he imagined should come with it, had always been far from his reach.
    Except, Qifrey could have it now, if he wanted. Qifrey felt quite certain that Olruggio would entertain it, if asked in earnest; his evidence lay in a decade’s worth of stolen glances.

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    Free from the affliction he's carried with him since childhood, Qifrey realizes his lifelong struggles with desire run deeper than a curse. Olruggio meets him in the middle as best he can.

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    12 Jun 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 42

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    Qifrey works up the courage to ask Olruggio if he wants to spend New Year's together. Alas, it's never so straightforward with these two!

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    11 Jun 2026