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  1. Public Bookmark 7

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    "How many times have they hurt you? How many times have they betrayed you? How many times have they lied to you? Treated you like an animal? Stolen that which was dearest to you? Questioned your every word? Laughed as they dragged you through the dirt?"

    During one of countless attempts to track down Knives in the decades after the brothers parted ways, Vash meddles in the wrong man's business and gets dragged off the map.

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    16 Apr 2026

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  2. Public Bookmark 5

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    In the wake of what Luida is calling the “arm incident” Vash isolates himself. She’s watching years worth of carefully maintained trust and care shatter in one fell swoop. The boy, once happy, talkative and hyper is now a solemn thing that prefers spending time in bed or curled in the Thomas stables. Luida sighs as she peers through the glass door into the stables where their birds have all migrated to the little crater Vash has carved out for himself. He lies in a ball of red fabric in synthetic straw, back against his favorite of the flock. Wendy is the Thomas Vash has ridden for a few years, she’s as protective of and loyal to Vash as he is to her. Even now she has her neck curled around Vash’s shoulders. 

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    07 Apr 2026

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  3. Public Bookmark 70

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    Mydei grabbed the antiseptic and dabbed it on a cloth like he knew what he was doing. He did not know what he was doing. “Tell me if it hurts.”

    “I’ll scream.”

    Mydei presses it to the wound.

    Phainon screams.

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    07 Apr 2026

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  4. Public Bookmark 85

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    All he can do is look upon the distant sky, hoping; praying for help to arrive. He reaches out his hand for the sun as he gets dragged deeper and deeper and he’s going to die. But he can’t – he can’t give up. The Fool keeps walking, even when approaching the cliff-side. Just before he passes out, he can see someone arriving from beyond the sky.
    Finally, he thinks, finally.
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    In the final act, upon the curtain-call, they will all dance around the fire, singing revelry for their Deliverer and the promised tomorrow. Losses are a constant on the flame-chase journey, and yet, on the last stage, they regain something they couldn't remember losing. See you again tomorrow, and the world will welcome a new dawn.

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    06 Apr 2026

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  5. Public Bookmark 53

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    In the names of Talanton and Kephale, the accused must be allowed to hear the “people’s voice” prior to the execution for a chance at a reduced sentence and possible pardon.

    Phainon volunteers to receive Anaxa’s punishment.

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    06 Apr 2026

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