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  1. Public Bookmark 43

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    The spear butt struck the side of his face, knocking him to the smooth marble floor. He was tired enough to lie there, gasping, until one of the guards hooked their hand into the loop of his arms where they were bound behind him, and hauled him back to his knees.

    “We will try that again,” said his interrogator. The man was wearing the full panoply of the Imperial guard and an incongruously friendly smile. “What is your name, barbarian?”

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    23 May 2026

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  2. Public Bookmark 7

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    “Oh, very good, my lord,” said Cliopher, and unconsciously looked up into the eyes of the Sun-on-Earth. He had known, everyone knew, that the Lord Emperor's gaze could blind. He had broken one of the great taboos.

    In canon, the taboo against eye contact was gone. But what if it was only weakened?

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    07 Jun 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 3

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    I was so thoroughly outside what you were expected to be, I hardly knew how to speak. Eventually I managed to get out something, because Cliopher looked at me with so much empathy I knew he understood.

    My initial, slightly mad thought, was that the Moon Lady came down and assaulted someone at every lunar eclipse in the Vangaveye-ve. But no, if that had been true, Cliopher would have warned us, and the entire party would not have seemed surprised.

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    07 Jun 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 2

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    My brother gave me that choice. He was everything I had ever hoped for in a husband, everything I had ever dreamed of in a brother, everything one could desire in an Emperor.

    I could only stammer, again, that it was his choice, that I was dutiful. I did not know how to say _no_, it was not something anyone had deemed necessary to teach me.

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    07 Jun 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 6

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    If you've read my story Touch - this is Gaudy's POV of That Ceremony - (Chapter 12) — including some things Cliopher doesn’t see.

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    05 Jun 2026