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    "I just—I should be thankful we haven’t seen this side of him on home ice, eh?”

    Ilya frowned at the comment. “What do you mean?”

    “Shane’s captain voice is very different from his teammate voice.” Wyatt shrugged simply. “He’s a lot more proactive here. And louder. He sees everything and he doesn’t hesitate to point it out. But at home, he leaves that to you and Wiebe and Bood.”

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    Shane has some scars from his time with Montreal that still linger. It takes Ilya a hot minute to stumble onto the fact, and just a little longer to confront it head on.

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    Alone in a hotel room in Denver, after a mediocre game they won no thanks to his distracted playing, Shane sits on the edge of the bed and chews on his thumbnail. He and Ilya have made a promise to each other, too. But Shane doesn’t quite know where to place this promise in the series of promises that have made up his life so far.

    [A reimagining of Shane and Ilya’s big fight and subsequent conversations about mental health in The Long Game. Shane reckons with his childhood, his relationship to food, and how to decide to be brave for someone you love.]

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    Kaveh blinks up at the ceiling, her mind drifting ever so slightly. She thinks over the events that lead her to this moment, and how different her life might’ve been had she chosen not to make a single choice. If she’d never agreed to that project back in the Akademiya, she wouldn’t be here. If she hadn’t agreed to work on that building for Dori, she wouldn’t be here. If she hadn’t gone drinking at the Tavern that night, she wouldn’t be here.

    If she hadn’t gotten drunk a few nights ago with Alhaitham, she wouldn’t be here.

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    “Tell me,” Anaxa continues, “in your mind, what lies beyond the sky?”
    “Tomorrow,” Phainon answers without thinking and golden eyes bear down onto him. Anaxa shifts beside him.
    “The new dawn,” Phainon continues, even though he realises he’s not making coherent sense, “deliverance.”
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    In the next cycle, the title of world-bearing falls onto someone else and in the absence of this duty, Phainon wonders where he fits.

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    30 Oct 2025

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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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