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  1. Public Bookmark 16

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    “Look,” Olruggio's voice finally shattered the stillness, “we don't have to talk about it. We don't have to put a name to it.” He took a step toward Qifrey, swallowing the space between them in a single stride. Qifrey's heart hammered against his sternum as Olruggio's eyes searched his lone iris.

    Olly slid his hand around the back of Qifrey's neck and tugged him closer. It wasn't a forceful tug, it was more of a suggestion — one that Qifrey followed without hesitation. It had always been far too easy for him to fall into Olruggio's orbit.

    If Qifrey was the moon, Olruggio was the tide he pulled with beckoning hands; the tide he would drown in gladly with a smile on his face all the while.

    “Just one night. That's all I will ask of you,” Olruggio pleaded, practically begged.

    or The part in which they come together for a single night of pleasure.

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    06 Sep 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 35

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    It's been almost a year since Qifrey was freed of his curse. During a cold winter night, he seeks out warmth in the embrace of his Brightest Star, and reflects on the months that had passed.

    The Silverwood was burned away, and Qifrey is finally free, no longer doomed to repeat the cycle. Or is he? Turns out, that in order to do so, he first has to learn how to stop surviving and start to live.

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    05 Sep 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 45

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    Three months earlier, another cluster of commissions had kept Olruggio working late enough that Qifrey had become all too needy. Olruggio had told him, in a moment of exasperation, that if he was going to get like this every time work interfered with their sex life, he might as well make him something to keep him occupied.

    Qifrey had taken him seriously. Worse, Olruggio had taken himself seriously.

    Or: Olruggio comes home unexpectedly in the middle of the night after being away for some time and discovers exactly how much use Qifrey has gotten out of his rather inventive substitute.

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    04 Sep 2026

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    And of course there is an instant, after that first warm touch of Olly’s lips upon his own, where Qifrey feels a terrible tingling sensation within him and remembers his parasite. Where Qifrey remembers his silverwood, the tyrant that rules his body with an iron fist, and thinks, with a sinking sense of foreboding, that he is risking its awakening and his own impending death with this decision.

    And then Olly’s hand flies up to bury itself in Qifrey’s hair. And then Olly’s arm wraps around his waist, and pulls him in flush against Olly’s chest. And then Olly’s tongue sears hotly across the seam of Qifrey’s lips, and Qifrey parts them for Olly’s entrance with a moan.

    I love you, he thinks, and he remembers who the real tyrant is. The silverwood may one day take Qifrey’s body, but there's only one being in the world who rules his heart.

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    On the last night of the Golden Eve Festival, Qifrey and Olruggio share a bed.

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    02 Sep 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 33

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    It happens again, the way it always happens again and likely always will, when it's the two of them and something like peace hangs in the air.

    The details may differ but the dance is the same, and the dancers.

    Qifrey is weak, or maybe Olruggio's gravity is something no one could escape. He is lucky, and he is cursed, and he is afraid and excited.

    Of course this is how it goes.

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    It's a quiet night at the atelier, and Qifrey can't hide his love. Olruggio doesn't even try. (It's not the first time, but it could be, from a different perspective.)

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    01 Sep 2026