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  1. Public Bookmark 3

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    Silence for a moment, but for the slow drip of Dankovsky's hair against the floorboards. What was it that Dankovsky had written, about this lighthouse and its supposed visions? Alternative selves, reflected worlds…

    "It's a love story," Artemy says, finally. "Of a sort."

    "I find," Dankovsky replies, with a rueful twist of his mouth, "that miracles so often are."

    Almost a year after the defeat of the Sand Pest, Daniil and Artemy investigate a new miracle together.

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    07 Aug 2026

  2. Public Bookmark *

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    One year later Dankovsky returns to Town-on-Gorkhon, paperthin and worn. Pushing aside his confused tangle of feelings for his old colleague, Artemy resolves to diagnose the nature of Dankovsky's malaise--and the cause of his return.

    Only in the old fishing hut outside of town is it safe, quiet enough to talk, and free from the memories that plague them both. But they can't escape the threads in their blood. As visions rise to the surface and pull at the tides of their veins, a choice must be made. The wound cannot be left to fester at any cost.

    (An after of sorts.)

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    08 Dec 2024

  3. Public Bookmark 63

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    And when all is said and done, when there’s no more blood to wash your hands of, who do you still need to look in the eye? Who will look at you?
    When you’ve taken the flame of magic and put it out with your own fingers, whose home can you walk into, head tall?
    Diurnal ending (a choice of love, like any other) and what’s in the silence that follows.

    (added informative notes at the beginning about the deeply self-indulging nature of this work where i ask you to pretend i’m simply picking up where i’ve left off.)

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    12 Nov 2021

  4. Public Bookmark 3

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    If Yulia’s ears weren’t deceiving her, there must have been sentimentality in Aglaya’s voice. There was so much unspoken between them, and how could they possibly speak about it now? Now, when pestilence threatened the community Yulia had come to love, the place she’d found refuge, after….

    Well, it wasn’t the right time to bring those things up. It had been years, the hatchet long buried. They were just old friends now. Two words that held a multitude and yet encompassed hardly anything that had passed between them.

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    Aglaya stays with Yulia after the events of the plague.

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    17 Jun 2021

  5. Public Bookmark 14

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    It turns out Daniil's roommate has a twin. Too bad he wasn't prepared for that.

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    24 Feb 2021