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  1. Public Bookmark 16

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    ”En gardé, monsieur!”

    Verso has a second to register it before he realizes he’s being cornered by three, very serious children. Gustave’s apprentices, to be more precise. Not the threat he first would’ve thought of, but there you go.

    ”What are your intentions towards Gustave?”

    In which the apprentices have had enough of Verso & Gustave’s pining and confront Verso. They might also recruit some help while they're at it, and Verso suffers.

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    17 Jun 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 7

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    It was always burning since the world's been turning-

    Firefighter saves man. Man becomes EMT. Man becomes hot. Firefighter becomes an idiot.

    Sciel is not paid enough.

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    16 Jun 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 35

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    Belle Époque Paris, 1913. Verso Dessendre is very good at being wanted. It is, in fact, the only thing the world has ever been willing to pay a ruined aristocrat for, and he has made his peace with that.

    Then Gustave Virlogeux — celebrated conductor of the Opéra, one hand of flesh and one of steel, immovable as a closed door — catches him breaking into the rehearsal hall to play a piano in the dark. Instead of calling the gendarmes, he offers Verso a real chance and an honest wage, and commits the truly unforgivable sin of refusing to be charmed.

    This is a story about a maestro who won't play along, a brat who won't behave, and a grand piano that did not consent to any of this. It is also, underneath all that, a story about being wanted for the whole of yourself — scars, ruin, and all — by someone who refuses to let you sell the one true thing you've got.

    Or: a maestro who conducts in bed exactly as he does on the podium, a pianist whose every seduction technique fails spectacularly and repeatedly (until it doesn't), and one grand piano that did not survive the experience.

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    15 Jun 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 5

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    Technically Verso doesn’t need to sleep—he might die from sleep deprivation but he’ll always come back. Though deathsleep isn’t as restorative as you’d think, Verso tells himself it satisfies his sleep debt anyway.

    (It really doesn’t.)

    Or: Gustave is a werewolf, and somehow that's not even the weirdest part of Verso's long nightmare of a life. What's even weirder is that Gustave insists on taking care of him--like now, when Verso is stumbling on the cliff's edge of exhaustion and Gustave is more than willing and more than able to get Verso to sleep.

    If it involves some extremely adventurous, shapeshifting sex, well, that's just a bonus.

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    13 Jun 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 86

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    In Lumière, soul bonds are not gifts - they are obligations.

    Verso Dessendre has spent years perfecting the art of staying untouched. Once a prodigy, now a soldier, he's learned that wanting anything is dangerous. His hands are scarred. His reputation is carefully constructed. And he has no intention of letting anyone close enough to see what lies beneath.

    Gustave Virlogeux is the Academy's most reliable engineer - the one who fixes what the system breaks, who never asks for anything for himself. His prosthetic arm glows with borrowed Chroma. He's useful. Essential. Alone.

    When destiny pairs them together, neither is prepared for what their connection will cost—or what it might save. As Lumière's bond ceremony approaches, they—along with Verso's sister Alicia and Gustave's ward Maelle - will discover that the system they trusted might be more fragile than anyone realized.

    A story about two people learning that sometimes the most broken things fit together in ways nothing whole ever could.

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    11 Jun 2026