Snailknight



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    Duck, 5 1/2 inches, and self sufficient, has been living in the same house for the last 10 years.

    Stompers come and go, but this most recent one has gotten himself into a bit of a predicament.

    Duck can't... she can't just leave him... even if it means being seen.

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    21 Jun 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 6

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    It's nearly midnight when he receives the message. Filtered through the careful courtesy of an Alcethmeret page, it comes as a simple summons, scrubbed of nearly all the anxiety and urgency he knows the emperor too well to assume is not present.

    There are no details. The emperor knows him too well to assume he'd need them.

    A late night conversation between secretary and emperor.

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    05 Jun 2026

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    “Master! Master Qifrey! Coco’s hurt!”

    Agott’s worried voice echoes from upstairs in the entry hall, carrying down the steps into the kitchen where Qifrey is working.

    “I–I’m ok!” Coco hollers in reassurance, but Qifrey’s hands have already dropped the herbs they were binding without a second thought, leaving a scatter of tranquileaf sprigs strewn about the counter. The tone of Agott’s voice had sent a hot jolt of protective fear through his insides, his heart leaping to his throat, beating fast. He nearly trips over his skirt as he hustles up the stone steps into the living room.
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    Coco gets a nasty boo-boo, and Qifrey helps get her fixed up. Some big feelings come to the surface and they share an emotional moment.

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    Coco accidentally calls Qifrey 'mom' and has a big cry

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    04 Jun 2026

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    “You know,” Olruggio says, roughly. He doesn’t move to take Qifrey’s hand again. “You know. You can’t not know, Qifrey.”

    Qifrey just looks at him. “I do.”

    The rain continues falling.

    (And so Olruggio forgets. And he inevitably figures it out again, because of course he does; and he inevitably chooses to forget again, and again, and again, because his heart is always the same. The story is always the same. Like a tale from under a silverwood tree, like a myth from the days of old, not so much tied by the constraints of the narrative so much as being narrative itself. Antigone must bury her brother. Iphigenia must be put to death. At a thousand turns, in a thousand ways, Orpheus must turn, and he must look, again, and again.

    And Olruggio forgets.)

    There is an old story about a witch and a silverwood tree.

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    03 Jun 2026

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    Qifrey knew of the risks with this procedure. But if, in exchange for his sight, he were to get his future back?

    The choice has never been more easy to make.
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    Aka, a post-canon au in which Qifrey becomes fully blind

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    02 Jun 2026