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    “C’mon, it’s a long drive. Give me something to work with.”

    Felix pauses, then unpurses his lips to say, “I’m not fun, I don’t like to talk, and I didn’t ask to be here.”

    “You’re shortchanging me.” Sylvain smiles. It’s a lot of smiling for just under an hour. Maybe he’s not used to company anymore. “I knew that last one already.”

    Sylvain, a trucker, takes Felix on as a reluctant passenger. They figure out their destination en route.

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    27 Oct 2025

  2. Public Bookmark 8

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    The clink of his drink order being set down has Sylvain swiveling back to the bar. He’s breathing weird. Shallow, and uncomfortable. Dying? Maybe he’s dying. Desperate fingers smudge across the cheap crystal; he takes a good sip and prays it’ll fix him.

    It does nothing—not with the movement in his periphery as the man takes a seat at the bar. He does, at least, respect customary etiquette, leaving a stool and a chasm between them. Still, Sylvain wonders if he’ll manage the proximity.

    The winter only ever brings bitterness to Sylvain. Why should this year be any different?

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    26 Jun 2025

  3. Public Bookmark 35

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    On Sylvain's desk there is a bottle of liquor, a quarter drank. More full than Felix had anticipated, which meant either it was a new bottle or he really didn't give Sylvain enough credit.

    It was next to a dagger. A dagger, likely a gift from Dimitri, propped up near his letters. Perhaps Sylvain reached for it when finishing up his letters to his father, a quiet little thought constantly strumming in the back of Sylvain's mind.

    This was a conversation that needed to be had, at some point. Not tonight, however. Tonight, Felix had to be as much of a comfort as he was capable.

    He hoped he was enough.

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    19 Mar 2025

  4. Public Bookmark 60

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    Felix has made his peace with Sylvain chasing after everyone with a pulse—peace, in this context, being redefined as has learned to tolerate the stabbing ache in his gut, to the point that he doesn’t notice it unless he thinks about it too hard, like an exposed nerve you learn how to live with—because he’s always known none of them really matter. It still sucks. It still feels like a kick to the chest sometimes, cracked ribs and short breath. But it’s survivable, because none of them have phone numbers Sylvain has memorised, like Ingrid’s, or birthdays he could recite half-asleep and drunk out of his mind, like Dimitri’s. None of them get to see the way Sylvain smiles when he means it, that crooked thing that slips out on Claude’s kitchen floor at two in the morning, like Felix does.

    (These are the facts of the universe: water is wet, the sky is blue, and Sylvain Gautier will never want Felix Fraldarius.)

    —The Faerghus four play a drinking game (Sylvain’s fault). More truths come out than intended (everyone’s fault).

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    16 Mar 2025

  5. Public Bookmark 6

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    “I’m waiting.”

    Felix’s eyes slowly cracked open and man, if looks could kill, Sylvain would be halfway to hell by now. Not even moving his lips, teeth clenched so hard they could break:

    “This. Was fun.”

    “Aw, now that doesn’t sound very sincere, does it Fe? Why don’t you try again? With passion this time.”

    Felix uncrossed his arms to slam a fist on the table.

    On a quiet afternoon in the Fraldarius summer house, Sylvain and Felix play a game.

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    10 Mar 2025