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  1. Public Bookmark 25

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    He thrusts the sword forward again, hilt-first. At this angle, it would only take such a simple movement from Blade to plunge it through his chest. "If you want it discarded so badly, do it yourself." Prove it, he manages not to say. Prove that's what you really think, because I don't believe you.

    This time, Blade takes it, even if only to sheathe it immediately. He squeezes Dan Heng's hand when they make contact, in an attempt at reassurance.

    "It's okay," He says, strangely tranquil. "You shouldn't have to care so much."

    "It's not my choice," Dan Heng replies. "But I would choose it."

    "…I cannot stop you."

    "No."

    Or: Dan Heng slowly learning Blade over the course of 4.2

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    18 Jun 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 97

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    Ren hears his voice, its soft cadence somehow able to break through the twisted whispers flooding his mind.

    "We can trust him", Dan Heng says.

    He blindly follows that voice, turning his head towards it, and when he opens his bleary eyes it takes Ren several seconds for his gaze to focus and for Dan Heng's figure to be more than just blurry spots of familiar colors. But when he's finally able to make up Dan Heng's worried face it feels as if Ren had been drowning all this time and Dan Heng is his first inhale of fresh air that he desperately needs to live.

    How everything changes between them and what it means to Ren after centuries of a seemingly endless chase.

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    17 May 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 58

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    Yingxing was an artist. Blade is a weapon.
    Yingxing was an artist. Blade can't even type.
    The spark of a craftsman refuses to let itself die.

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    Blade struggles with his inability to create like he used to, and Dan Heng shows support the only way he knows how.

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    17 May 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 82

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    And because Dan Heng is cruel, he does not allow Blade the peace to come to terms with any of this. Instead, he lowers Cloudpiercer into an idle stance- and the spear looks wrong too, even though it felt the same against the monsters’ flesh in Blade’s periphery- and says, in a level voice, “it’s been a while.”

    That’s the breaking point- not his strange new horns, curved and resting against the curls of his hair like a crown, not the fact that even after his boots have settled back on the ground he still stands barely taller than Blade, not even the way his eyes, flecked with the same shade of gold as his horns, look straight into Blade’s without their familiar hesitation. It’s his voice, budding with something horrifyingly close to empathy. To genuine interest.

    Blade is briefly overrun by the feeling that he doesn’t know this person.

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    03 Jan 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 72

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    "Blade has long hair."
    March laughs. Caelus snorts. Dan Heng's eyes widen slightly. She's not wrong. Blade's hair probably goes down to his waist. But he's hardly a good candidate for March's braiding experiments. He'd kill her.
    "He lets me braid it."

    Or, Dan Heng learns Blade is very different when he's not actively experiencing symptoms.

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    13 Dec 2025