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    “My lady,” Thimble says in a carrying voice, clear as a bell and bold as a warhorn, “I ask your permission to shelter at the Golden Orchard.”
    “Thimble,” Lady Royce proclaims. Shocked whispers ripple out from the center of the camp. She lays a hand on the crown of Thimble’s head, a queen blessing one of her subjects. “You will always be welcome in your home.”

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    Maya’s voice does not shake. “My lady, you have my condolences for the loss of your husband.”
    The forest path is silent, save for the rustling of the branches above. The few knights that were well enough to join Maya Davinos on her mission are too disciplined to shift uneasily, though they watch the Barrowguard accompanying Lady Royce with ill-disguised curiosity.
    “Maya,” Aranessa says, not wavering but clearly wanting to. “Maya, I’m sorry.”
    That won’t do at all.

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    Did you make it out of the fire? One of the whispers tap-tap-taps like a woodpecker on her skull. Are you sure? Maybe you’re a ghost. Check! Check now!
    “The lady by the sea,” Ophelia manages, feeling the would-be stake burrow deeper into her body, the gentle hand of Death stroking her hair. Her fingers smear blood on the window of the taxi, shapes swirling in her mind.
    The White Queen will know what to do.

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    “There,” Dream-Bolaire says fondly, as blood wells up and spills over the fabric of his shirt as if it’s always been there, waiting for Hal to see the stain. “Doesn’t that feel better?”
    “No,” Hal denies, loud enough to wake himself up.

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    All knew their rank, their place, and the value of that to their lives. Our blades were of different ken, but our purpose was clear and defined. On the field, in the battle, I command.
    From "Rank and Role in Victory."

    In a little shack near the Redcliffe docks, Evelyn Trevelyan falters.

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    The empty space beside him is just the right size for her, or even for Julien—
    To him she is the world in its entirety; he forgets Fang, forgets the rope around his wrists, forgets everything but the sight of his lady, the starbursts of frost crawling up from her collar to glitter on her skin.
    “Husband,” she growls. Her warm, open face is shuttered and cold.
    “Wife,” Fang says, wistful.

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    No matter how hot the water, or how many layers of fire-warmed quilts she wraps herself in, or how many hot bricks they put in her bed, Aranessa cannot chase the chill away.

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    Occtis wonders distantly if she has ever done this before, offered this. He thinks it's very unlikely. Julien doesn't care about his reputation or his life, but Aranessa cares a great deal about both.

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    For years, no one speaks about it directly. They simply develop new etiquette surrounding Aranessa’s circumstances: Julien’s father, along with all of the adult vassals and some of the servants of the family, begins wearing a new bracer with easy fastenings on his ungauntleted arm.
    Hours and hours he spends in her company, drinking in her attention like a flower drinks the sunlight, guarding her from all danger with a glad heart—but she never pulls Julien aside.

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    A hand clamps over his mouth, uncompromising and final.
    “No, darling, not like that,” Bolaire murmurs kindly. “I’m here, I’m here. Be good for me, Hal, and live.”

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    When he woke up and saw the ceiling of the Dol-Makjar tenement he’d lived in for the last eight numb years, Casimir thought: Right. There’s an afterlife, it’s shit, moving on. And he rolled over and went back to sleep.
    It’s not the afterlife.

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    “I’m not doing this for me,” Thjazi says, spitting on the dusty ground. “Most people aren’t as selfish as you are. Three visitors. One chance. Or we’ll be brothers, down here in the dark.”

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    He secrets the scraps away in a box, a private indulgence, and does not look at them unless he’s adding to the collection. It is his own pet mystery, this unknown murderer haunting his city. She is a puzzle to solve. She is his puzzle to solve.

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    “Running around with this kid—you’re lucky it was me. He’s not an open book, Julien, he’s an open door.” The smile curling at the pale mouth is condescending. The use of his first name is presumptuous. And the way the hair stands up on the back of Julien’s neck, the shiver of absolute disdain that rolls through him—there is only one wayward, unnatural spirit that this could be.
    “You.” He snaps his teeth around the word, almost wordless at this, this impossibility. It’s yet another wrong the world has done to him.
    “Me,” Thjazi Fang mocks.

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    Occtis Tachonis falls out of his body.
    Again, and again, and again.

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    In the starlight, the mourning veil looks silver. The steel links are cold against Aranessa’s lips.

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    “Stop watching me,” she snaps one night, and he looks a little surprised as he unfolds from his spot in the shadow of a crate. People have been walking past him all evening—she makes a note to check the Pale Guard rotations. If they’re tired enough to miss an entire man brooding by the campfire, they’re too tired to fight.
    “I—sorry,” he mutters. “Didn’t realize.”

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    On the Isle of Glintshore, the Everlight does not answer.

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    A good portion of the Inquisition's diplomacy is at all times tied up in reacting to unexpected events.
    One such event: the Inquisitor's fondness for Yvette.
    (Or: the end of the Inquisition, in three parts.)

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    There are the things you want, and the things you get. Any crossover between the two, while lovely, is unreliable and temporary at best.
    And yet, when it comes to Percy...

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