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  1. Public Bookmark 22

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    There are always assassination attempts but there is no one who quite loves humanity as much as Eva Stratt.

    [Or: Five assassination attempts and one that succeeded].

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    21 Jun 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 90

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    “Oh, it’s a way for humans to tell each other they’re taken. To remember,” I say, popping a bunch more gummy bears into my mouth. Rocky makes a disgusted sound and I smile as I chew. “It’s just a nice way of showing they have someone they committed to.”

    Rocky freezes. I don’t notice for a good few seconds, not until I get the pressing sensation that he’s staring at me, his lack of eyes irrelevant.

    I turn to face him. He’s jittering, something like shaking from excitement or anger, I’m not sure.

    “Rocky?” I ask.

    Grace have ring,” he points, and oh no.Grace have mate? Why Grace no say!?

    I hold up my hands before he can get too excited, though I can already hear a familiar sound, a repeating joyful and confused song start to escape from him.

    “No, no, no!” he freezes again. Deflates, a little. I sigh and run a hand down my face. “It’s… complicated.”

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    14 Jun 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 84

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    The first time he feels the terror, he doesn't understand why. As he barely hangs onto consciousness, the soft silicon presses against his face, enveloping his nose and mouth. The spark of terror catches fire in his chest and quickly spreads across his body. It ignites a screaming inferno within his skull. He forces his eyes open. Everything is red. There's shapes above him. Pure oxygen fills his airways, stale and clinical and familiar and wrong.
    Grace's memories of his unwilling medical sedation and forced sacrifice return, vivid and violent. Later, on the journey back to save Rocky, he has night terrors. The thin lines between consciousness, unconsciousness, memory, and nightmare blur.

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    14 Jun 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 16

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    Rocky’s first night watching Ryland Grace sleep, compared with Eva Stratt’s last.

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    09 Jun 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 24

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    Grace,

    I am writing this because the alternative is continuing to have conversations with you in my head.

    The conversations are becoming irritating. You remain just as argumentative in imagination as you were in reality.

    The world survived.

    I assume that is the first thing you would want to know.

    Stratt writes to Grace

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    06 Jun 2026