Esherymack

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  1. Public Bookmark 2

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    In the darkness and despair of Commorragh, Helena von Valancius is only relieved to have Heinrix returned to her. A heavy vow is made and in turn she needs him to understand that she will not let him go again. Not for her sake.

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    10 Jul 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 25

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    Pasqal Haneumann has known neither affection nor regret, each deemed a flaw by the Machine God’s sacred design, yet finds both returned to him in the form of one whose presence was never meant to inspire such deviation, nor to bear meaning beyond utility. Upon coming face-to-face with Kassard von Valancius—a Rogue Trader whose presence bore the weight of authority and the quiet terror of inevitability—the likelihood that he would remain unchanged was statistically negligible. For what awaits him now is not choice, but a most painful uncertainty: the kind of torment reserved for those who were never meant to feel, and yet can no longer claim to be untouched.

    Kassard von Valancius was not born to command, but to survive—first as a daughter of war, then as a weapon honed by sorrow and silence alike. What the Munitorum dismissed as softness became strategy. What her mother feared as empathy became the exaction of haunting levels of manipulation. Beneath her Rogue Trader’s seal lies not inheritance, but a history written in ash, circuitry, and the hands of a custodian who refused to let her be discarded. But it was Pasqal Haneumann who marked the fault line—he was never meant to love, and she was never meant to be loved.

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    10 Jul 2026

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    It started off as a ridiculous, blood-boiling nickname. Mouse. Out of all the teasing titles the Colonel had tossed Edward's way, that damn nickname had no right to bring him any sort of comfort.

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    13 Nov 2025

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    Dust still swirls in plumes around them, and he can still feel the shifting of debris as it settles. He sees his friends in only outlines, but their movements are clearly panicked and he still can’t really think but it scares him. His head hurts. His thoughts are like drifting clouds.
    Edward wished the lightheartedness could have lasted, but it never did. He always found a way to smother it.

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    Edward will never let somebody get hurt when it could be him instead. Roy Mustang just wants to keep the kid from killing himself before he's even a teenager.

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