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    “Can you show me?” Qifrey asks, feigning just a little of his frustration. Running his fingers up and down his own neck only feels marginally less stupid than Olruggio lying isolated beside him, his want palpable.

    “Show you?” Olly’s voice is thready.

    “Yes,” Qifrey replies, tilting his head to look at Olly until his gaze is met. “I’ll follow you.”

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    or; olruggio shows qifrey the best ways to get off. nothing, at all, goes wrong.

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    13 Jul 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 70

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    Olruggio is dying of worry. Qifrey is dying in general. Hey, did you know the shrubs down in the marshwoods make for some great tea?

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    09 Jul 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 58

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    There is no cure for the silverwood, but that doesn't mean there isn't any hope. Olruggio helps Qifrey through a new treatment to tame the parasite inside him.

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    Olruggio starts like he always does, “I’ve got you. You’re safe. I forgive you.” He punctuates each statement by running his nails gently across Qifrey’s scalp.

    The silverwood tree sprouts.

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    07 Jul 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 58

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    Something, equal parts wariness and weariness, stirs in Olruggio’s eyes whenever Qifrey makes some reference to the future — when he indirectly promises a tomorrow, a next week, an ‘after your commissions are done’. It’s the subtlest thing, a flicker, a spark; someone who knew him less well might not pick up on it. But Qifrey knows Olruggio as well as he knows himself, and he can hardly in good conscience begrudge him his flinch of cynicism. Not when it’s wholly his own fault for having put it there.

    Fool you once, shame on me. Fool you twice, still shame on me. Fool you thrice… well, if it’s any consolation whatsoever, I was fooling myself most of all.
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    The night Qifrey returns to the atelier for good after his wandering days — old promises kept, new promises made.

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    06 Jul 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 62

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    Separated by choice and bound by immeasurable grief, Qifrey and Olruggio attempt to find the edges of themselves through a year and a half of letters, until the silence becomes too loud to bear.

    OR: six seasons of letters, of lies, and of a few truths that wormed its way in.

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    06 Jul 2026