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    “You are standing uncomfortably close.” Sandrone’s annoyance was building.

    “I would like to hear how you play.”

    “You can still hear me from the other side of the room. Or the control room,” Sandrone replied, barely keeping her tone even.

    “Hm, yes, I could. But, I think this is the best place to listen,” Columbina concluded with a nod.

    Sandrone’s eyebrow twitched. Keep it together. Snapping at the person paying you isn’t a good idea.

    “Fine. Just be quiet then,” Sandrone grumbled.

     

    The Pianist & Vocalist AU

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    19 Jun 2026

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    “You are sure?”

     

    The Knave has no stake in the former Archon’s choices. Regardless of what happens, the outcome, whether it may be good or ill, will not affect her. But still… to erase a life, to destroy the very essence of a person and let another one usurp their place… It feels damning, sacrilegious even. A mockery to all that was sacrificed.

     

    So she asks, one last time, even though she knows the answer. One final attempt, to save a soul beyond saving.

     

    The former Archon stares back at her with eyes that have long since given up on hope.

     

    “What have I got left to lose?”

     

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    After the trial of the Archon, Furina comes to the Knave with a desperate plea- erase 500 years of memories for a chance at the life she never had. Arlecchino agrees and suffers the consequences.

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    21 Aug 2025

  3. Public Bookmark 41

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    From the moment she stepped back into Okhema, Cipher could feel the weight of Aglaea's eyes upon her, tracking her every move.
    If it was a show Aglaea wanted, it was a show she would get.

    "The Seamstress was almost definitely there, somewhere, her pretty little head overflowing with information from all corners of the city. Hundreds of thousands of threads coalesced at her fingertips, all competing for her attention, and yet it was Cipher who had won it. Effortlessly, thoughtlessly, naturally, the Seamstress looked to her as a sunflower would look to the sun.

    Cipher stepped into the golden light of the window, a cocky smirk playing at her lips. If the Seamstress was going to watch her so obviously, so obsessively, then she might as well make it worth her while, and maybe feed her own ego while she was at it."

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    25 May 2025

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    Oh. So it was going to end like this. Fated to meet her end in some miscreant’s shed, to be ground into a fish burger, stripped of her scales and sold in a can!

    It seems the woes of a mermaid are never ending...

    (The arlefuri Mermaid fic. dressed with angst, marinated in plot, and seasoned with some found family.)

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    31 Oct 2024

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    How strange. One half of her wants to be loved with all-encompassing ferocity, to claim and be claimed and jealously guarded like a beloved treasure. The other half wants to be loved as an individual first and foremost, to have someone proudly champion her happiness and freedom above all. Most days, Falin can’t actually tell which is the vainglorious monster and which is the lonely human, which she should honor and which she needs to bury — but with Marcille, it doesn’t even matter. Because Marcille, wonderful Marcille — she satisfies both so fully and readily without ever being asked. Without ever knowing what an impossible thing she’s done, as always.

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    02 Jun 2024