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    He thinks to himself: I cannot do this anymore. Tests the thought on his tongue without speaking it aloud. Thinks: I'd rather die than live like this, with everything I want at my fingertips and none of it allowed to me. In this of all places, he can be allowed honesty. So: Does he mean it?

    Qifrey had never even considered taking on apprentices, at first. But navigating a life outside of the Great Hall forces him to consider what he wants to do with the time he has left.

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    Qifrey runs his hands up Olruggio’s legs, massaging them through the stockings as he goes. The thin barrier between them is hardly helping Qifrey retain a grasp on his composure. If anything, the illusion of chastity makes him more reckless. He kisses Olruggio’s calves, and drinks in Olruggio’s soft sighs. He kisses the backs of his knees, and savors the stifled squeaks of surprise. He kisses the soft skin of his thighs, which push against the tops of the stockings like they’re trying to burst free, and nearly drowns in the low, drawn out moan of a man trying not to. He kisses up the length of Olruggio until he’s slotted between his spread legs, desperately hoping Olruggio will wrap those legs around him, trapping him in place, and desperately knowing he mustn't.

    Olruggio accidentally comes home wearing a maid dress. Qifrey lends him a hand.

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    It isn't until Easthies's palm cracks like lightning against his cheek that it occurs to Qifrey that no one has ever hit him before. Not like this. Not in the face. Not, he thinks with a wry grin and blood on his teeth, that he can recall.

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  4. Public Bookmark 18

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    "Aye," came Olruggio's voice, behind him. "Did you need something, Qifrey? You could've called."

    "And wake everyone up?" He shook his head. "Are you occupied at the moment?"

    Olruggio snorted. "As far as I'm concerned, I've got nothing on my plate tonight. Come."

    He reached for his hand, and Qifrey let their fingers twine together. His heart leapt into his throat.

    Ah, he thought. So it can be like this.

     

    or: qifrey & intimacy, in a series of vignettes

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  5. Public Bookmark 78

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    There it was, that thing Qifrey did, where he offered a piece of himself wrapped in observation about someone else, like a gift hidden inside a gift, and you had to decide whether to unwrap the second layer or pretend you had only received the first. Olruggio had spent half his life learning to read these offerings and in doing so he had become the foremost scholar of a language spoken by exactly one person in all the world.

    "I'm stubborn because someone has to be," he said. "You'd float away on your own mysteries if no one kept you tethered."

    "Perhaps." The maddingly sad smile again. "Perhaps that's so."

    In which Olruggio brings tea to Qifrey's study on a damp evening and finds him working in the dark again, the staff out and the fire dying.

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    06 Jun 2026