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  1. Public Bookmark 41

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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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    17 Jun 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 31

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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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    13 Jun 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 10

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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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    09 Jun 2026

  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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    07 Jun 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 79

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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

  6. Public Bookmark 30

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    Trudging home after the sun rises again.

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    Or: Batesian mimicry & Kirbyan mimicry; sons & fathers; the person you love & the person who loves you.

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    04 Jun 2026

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    His fright at the thought that Coco might have been in danger when he woke up was heart-stopping. The feeling he had when he thought he’d forgotten one of the simplest spells in his collection was….something else. Like a vice around his throat. A garotte of terror.

    Olruggio can't claim to be the picture of perfect health and wellbeing, but things are getting strange. He's forgetting stuff - stuff that he really shouldn't be forgetting. And he doesn't know why.

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    03 Jun 2026

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    “You know,” Olruggio says, roughly. He doesn’t move to take Qifrey’s hand again. “You know. You can’t not know, Qifrey.”

    Qifrey just looks at him. “I do.”

    The rain continues falling.

    (And so Olruggio forgets. And he inevitably figures it out again, because of course he does; and he inevitably chooses to forget again, and again, and again, because his heart is always the same. The story is always the same. Like a tale from under a silverwood tree, like a myth from the days of old, not so much tied by the constraints of the narrative so much as being narrative itself. Antigone must bury her brother. Iphigenia must be put to death. At a thousand turns, in a thousand ways, Orpheus must turn, and he must look, again, and again.

    And Olruggio forgets.)

    There is an old story about a witch and a silverwood tree.

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    03 Jun 2026

  9. Public Bookmark 28

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    Who had decided to be so cruel as to offer him this—an imitation of the body he should have had, only for it to be fleeting? To rip it from his hands in the same breath?

    (Qifrey thinks it must be some type of retribution. To be given something only for it to be taken away is a cruelty he knows well enough to inflict; a hat and a glyph, a glyph and a hat.)

    Qifrey does not expect his rut to return so soon, rare as it is.

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    02 Jun 2026

  10. Public Bookmark *

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    Olruggio didn’t think Qifrey liked physical touch at all, but now that the curse is gone, the white-haired man immediately decides that Olruggio’s personal space is his personal property and he will be burrowing into Olruggio's ribcage, thank you very much.

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    02 Jun 2026

  11. Public Bookmark 35

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    "Erase it. Qifrey, you have to erase it, all of it, do it now while you still—"

    "No."

    "You promised me—"

    "I know what I promised." He was half-blind and half-tree and irrevocably finished, and the sound of Olruggio begging him to take his memories was worse than anything the silverwood had done to him or would yet do. "I'm not going to do it."

    In which the silverwood has pierced his lungs and Qifrey tries his hand at truthfulness with Olruggio. He hasn't got much practice, but Olruggio has always been willing to wait.

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    01 Jun 2026

  12. Public Bookmark 66

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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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    01 Jun 2026

  13. Public Bookmark 56

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    Qifrey knows how this goes. Qifrey knows he should pull away. Qifrey's always been a coward.

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    28 May 2026

  14. Public Bookmark 33

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    Olruggio and Qifrey, the morning after.

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    28 May 2026

  15. Public Bookmark 66

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    Let him have his good time, Qifrey thinks, and, conjoined with that thought: he'd have more of them, after all, had he not thrown his lot in with yours.

    Always the one hand, then the other. Qifrey would say he's used to it, but then it wouldn't work, would it?

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    28 May 2026

  16. Public Bookmark *

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    Olruggio barks a laugh, then Qifrey does—something, hits the right spot with the right pressure and Olruggio groans instead. It's mortifying, really, but Qifrey just does it again, harder, and Olruggio goes slack under the touch.

    "Ah, hell," Olruggio croaks.

    Qifrey offers Olruggio a massage.

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    28 May 2026

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    27 May 2026

  18. Public Bookmark 76

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    It’s stupid. It’s incredibly stupid, Qifrey knows this. But he couldn’t bear it anymore - the image of his dearest friend, of his body sprawled out, limp and fragile and unaware. The bodies that pile up, the vial of tears that are used and refilled - he cannot bear the repetition any longer, the sensation of hurting Olruggio.

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    Alternatively: Qifrey leaves the Great Hall. As he encounters people on his journey, he’s nudged back to Olruggio’s side.

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    27 May 2026

  19. Public Bookmark 29

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    It's impossible to see the stars from so deep under water.
    That's one of Olruggio's justifications for his actions, at least. The Great Hall is as suffocating as it is lovely, and if Qifrey can hardly bear it on a good day, he's sure to attempt another escape in his current mood.
    Well. That's fine with Olruggio. As long as they're together. As long as he can keep them both safe. As long as he has an opportunity to show Qifrey the beauty of life on dry land, and the constellations above.

     

     

    (TLDR: Two preteens do their very best to get themselves killed. Enjoy. <3)

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    26 May 2026

  20. Public Bookmark *

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    "You don't have to wait up, by the way," Olruggio tells him. "I'm spendin' the night at Hiehart's. Should be back by tomorrow afternoon."

    Qifrey rejects Olruggio for the first time and deals with the consequences.

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    24 May 2026

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