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  1. Public Bookmark 23

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    Grace was sixteen when her mom pulled her from school. The school she’d been at for three months, the longest stint that had ever lasted; she hadn’t made a friend yet, but there was a boy, and Grace was fairly certain he was going to ask her to prom soon, and—and—

    —and Alyssa dropped her off at Uncle Leon’s, in the late summer of what should have been the best year of high school yet, for an entire month.

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    Teenage!Grace has her hot girl summer. Late 30's Leon, on mandatory leave probation and already at rock bottom, learns just how much further he can sink.

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    15 May 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 15

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    All Nyxie wanted was a warm place to sleep and a steady meal. What she got instead was an infuriatingly kind hunter who keeps scratching behind her ears like she's just some housecat. She isn't... right? As she settles into her new role as a hunter's housekeeper, she finds herself drawn to him in ways that make her tail fluff up and her heart stutter. But humans and Palicos don't... they can't... right?

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    14 May 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 14

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    A young hunter is shipped off with his palico partner to join the research team at the Wycademy in Bherna. His work will consist of assisting field research, as well as slaying any dangerous monsters proving too much of a problem for the scholars. But, as time goes on, he begins to see his small cat-like friend in a different light, and perhaps even begins to see her as more than just a friend.
    Join newly minted hunter Arland in his journey as a hunter.

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    14 May 2026

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    She didn't think of mom's twisted face when the knife ripped her throat. She thought of the blur in navy blue careening through the burning chapel to hatchet her pursuers in the head.

    She didn't think of her nails splitting on the floor as the Girl dragged her to certain doom. She thought of the muzzle flash, the ringing in her ears, the steely eyes, and the revolver—heavier than a small child—slipping through the bars as he armed her with the most dangerous thing he owned.

    She didn't even think of Emily, and the monster she'd been twisted into. She thought of his voice, his apology, his sympathy for every loss, every heartache that only existed because people like Zeno and Victor walked this cursed earth.

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    Grace Ashcroft survived the ARK, released Elpis, and foiled a bioterrorist plot. Now she just has to figure out how to sleep, how to walk through a parking garage without sprinting, and how to raise a newly sighted nine-year-old—all while the man who sat with her in the dark keeps showing up in every crack her trauma left behind.

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    13 May 2026

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    Grace is not used to it. Leon Kennedy, unarmed. Lacking guns, hatchets, explosives and tactical gear. It’s like her brain saved a profile picture, her mental image of Leon defined by their first meeting, when he’d materialized out of nowhere and shot, shot, shot, shot the girl-creature hunting her down, then readily introduced himself like Grace didn’t owe him her life. Hell of a first impression.

    This initial heroic, almost superhuman, construct of him further enables the idea that Leon is inaccessible to her. Of course he doesn’t actually want anything to do with Grace, he’s only being polite. An obligation.

    She watches Leon reach over the table to pour Emily a refill of tea. Observes the muscles flexing in his tricep, his forearm, the blue veins threading under his hot skin, as he hovers the carafe over empty glass. The white clench of thick fingers. 

    Obscene is the only word her mind supplies.

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    Grace invites Leon over for a house-warming dinner. His presence gets her to realize a few things.

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    12 May 2026