8 Works by decoying
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Family. He knows how to miss them, no matter how long they’re gone.
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The lot of them are thoroughly enraptured by their lively bard's storytelling. The Warrior of Light, though—her lips roll in, twitching. All the laughter she’s holding back. All the truths she could tell to steal Thancred's lamplight, but she won’t. She likes him like this.
As does Estinien. -
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Upon his magnanimous throne, his royal highness’s face remains impassive. Placid as a frozen lake with a dozen corpses sunk to the bottom of its muddy bank; oh, but, one little crack is all it takes to test how solid.
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Pressed close as they are, they cast only one shadow down the length of the alley. Estinien says it’s less conspicuous this way. They both know he's wholly unconcerned with impropriety—and that he’s lying.
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In the two summers since they’ve been on the First, it’s easy to lose track of how many times Thancred's come here. And always after, this feeling comes again to scrape him raw.
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“I’ve got a message for you, as it turns out.”
“Do you, now?” Achilles says, at length. He takes in the state of him, and seems to draw some pained, laborious conclusion. (Or perhaps he’s lost some long-fought, attritional battle.) Zagreus is only able to breathe again when he decides: “Let’s have it, then.” -
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The sweet sigh that spills from his lips has letters attached. Achilles smiles for the same reason Zagreus does—because they both know he doesn’t need all of him.
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John’s glad it’s dark. He’s gotta be as red as a glowing fire.