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    “I mean, people know lullabies, I suppose. But that one…it’s not quite Mary Had a Little Nug, is it? It’s…a Nevarran song. For Nevarran babies.”
    “Which mine would have been,” Emmrich whispered. “Had I had them.”

    Emmrich shares secrets; Rook indulges a fantasy.

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    19 Jan 2026

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    Moros wonders why his sisters sent him here. To get him out of the way? To protect him?

    Surely it can't be to bed the Princess of the Underworld. So why is she the one asking?

    And why can't he say no?

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    20 Oct 2025

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    You don’t know how to describe the look on Caleb’s face. It’s not disgusted, or even appalled. But it’s certainly not eager, either. You think you might catch a little restraint if you squint. But from what?

    When he says your name it’s slow, and deliberate, and it thrums deep in your chest, in the pit of your heart. “What’re you saying, exactly?”

    Your fingers curl into his blankets, nails snagging on the fabric. Bite. The bullet. “Look, I’m just saying—I’m saying that if. If I had to find out with somebody. You’d be that somebody. I guess. All right? Okay? Is that so awful?”

    Or: Maybe you shouldn't have asked Caleb if he's still a virgin.

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    25 Jul 2025

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    You think this is probably the world’s worst kept secret as Caleb’s hand slips beneath your skirt.

    Worst kept secret in that there’s no way people can’t see the way you feel about Caleb, or he you. How, despite the history there, that familial bond you’d grown up tethered by, smothered by, you want him so badly you think you might shake apart with the feeling of it. How it can’t be a surprise to anyone the way he drives you crazy.

    Or how you want nothing more than to press up against him in public, parade around on his arm like there’s nothing wrong with the idea of the two of you together. 

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    24 Jul 2025

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    She feels strange now, not unpleasant by any means - simply different. Like the girls in fairytales who trade seeing unicorns for something magical in a different way. Ellen was never visited by sweet, innocent, things like that and so to her Orlok is the equivalent exchange.
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    Ellen asks for something from a monster and he is happy to oblige her.

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    09 Jan 2025