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  1. Public Bookmark 7

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    Hans lies in the grass outside Devil's Den, sweltering in the sun. He's liable to go mad here, he thinks. There's too much time to dwell on things, on nightmares of Suchdol and bodies littering the courtyard. On the wound in his shoulder that will never cease to hurt him, the way he has traded a gilded cage for rickety one made from crumbling plaster and ale stained wood. He will always be trapped somehow, by his own body or by circumstance it doesn't matter. What matters is the relief he finds in the weight of Henry atop him, whispering sharp words mixed with praise into his ear. He is changing, though what he will become he does not know.

    And Henry, he is changing too, into a man who can't seem to find peace. Someone who can't be a moment without a job or without a fight.

    War, it seems, has altered them both.

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    10 Jun 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 12

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    Rex. Familia. Ultio.

    Henry of Nowhere lolled his head forward, kissed the stolen blade to the scorch of his neck, and wished that he were Sir Gawain.

    Winter comes for Prague. Henry tries to outrun his anger, tries to take care of Hans, and fails miserably at doing either. Hans dreams for the both of them.

    [Can be read standalone. Henry and Hans run away before reaching Trosky and find themselves a new life.]

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    05 Jun 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 13

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    Henry pulled off him, swallowing hard and sliding a tongue across his lips. He looked up, the addled expression in Hans' face pulling a smile from him.

    “If you don’t fucking touch me right now, or take off this belt, I might strangle you with it later.”

    “Promise?” Hans said softly, his smile lazy, one hand brushing against Henry’s forehead.

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    In the blistering Summer heat, a few weeks after Suchdol, Hans and Henry seem to spend quite a lot of time in their bedroom at the Devil's Den, reorganising their furniture. Thankfully, for the other residents, Henry has made some alternative arrangements, and some thicker walls.

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    03 Jun 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 59

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    For thirty years, Henry has stood at the door as Hans's bodyguard — his sentinel, shadow, protector. His body bears the cost: scars hardened into stone, pain hidden behind silence, devotion carried alone. When Hans discovers the truth, fury and tenderness collide.

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    30 May 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 63

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    The sun was Hans' first lover, before any girl and long before Henry. Henry doesn't mind being second to that, because the sun left its kisses behind, in the freckles that dot Hans all over his back, clustered on the tops of his shoulders and arms, whispers of faded sunburns and brief boyhood escapes. Henry can't know every story, but he wants to ask, to try and hold all of them; he can't kiss every freckle, but he can try that, too.

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    Hans has a bad morning and Henry does his best to cheer him up, and drowns in his lover's body in the process.

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    30 May 2026