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  1. Public Bookmark 17

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    Armand makes sure Daniel is well fed during his stay in Dubai.

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  2. Public Bookmark 37

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    See additional warnings in end notes.

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    Even at the worst of it. Even at the eleventh hour, when the weakest of them (James included) were driven round the wheel of breath by brute instinct alone, dead men with beating blood, Francis emanated the kind of muddy half-light that precedes the rising sun. His indefatigable will made manifest in the flesh.

    “Don’t be cruel, James,” he is saying now. “I am fat, decrepit. My better days, if ever I had them, are long behind me.”

    “Ever the curmudgeon. You’ve no idea how ... splendid you are. I, for one, think these are your finest days.”

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    04 Jan 2025

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    Before the rescue, and before James’s body had begun to break down in earnest, he’d started to find the nighttime cold on the shale unbearable. He’d shiver for hours before passing out from exhaustion—excruciating, when every movement caused him a spark of pain. One night the cold was particularly sharp—the flaps of their tent snapped loud as thunderclaps in the unforgiving wind—and he’d been shocked to feel his cot dip behind him, Francis’s solid form pressing up against his back. 

    “Francis,” he’d said, heart pounding, “what are you doing?”

    “Whisht,” Francis had hissed. “Can’t sleep for the chattering of your teeth. Now rest.”

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  4. Public Bookmark 48

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    James felt the least chilled he had in months.

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    03 Jan 2025

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    “What was it, James, all those men before did that didn’t please you?” Francis asks quietly, a menacing gleam of certainty crystallising in his gaze, and James feels his stomach drop at the warm, queasy sense that some trap has been laid that he’s been far too foolish to see. “Or, rather," Francis whispers, "what did they fail to do? Tell me, so that I may not repeat their mistakes.”

    James has a secret, and Francis has a way of seeing far too much.

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    03 Jan 2025