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  1. Public Bookmark 5

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    Dakkar’s been up too long. He knows he’s been up too long. His gaze is slightly fuzzy at the edges, eyes burning. His hair is tied back in a messy ponytail, strands loosely falling out as he stares down at the textbook pages that just won’t make sense.

    But he can’t go to sleep yet.

    Internal injuries have always been tricky. They are so much harder to treat, with a tendency to react badly to the Ways when ruptured just the wrong ways. It takes a skilled Healer to know exactly which way to weave the spell, magic spinning through the circulatory system—especially when responding alone, only one person to deal with it all.

    Dakkar has been attempting to figure out a way to weave one such spell in a minute flat.

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    Prince Dakkar practices late at night with a Way that he never wants to fail him again.

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    27 Oct 2025

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    baby. baby boy baby brother.

  2. Public Bookmark 32

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    No one had ever accused Maxwell Gotch of having particularly good luck. On the contrary, in fact.

    Case and point; Olethra was out exploring Zumhara and flirting with Ludmila, while Maxwell was down for the count in his quarters.

    Just his luck.

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    25 Oct 2025

  3. Public Bookmark 2

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    The grotto is enchanting.

    Every time Samuel’s eyes move around while walking through it, he swears they catch on a new wonder. Each item seems to gleam with promise. Gears click, a slight buzz coming off others, both melding with the sound of Samuel's steps—it all creates a melody of its own, weaving its way through the grotto. Some he can decipher what the purpose may be, but there are plenty where he has absolutely no clue. How much of that is because of how much time has passed, and how much is because science has only ever been something he's listened to, never pursued on his own? He's unsure.

    Still, there is a strange, undeniable beauty to them. They look carefully constructed—however they have been built, there is no doubt in Samuel's mind that it took time, love, and precision to make them whatever they are.

    It can't be anything but.

    He won't deny that they thrill him—masterpieces, all.

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    Well, we all know Dakkar caught up on Margaret’s adventures, we all know exactly who told them to him--so what did that look like? I have ideas.

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    08 Oct 2025

  4. Public Bookmark 1

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    Post canon for the searcher in the shadows. Sia is overworking herself. Margaret gets her to rest.

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    23 Sep 2025

  5. Public Bookmark 1

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    “Where is Samuel? I haven’t seen him around the deck for a while.”

    “Resting,” Margaret answers, sighing. “Thank God. I think he could do with a break. People have been…rather unreceptive to him when he talks about that strange man he met, and I think it rattled him badly, even before that–” she hesitates. She’s only just calmed John down, perhaps she should not mention this now.

    “-that fog, yes,” He finishes. His voice only slightly wavers. “He’s been working non-stop once again, hasn’t he? Samuel always does throw himself into ways to help where he can.”

    She can’t see the Brick Satellite that well in the daylight, but her gaze rises to where it would rest in the sky. How many bricks had Samuel laid for it, working well into the night? “Sometimes, I believe he may be the strongest of all of us,” she says. “No matter what, he stays by the sides of those he cares for, working himself to the bone to see it through. But even he needs to rest eventually.”

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    A missing scene - what was it like, when AJ went to go find Margaret? Perhaps she was talking with a dear friend.

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    17 Aug 2025