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    'The passion caused by the great and sublime in nature, when those causes operate most powerfully, is astonishment; and astonishment is that state of the soul, in which all its motions are suspended, with some degree of horror… A mode of terror or pain is always the cause of the sublime.'

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    "If I come out," Hikaru says, "all the way, you promise you won't be scared of me?"

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    11 Oct 2025

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    "You know," Hikaru says. "If the heat's too much of a problem, I can make myself colder. I could be, like, an icepack for you, if you want."

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    (About prey imagery, instinctive fears, sharing a bed, and the strange physicality of having a body.)

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    11 Oct 2025

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    The radio blares to life when the car first starts, a too-cheerful song playing too loud, before Kurebayashi fumbles it off. After that she doesn't try to turn it back on, or start a conversation. All they have to accompany them is the motion of the car bumping along the road, the flash of streetlights throwing shadows across their faces - and Hikaru, who wants to shrivel up and die.

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    11 Oct 2025

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    Lately, Yoshiki's been attracting a lot of attention—both from humans and from sinister supernatural entities.

    Sinister supernatural entities that aren't [Hikaru].

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    09 Oct 2025

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    They’d made it to Melora’s temple by sheer fluke. Perhaps it’s enough that he’s surrounded by nature here, like his home in Zephrah. Why Dorian had insisted on being the one to prepare him for the ritual, despite the disciples of the Wildmother being far more capable.

    It’s him, sharing a piece of himself - though too little, too late.

    (Dorian, Orym and the way you care after someone is gone)

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    03 Oct 2025