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    From his post, Viktor had a perfect view of him, ever studious and ever handsome, so young. Anyone with eyes and an interest in men would find Jayce interesting to watch across the room, he often told himself. Viktor was no stranger to attraction, but his proclivity for alone time had relegated him to a few trysts over the years, largely physical, never lasting. Just enough to scratch the itch.

    Watching Jayce was scratching an itch.

    Catching his eye across the room and smiling like they had a secret was scratching an itch.

    But Viktor wasn’t delusional. With all of Paris at Jayce’s fingertips, it would be ill-advised and unthinkable for him to settle for a banged-up, old librarian.

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    Paris, 1976. University librarian Viktor can understand why he has a crush on a new, foreign grad student. He cannot understand why that student wants to be his friend.

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    The summer before college, Jayce gets hired as a pool boy by one of his mother's colleagues. He might've jumped at the chance primarily because he thinks Dr. Prorok is hot, but no one needs to know that. It's not like anything is going to come of it. Dr. Prorok is in his late forties. Jayce is barely eighteen.

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    Once a year, the Herald takes a virgin, offered up by the community and selected by His angels, to use for His pleasure. If the sacrifice survives, some, maybe all, in their niche of the commune will be blessed with the Herald’s touch a second and final time when they join the ranks of His gloriously evolved.

    It is a position of great esteem and great peril to be the Herald’s sacrifice. Many do not survive it. The fear, however, is not of death but of the failure that comes with it. There’s a great deal of mystery around it, but everyone knows a healthy, whole sacrifice is better.

    So when the angels arrive at Jayce’s door the day before the ceremony, anyone who knows him is not surprised.

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    "Have you found a future where we grow old?" asked Jayce.

    "We have not invented that one yet," said Viktor.

    Lost in limbo, they build new bodies.

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