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    Quỳnh's loss not only destroys Andy but tears Joe and Nicky apart.

    More than five hundred years later, Nicky finds a recently-published Arabic epic poem from the Renaissance in a bookshop with a very familiar tale inside.

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    22 Aug 2023

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    Ed begins to tell fun facts to the strange fancy man who visits the aquarium each day.

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    26 Apr 2022

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    “What kind of leather is this, then?” Ed asks, genuinely curious, holding up a beautiful gray pelt.

    Stede barely restrains himself, barely keeps from lunging across the room to yank the sealskin out of Ed’s hands.

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    26 Apr 2022

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    Nothing then but silence, broken only by the sound of Mary’s uneven breathing. The house around them is silent, too, only the two of them left within its walls. Blackbeard’s grip on the heavy bronze mastiff has gone white-knuckled, but when he finally speaks his voice is even. Calm.

    “It’s really true, then. Stede Bonnet is dead.”

    Or: Blackbeard's crew descends upon the Bonnet homestead after hearing the rumor of Stede's alleged death.

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    26 Apr 2022

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    “You,” Ed starts to interrupt him, then stops, clearing his throat. His voice is almost— gritting, cracking in the middle. When he starts again, he’s stronger, but still— shaky. “You made me this? I mean— You made this? For me?”

    Stede’s not entirely sure what he means by that, but he has that little bubbling sensation he always gets when Ed is making him happy. It’s this simmering, glowing joy that always rises inside him, like it’s going to blow him up. He’s already smiling.

    “I did,” Stede says. Ed sits up properly beside him, and Stede nudges his shoulder, jostles him a bit. “I thought you could use something a little bit soft. Besides me, you know.”

    He’s expecting Ed to tease him in response, but instead, he doesn’t speak. He just keeps staring down at the blanket, clutched between his fingers.


    or: five times stede did things for ed, and one time ed did something for stede.

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    19 Apr 2022