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    The Ringbearers journey west to bring their hearts peace after being touched by the darkness of the Enemy. Bilbo Baggins finds that his heart lies eastward, instead.

    Or: Bilbo is given a chance to do it all again, and to chase his heart across the depths of time so that he may have the chance to save it.

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    04 Dec 2024

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    There's a certain point where you can no longer ask someone what their name is. Thorin isn't sure exactly when that point is, but he knows that it's probably some time before the person in question saves your life. On the far side of the Misty Mountains, Thorin realizes that he never quite caught the first part of Mr. Baggins' name, and he finds that it's astonishingly harder to learn than he would have thought. Fili, Kili, and Dwalin are no help whatsoever.

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    12 Oct 2024

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    Jaskier is finally free. After so long trapped in a form not his own he had begun to doubt which was his true self. But here he is, unshackled. The betrayals, violence, abandonment- the destruction his family wrought upon themselves and others, all of it left far behind. Jaskier is determined to enjoy this second chance. To bask in the beauty of life and ignore what horrors linger. Then he meets Geralt and things become complicated.

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    “They don’t exist.”

    “Pardon?” The bard’s brown hair flops as he tilts his head.

    Geralt bravely doesn’t sigh again. “The monsters in your songs. They don’t exist.”

    For some reason that gets him a grin, “How do you know?”

    Geralt stares at him.

    “I’m a Witcher.”

    The bard laughs, “So just because you’ve never seen them that means they don’t exist?”

    “Yes.” Geralt says flatly.

    “Agree to disagree.” The man says flippantly, “But I would love to hear more about the monsters you’ve fought.”

    “No.” Geralt takes a drink desperately and finds he is almost at the bottom of his tankard. He contemplates whether it’s worth the coin for another. Probably not.

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    She’s never unexpected, but she’s always a surprise. And when Charles meets her, it's nothing like the nightmare he's built up in his own head, being split away from Edwin and cursed to an afterlife without him. She's kind and gentle and familiar, and she gives him a chance to say goodbye to his mother.

    Or, the one where Charles meets Death. They have a lot to talk about. But it's okay. They have time.

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    In which Crystal moves in, solves a case, gets confused, and helps everyone realize the power of love. Or something.

    They sit in silence for another moment - he, fit of friendship over, studying the engraving on the cover of the Night Nurse’s book, she, embarrassed at this bonding moment between them, readjusting herself on the couch.

    Edwin stands and makes his way to his bookshelves. “Would you like to read something a bit more cheerful?”

    “Yes, please,” Crystal says, truthfully, and extends her hands for the heavy tome that he gives her.

    They sit in silence together for another few moments, and then - “What the fuck, Edwin, in what world is ‘A Dissertation on Modern Age Poisons’ ‘more cheerful’?”

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    10 May 2024