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April 05, 2024 12:13
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Chapter 29
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“What rumor?”
“That Kiem’s the one who was violent to you.” Bel said.
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Taam and Aren are very lucky they aren’t real people
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April 05, 2024 12:01
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Chapter 28
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“I’ll do it,” Jainan said hoarsely. “I’ll help you. Leave Kiem out of it.”
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NO YOU FREAKING WON’T
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April 05, 2024 11:54
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Chapter 27
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Taam’s form was blurry in front of him. Kiem looked down once more at the technician; she had the face of his prime five friend. The room wavered.
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Stop playing with my FREAKING FEELINGS
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April 05, 2024 11:52
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Chapter 27
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“I’m not,” Kiem said. “Listen, if I’d met you before you got married, I’d have fallen over my own feet trying to get you to look at me. You’re out of my league. You’re out of most people’s league, especially Taam’s. I’ve been trying to tell you this for weeks. I don’t know how to say it so you’ll believe it.”
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April 05, 2024 02:45
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Chapter 26
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I have not been this emotionally invested in something in a very long time
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April 05, 2024 02:41
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Chapter 26
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and the form lying on a medical bed, strapped into a helmet like the one the trooper had just dropped. Jainan.
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April 05, 2024 02:41
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Chapter 26
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“Jainan. Wake up.” Kiem hadn’t ever felt fear like this, fear that gripped his back and shoulders like a paralyzing current.
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THE ANGST IS UNBEARABLE
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April 05, 2024 02:37
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Chapter 25
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head hurt, and he couldn’t remember why. It was starting to hurt all the time.
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Wait wait wait wait no no no this has happened before hasn’t it
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April 05, 2024 02:37
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Chapter 25
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The aide’s face flickered, and behind it he saw the features of Aren’s Tau field technician, overlaid like two projections in the same space. There was a sudden stab of pain in his head and his surroundings dissolved.
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stop it
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April 05, 2024 02:34
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Chapter 25
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he had a genuine trained interrogator, a Tau field could make Jainan believe anything
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NO NO NO
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April 05, 2024 02:31
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Chapter 24
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There is no sick grandmother!”
Kiem stopped. “What?”
“I’ve been lying to you!”
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I FREAKING CALLED IT
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April 05, 2024 02:26
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Chapter 24
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“Conclusive of what?” Kiem said. “None of this is true! Jainan killing Taam? Trying to kill me? This is—this is bullshit!”
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April 05, 2024 02:24
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Chapter 23
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“She’s fine,” Aren said, smiling faintly. “Just making sure nobody interferes.”
Jainan was holding on to his self-control with his fingernails. “Interferes in what?”
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Wait is Bel evil
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April 05, 2024 02:21
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Chapter 23
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“You are under arrest for the murder of Prince Taam,” the corporal said, “and the attempted murder of Prince Kiem.”
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Noooo
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April 05, 2024 02:21
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Chapter 23
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With Taam there had always been the safety of knowing that both of them would rather crawl over broken glass than shame themselves in public.
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April 05, 2024 02:19
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Chapter 23
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Was Kiem raising his voice, or was Jainan imagining it?
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I hate Taam for hurting him
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April 04, 2024 22:14
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Chapter 19
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His mind was a train running on a phantom rail; he had to stop this. Ever since the wedding Kiem had treated Jainan’s problems as his own.
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April 04, 2024 19:13
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Chapter 18
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Jainan had forgotten. It was supposed to feel like this.
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April 04, 2024 19:11
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Chapter 18
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“You’re beautiful.”
The world twisted sideways. “What,” Jainan said.
“It’s really distracting,” Kiem said. Then he added hastily, “Not that that’s your problem. That really isn’t your problem, sorry, I’ll get over it.”
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April 04, 2024 18:20
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Chapter 18
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If only Jainan could be good enough for anyone
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April 04, 2024 17:53
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Chapter 17
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The bear stumbled back on its six legs
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That ain’t a bear guys
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April 04, 2024 17:45
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Chapter 16
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Taam would have been in a towering rage by now. Kiem … wasn’t. Yet.
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April 04, 2024 17:28
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Chapter 16
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One might not have a great effect, but he was wary of anything that interfered with his perceptions, and he disliked stim hangover.
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So we have drunk Kiem
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April 04, 2024 15:31
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Chapter 14
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“I just heard my grandmother’s ill.”
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Well now I’m getting bad vibes
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April 04, 2024 15:30
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Chapter 14
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Half the time he didn’t hear you when you spoke to him and the other half he jumped
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Honestly at this point I can’t tell if he’s traumatized or if he just needs a hug…
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April 04, 2024 03:04
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Chapter 11
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I’m a world-class meditator.
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Me too buddy me too
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April 04, 2024 02:43
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Chapter 10
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His head was hurting enough that pleading illness wouldn’t even have been a lie.
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His head hurts a lot … I wonder if remnants are related somehow
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April 04, 2024 02:40
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Chapter 9
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For one moment, Taam stood there, much more real than he’d been even during the wedding night dinner. Jainan’s breath stopped.
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Look I skimmed ahead and may or may not have spoiled something for myself but this makes sense now
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April 03, 2024 21:19
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Chapter 7
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“I didn’t mean—I’m sorry.”
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Stoppppp whoever hurt him better be dead
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April 03, 2024 21:17
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Chapter 7
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“Why do you look over your shoulder when you laugh?”
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April 03, 2024 20:55
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Chapter 5
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“Shared personal accounts? Maybe Jainan and Taam shared an official account.”
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Taam is giving very controlling
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April 03, 2024 20:54
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Chapter 5
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My partner thinks it’s his duty to sleep with me, even though he isn’t into it in the slightest?
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April 03, 2024 20:26
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Chapter 4
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He had to concentrate, he had to control himself, Kiem would notice if he wasn’t concentrating—
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… something is wrong here
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April 03, 2024 20:23
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Chapter 4
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Let’s go home, Jainan thought. Taam’s mood would only get worse if they stayed. As if he’d heard, Taam leaned toward him and reached out. Jainan kept his hand still on the table.
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Yeah Taam is not a good person I don’t trust him
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April 03, 2024 20:15
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Chapter 4
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Jainan’s head gave another stab of pain
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Random? Or is something else going on?
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April 03, 2024 20:14
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Chapter 3
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with callouses on the fingers,
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From what
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April 03, 2024 20:13
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Chapter 3
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“S-sorry,” he said. “I don’t—I don’t know what happened.”
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Oh buddy who hurt you … I swear if Taam hurt him … and maybe Jainan killed him?
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April 03, 2024 20:09
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Chapter 3
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But Hren only glared at him, and for some reason Jainan’s grip shifted on his arm
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This has to be important
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April 03, 2024 12:20
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Chapter 2
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“He has a doctorate in deep-space engineering!” Kiem called to Bel in the study. “At twenty-seven! How the hell am I going to talk to someone with brains like that?”
“You have practice with me.” Bel’s voice came floating back, amused.
“You don’t count! You get paid to dumb things down for me!”
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April 03, 2024 12:18
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Chapter 2
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“What about sprawls of despair?” he said. “Do we have special furniture for that? Put that on the list: source despair furniture for living room. Did I tell you I’m getting married?”
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We love him already
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April 03, 2024 12:15
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Chapter 2
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“The couch is for sitting, the bed is for lying, and the shuttleport bars are for whatever unholy combination of both you’re doing there.”
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April 03, 2024 12:14
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Chapter 2
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But to convince a grieving stranger not to resent everything about the situation
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Someone said this is hurt/comfort angst
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April 03, 2024 02:45
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Chapter 1
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It was a young man, tall and skeletal, dressed in a Thean-style tunic
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Abby no trust
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April 03, 2024 02:42
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Chapter 1
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You merely need to stand in the right place, mouth some words, and not offend the entire Thean press corps
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Yeah that won’t happen
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April 03, 2024 02:40
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Chapter 1
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Prince Taam and Count Jainan, the Thean representative, had been one of the royal family’s more intimidatingly polished couples, like the Emperor had ordered them built in a synthesizer.
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April 03, 2024 02:39
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Chapter 1
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Taam had been Kiem’s cousin
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For a second I forgot that there’s another dude and I was concerned about incest for a second
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