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    "All our silence could not excuse/Disappoint or further prove/Anything other than what we already know." - MS MR, 'All the Things Lost'.

    “Who did you promise?” she asks him, tearful with alarm and terror.

    He gives an odd sort of little half smile, then rasps, “Lyanna. I always kept my promises. She would have been so angry with me… otherwise. I had to help her. It was the only way.”

    “What was the only way?” Catelyn feels cold sweat dripping down her back, feels slightly feverish herself. “What do you mean, Ned? Did Lyanna ask you to do something?”

    “Keep him away… from Robert,” he whispers. “To protect him.”

    (Mortally wounded during the Greyjoy Rebellion, a delirious Ned makes a deathbed confession to Catelyn, leaving her to pick up the pieces of both her life and Jon Snow's.)

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    03 Jun 2023

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    “Should we talk about what just happened?” Baird asked, voice very low.

    “Talk about how an eleven-year-old child opened a doorway to divine power?” said Myles. “Or talk about how that child did so to save the prince from an unnatural disease sent to disable the line of succession? Or talk about how that child is likely now a prime target for whoever sent it?”

    “We could talk about how we’re not referring to that child as a boy, right now,” offered Baird, and Myles took a sharp breath.

    "For that child’s sake, we should talk about none of this.”
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    SOTL through POTS from the realm's Chief Healer, who has a very good heart. Also, Wilina.

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    02 Mar 2023

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    After doing Lex's bidding for over a decade, Superman has forgotten what it's like to be treated like a person.

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    The Justice League captures Superman. Clark Kent waits for the penny to drop.

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    28 Feb 2023

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    Surely it is a mistake to allow a single youthful indiscretion to cloud an already promising career.

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    25 Dec 2022

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    Anakin makes a different choice in the Chancellor's office, but Mace and Anakin fail to kill the Sith Master. In the aftermath, they take a moment to breathe, while the Republic burns.

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    08 Dec 2022