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  1. Public Bookmark 23

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    It’s supposed to be an easy job. A rich family on vacation, an easily surpassable security system, no live-in staff. Silco had scouted them for weeks – newly-fashioned art collectors, the kind to have a nice payout hanging on the wall for the taking. Too green to know how to protect their valuables.

    No one expected the pet sitter.

    [or:

    An accident, a betrayal, a bitter divorce. The love was there and it made everything worse.]

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    07 Jul 2025

  2. Public Bookmark 39

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    Instigator(s): Noun. A person (or persons) who causes something to happen, who provokes an action, who stirs up feelings especially of discontent.
    Synonyms: firebrand, provoker, ringleader, mastermind.
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    “If Zaun is a bird trapped underground, what does that make Piltover? A worm desperate to fly?”

    Vander barks a laugh.

    “Yeah, maybe. If it’s so desperate, it should just let the bird eat it. A worm’s not getting off the ground on its own.”
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    Vander rescues a sharp-tongued boy from a cave-in. Then he helps Silco bring the Mount Kiramman Mine to its knees.

    What is love after heartbreak and rage, after betrayal, fear and hatred? Sometimes it’s still love.

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    13 Jun 2025

  3. Public Bookmark 3

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    Silco called himself the Eye of Zaun now, because he was bound and determined to watch for the threat everyone had convinced themselves wasn’t coming. He would stand on guard against Piltover, when everyone else let themselves be lulled by short-sighted promises of peace. But he’d been far better known throughout Zaun when his place was at the king’s side as his left hand, when Vander had first taken the throne from his father. Zaun’s spymaster. A vicious defender of the crown. A sharper weapon than Zaun’s army had ever been.

    Blessed with sparkfire, a once-in-a-generation gift. Silco could burn many things—and he had. An entire future, a path of life, had been turned to ashes in his hand years ago.

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    The wheel of fate will always turn. For kings, for scholars, for visionaries—all. Whether it is a cycle or a winding path can only be determined at the end.

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    22 May 2025

  4. Public Bookmark 30

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    A foreboding dream sets Vi on a path she was never meant to walk — and nothing that follows will leave her world intact.

    This is a story about two men’s dream to change a hostile world and how the world changed them in turn. About what gets passed down — love, trauma, identity, ideology. About the inevitable cost of difficult choices. About the conflict between who we believe ourselves to be and who the world makes us into.

    A character study told through alternating perspectives across both cities, building toward a reckoning that has been twenty years in the making.

    And it’s enormously Silco centric. Don’t be fooled.

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    21 May 2025

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    “So, you’re no longer Piltover’s lapdog, but mine?” Silco asks, keeping his grip on Vander’s jaw, but drawing one finger down his beard.

    Vander looks up at him steadily. “I’m not your lapdog, Silco. I’m your Hound.”

    Or the apology letter makes Silco go confront Vander earlier, and Vander is willing to both contemplate joining the fight again and earn Silco's forgiveness through his body if that's what it takes.

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    07 Dec 2024