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  1. Public Bookmark 18

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    Zhongli pins the Harbinger under his stony gaze. Golden eyes painted with orange seem to pick Pantalone apart, looking past flesh and bones and peering into his very soul, undoing every wall and barrier he’s put up.

    All of a sudden, he’s a child dressed in rags again, kneeling on warm stone tiles after having been shoved to the ground by the eager crowd. The greying clouds above the terrace disperse as a god descends among men. The same shade of gold fixates on him. The boy only has a second to let out an awed, “Oh” before the crowd moves again and he’s pushed aside.

    That was the first time he’d seen his god.

    “I was not aware that another Harbinger would be in my territory,” Zhongli says and breaks Pantalone away from his thoughts.

    Pantalone returns to Liyue for vacation and faces his old god. Years of resentment are hard to push past.

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    29 Jun 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 67

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    “Cut clean from the past, you say? Do you even understand how many Khaenri'ahn wanted to do that? Do you know how many Khaenri'ahn managed to do that?”

    The words coming from Dainsleif were filled with undiluted hatred. His anger was a searing blaze, consuming reason and leaving behind only the scorching remnants of fury. It's a tempestuous storm, battering the mind and heart with lightning strikes of indignation and thunderous roars of frustration.

    “Let me tell you the answer: It’s zero. None. No one. Not even me.”

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    They were both a sinner. Only sinners could provide salvation to another sinner, and only sinners could condemn each other.

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    29 Jun 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 58

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    “Strip.”

    The request-slash-command went through Childe’s head.

    They locked in a very long, very awkward stare-down.

    Eventually, Dottore released a slow, exhausted sigh, completed with a long-suffering expression of a man reconsidering every life choice that had led him to this room. He looked like someone who wished he were literally anywhere else. Well, jokes on him. Childe felt exactly the same.

    “Childe,” Dottore said patiently, in the tone one might use for a particularly dense child, “I need to examine the wound on your stomach. Might I remind you that you were nearly skewered through the abdomen by an Abyssal creature?”

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    Childe was hospitalized, and Dottore lamented the fact that none of the Fatui Harbingers possessed even the slightest sense of self-preservation.

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    28 Jun 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 45

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    Within one of the desk drawers Feofan found a hidden note – seemingly penned by pity.

    -Do not refer to Zandik as their leader but defer to him always
    -Zandik can be reasoned with but do not disappoint him
    -Do not assume 18 or 8 are kind because they are young
    -Be as minimal with 45 as possible
    -25 will sometimes lie
    -35’s opinions carry the most weight among the segments
    -Both 25 and 35 play with their food
    -All are capable of extreme behavior
    -They do not like each other

    Good luck

    “Mm. How ominous … “ Feofan muttered. Fingers of his left hand tapped against the surface of the desk for several seconds – the alternative to having a cigarette to fuss with.

    ~~~~~

    OR: Omega's relationship with Zandik becomes even more complicated when an intelligent, beautiful specimen catches their interest.

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    28 Jun 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 67

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    Feofan wakes up in a familiar cell after having died.

    His death was neither beautiful nor remarkable. He simply stopped taking the elixir, fell ill, grew old, and died.

    He smoked more than any transplant could ever repair, drank more than any liver could endure. His heart had died long before his body did, and he condemned himself to a death as human as it was mundane.

    So the real question is... why is he lying on the floor of the containment cell where he was sold to Dottore more than four hundred years ago?

    —— Alternative Universe: Reincarnation.

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    25 Jun 2026