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    “Beauregard – you said she is outside?” Essek half-turns in the direction of the front door. “Should we invite her in?”

    It feels like there is something stuck in his throat. “In a moment. She is, ah – giving us some space.”

    Essek turns back to stare at him. Repeats quietly, dangerously, “Space.”

    Caleb forces himself to swallow. “Yes.”

    Essek’s attention is a palpable thing now, sharp like a knife’s edge against his cheek. “Explain.”

    One moment makes all the difference during the battle at Blumenthal. In the aftermath, the Nein grapple with what comes next.

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    18 Feb 2024

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    Sitting next to Ikithon at the dinner table, Astrid is unshakeably conscious of two things. One, that the windows are not real. And two: neither is she.

    Sixteen years ago, Bren designed a spell. Sixteen years ago, Astrid finished it, alone.

    (Or: Astrid can never be forgiven for the crime of not being Bren Aldric Ermendrud--but Caleb Widogast can.)

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    24 Sep 2023

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    Years and this arrangement still felt at times nebulous, shifting—and it would be different again soon, his visits to Rexxentrum would be sanctioned, and he would be able to see Caleb, sometimes, in the daylight while still being able to wear his own face, and he would see much more of Astrid and Eadwulf as well.

    A new opportunity arises between the Empire and the Dynasty.

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    11 Apr 2023

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    There are no windows in the ship’s small bay. Still, Caleb swears he can sense the nearby star’s roiling and merciless light, a humming that itches in his skin and burrows into his spine.

    It is a dying star, massive and red, slowly expanding to swallow the lifeless planets of this system. They are in close orbit around it to gather enough energy to make this translocation possible. Caleb helped calculate the trajectory: his brain ticks away, tracking the position of the star and their corresponding angular speed.

    He knows he must sleep, with what is ahead of them. It eludes him. He stirs and follows the life-support cables to the ship's core.

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    18 Nov 2022

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    “Perhaps I am mistaken,” she finally continues, “and if I am, then I apologise. But if I am not…”

    Astrid looks down at the blood now slowly leaking out of her nail bed before wiping it off on her trousers.

    “I only wish you to know that if a remaining lifetime in prison is not an adequate enough punishment for him, there are other avenues that can be pursued.”

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    Or: Astrid has suspicions during the trial of Ludinus Da'leth, and confronts Essek on them the best she can.

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    03 Aug 2022

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