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  1. Public Bookmark 42

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    Every year within the Dwendalian Empire, one of the biggest events on the calender is The Annual Dance. An extravagant night in which the richest and most powerful couples in the Empire and the rest of Wildemount are able to mingle, broker deals, catch up on gossip, and dance the night away, with the best couple receiving a special prize.

    Beau had thought her days of going to the Annual Dance were over, but when a mission from the Cobalt Soul gets them two invitations, she finds herself and Jester being assigned to infiltrate the dance, to serve as a distraction while the rest of the Nein get up to the real shady business.

    This would be fine, except to make a distraction they have to compete to be the best dancers. Which means pretending to be a couple. A couple in love. Beau is in love with Jester. Jester is in love with Beau. Neither of them has told the other yet. This whole night would be a lot simpler if they did.

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    09 Jun 2026

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    "Hi, I'm Zoey! It's so good to meet you!"

    "Mira. Same."

    This was typically the part where Rumi would be expected to introduce herself, but she didn't seem to give a flying fuck about what was expected of her if the way she still just stared even as Celine cleared her throat pointedly said anything.

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    "Hey, we got you something from the store last night."

    Rumi squinted between them and the bag. "Why."

    "Because as much as you don't seem to like us, we like you just fine."

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    "Well, come on. Aren't you going to bite somebody with those big sharp teeth of yours?" Mira prompted again with a raised brow, shaking Zoey's arm slightly, as if genuinely trying to entice Rumi to take a bite.

    Instead of taking the proffered bait, Rumi turned her head away with a strong air of ‘well now I don't want to.'

    "Thought so." Mira drawled, unimpressed. "Now how about you let us help you inside?"

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    Alt take: Repression didn't work baybeee, now it's everyone's problem!

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    08 Jun 2026

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    When Mira panicked and lied to her overbearing chaebol family about having a girlfriend, she had one week to make it true.

    When Rumi opened a message from a stranger offering money for one night of pretending, she should have said no.

    Neither of them planned for what happened next.

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    06 Jun 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 80

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    “Haven’t you done enough?” The question burns his ears, and he knows the answer.
    He’s done more than enough.
    He shouldn’t interfere.
    Despite the customs of today, he respects the desire of a warrior to go out on their own terms.
    This would be a mercy compared to what would face her in just a few hours.
    As Rumi looks down at her blade again, her hands starting to shake, Jinu knows he shouldn’t stop this.
    He should let her go.
    He shouldn’t interfere.
    He shouldn’t.

    Rumi doesn’t make it to Celine, not when Jinu’s betrayal hurts more than enough to end it all.

    Jinu succeeded in his task, and still he feels the same as he did four hundred years ago.

    Mira and Zoey face the consequences of their training, and choice that may change them forever.

    Because hope is an easy thing to hurt, but a hard thing to kill.

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    25 May 2026

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    Bella’s visions have changed everything. She doesn’t really understand the full scope and meaning of them. A higher power is clearly at play but at least the visions of her increasingly violent deaths have stopped. Her birthday party happens, worse this time, but at least that means she’ll be free soon. If only Edward was the last of her concerns. Leah shifting when she did was a surprise, but the vision that followed was an even greater one. Bella has done her best to avoid her without hurting her, but it won’t work for much longer. Time is running out and things are spinning further and further out of control. And now she has to deal with Rosalie and Emmett’s protective behavior. If only she could figure out what it all means.

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    OFC reincarnated as Bella Swan with visions instead of a shield.

    — Leah/Bella endgame but very much a slow burn. This fic continues to explore the themes of choice and the struggle of free will with the imprint bond that were started in Daybreak. Must read Daybreak first.

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    24 May 2026