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  1. Public Bookmark 17

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    “Family? Family doesn’t do what you did.” His vision is hazy, he tries to blink the moisture away. “You have no idea what the thing did to us… wanted to do to us. What it tried to do to me, like, multiple times,” Naim says. Sometimes, he can still feel phantom hands pulling at his belt, turning him over, smashing his face into walls, clawing at his hips. Fingers so deep in his throat they scratched his esophagus until he vomited blood. He sniffles. “Fucked up shit, Mum. So much of it.”

    She reaches out to grab his hand. Naim doesn’t pull away. Tears fall for real now, hot and sticky, rolling down both his cheeks. “Mom, how could you do that to me?”

    It’s Christmas eve. Naim’s present to his mother will be their first face to face conversation in almost five years.

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    25 Jul 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 11

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    Naim gets tormented by nightmares and his own insecurities. Ryan shows him he's not alone.

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    22 Jul 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 14

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    They escaped.
    That was supposed to be the hard part.
    After fleeing the town that had taken everything from them, Ryan and Naim arrive in Melbourne with no plan, no certainty, and no idea what comes next. Ryan has a backpack and a destination. Naim has nothing but the clothes he ran away in and the guilt he carries for the role he played in bringing the nightmare to Ryan's doorstep.
    In a city where no one knows their names, they have to learn how to survive without fear following their every step—and how to find forgiveness when the person they hurt is the only person they have left.
    Because leaving was easy.
    Learning how to live with what they carry is the hard part.

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    21 Jul 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 18

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    After running away, Naim suffers from nightmares. He ends up wetting the bed, and, despite his humiliation, Ryan doesn’t love him any less.

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    20 Jul 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 58

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    Naim goes mute again after they leave Bandee. He tries to make amends with Ryan without his voice.

    Alternatively: Ryan represses his feelings and Naim doesn't want to watch him hurt

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    19 Jul 2026