TheLizard

A young leopard gecko standing attentively



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  1. Public Bookmark 15

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    A new place, a new horror held inside. But this place knows. This place remembers.

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    30 Jun 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 89

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    There it was, that thing Qifrey did, where he offered a piece of himself wrapped in observation about someone else, like a gift hidden inside a gift, and you had to decide whether to unwrap the second layer or pretend you had only received the first. Olruggio had spent half his life learning to read these offerings and in doing so he had become the foremost scholar of a language spoken by exactly one person in all the world.

    "I'm stubborn because someone has to be," he said. "You'd float away on your own mysteries if no one kept you tethered."

    "Perhaps." The maddingly sad smile again. "Perhaps that's so."

    In which Olruggio brings tea to Qifrey's study on a damp evening and finds him working in the dark again, the staff out and the fire dying.

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    19 May 2026

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    "He knew the catalog of Qifrey's deflections like the back of his own hand; first the pleasant vagueness, then the gentle redirection, then, if pressed too far, the smile that closed any discussion like a gate. He had perhaps two more questions before the gate swung shut."

    WAOWOWOAOWWAOUGH!!!!

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    The Knights’ cloaks are the color of an open wound against the walls of the atelier, their pennants like exposed bones. They look at him like Olruggio has committed a crime he cannot remember. Maybe he has.

    They do not tell him who Qifrey is, even when he asks. They do not tell him much of anything.

    Olruggio thinks he can figure it out from the empty space.

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    14 May 2026

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    MEIN GOTT

  4. Public Bookmark 52

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    Back in the atelier after the events of Romonon, Coco can't sleep. As it turns out, neither can Olruggio.

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    06 May 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 46

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    Sinocia cares a lot about those boys. She's treated them more times than she can count...and she notices when something isn't right between them.

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    04 May 2026

    Bookmarker's Notes

    WOOWOWOWOWOW