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“I think I’m going to get into birding,” Sid said.
Zhenya was sitting on his balcony with his laptop on the side table, eating a burger and watching seagulls squabble on the riprap. “What’s birding,” he said absently, as one gull lifted its wings overhead, raised its rear end, and took a stringy white shit.
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26 May 2026
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She raised her beer to her mouth and took a long drink. She was a little intimidating. Sid kind of liked it. He'd nearly forgotten his intended task when Cassidy nodded her head at Geno lingering. "Who's your friend?" As if she didn't already know his name.
"Evgeni," Geno said, shouldering in next to Sid. "Penguins. Seven-One. Hi."
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Sid’s heart jumped and stayed high, quivering behind his ribs. He had slept on the flight from Toronto to Warsaw, and studied his phrasebook between Warsaw and Moscow, and hadn’t been nervous at all until this moment. It was only Geno, after all.
Geno, who he hadn’t seen in a year and a half. Who had hesitated on the phone for many long, painful seconds when Sid first proposed this visit.
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22 May 2026
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Sitting at the table was Sid: Sid as Zhenya had first known him, almost a decade before: dorky, long-haired Sid, his cheeks round with baby fat. He couldn’t have been older than twenty, and even that was generous.
“Wow,” baby Sid said. “Are you Evgeni Malkin?”
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The third man said nothing. His eyes were cool and amused on Sid’s body and his face. Sid watched him in return, curious about the man’s height and the subtle humor in his expression. The entire circumference of his left ear was ringed with tiny gold hoops. He wore a fur draped over his shoulders, and when he turned aside to look at someone coming into the hall, Sid saw the bear head sagging down his back, like the hood of a cape.
“Malkin,” Sid said. It could be no one else. The Bear King.
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