solarisonlysometimes

a close-up shot of Furina de Fontaine, who is winking and smiling



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    At a nearby table outside, a Melusine named Pip had climbed onto the back of a bench to get a better view.

    “Do you think they’ll kiss?” she whispered to Clorinde.

    “They don’t even know they’re on a date,” Clorinde hissed back. “They think this is a committee meeting.”

    Pip frowned. “Are they always like this?”

    Navia leaned over the table, an entire organizational binder of “Intervention Protocols for Romantically Repressed Men” open in her lap. “This is advanced-stage oblivious. I’ve seen rocks with more self-awareness.”

    Charlotte looked up from her surveillance sketchpad—yes, she was sketching this. For posterity. “I’ve got a shot of Wriothesley staring at Neuvillette’s hands like they hold the answers to the universe.”

    “They do,” said Clorinde grimly.

    In which two deeply repressed men share tea, an umbrella, and several near-fatal amounts of yearning while all of Fontaine loses its collective mind.

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    Aventurine and Ratio enter a pocket dimension sealed within a Curio, seeking the treasure rumored to be inside. According to the intel Ratio's team gathered, it was hidden behind a series of trials, meant to test the bond between two people. Sure, Aventurine couldn't say for certain whether Ratio even liked him, but they could've never made it as far as they have as business partners without some degree of trust and cooperation, right?

    By the time he realizes how utterly twisted the Curio is, it's already too late to back out. He and Ratio are trapped, at the mercy of the long-dead maniac who created this room, and it's going to take every ounce of strength they have to survive.

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    “Aventurine’s portfolio.” Ratio says it with a softness that belies his exterior, the reverence in his tone conveying to all what words cannot. “You’re stating this is ultimately what led you to make your decision?”

    Sunday almost looks hesitant to answer, mouth partially obscured by the cup of tea in his grasp. Nonetheless, his voice is steady when he answers. “Yes.”

    “Do you understand what you’re asking me to do?”

    Ratio is hired to complete a portrait for a wealthy client.

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    And Neuvillette… Neuvillette.

    He doesn’t know how it happened, but Wriothesley has started thinking about him more when he’s not reading than when he is. He watches him differently in courtrooms, though he tries not to.

    Neuvillette speaks with that same soft detachment, that same careful cadence, that same deliberate restraint. He stands always too straight, too composed, like something fragile that’s afraid to crack.

    But then Wriothesley returns home, flips open the newest borrowed volume, and sees this:

    “They speak of me as if I have no pulse. But how can I explain that I feel too much?”

    And:

    “Is it foolish to wish someone might look at me—not the robes, not the title, not the judgment—but me, and stay anyway?”

    And:

    “I watch him when I shouldn’t. When he leans against the marble banister and says nothing. He is very good at saying nothing, and yet I feel as though I have heard his entire life.”

    Wriothesley stares at the words for so long, he forgets what time it is.

    Or, how two men fall in love in the margins of legal textbooks.

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    Five times Neuvillette called Wriothesley “Your Grace” to maintain professional distance (during a suffocating training inspection, in the aftermath of a courtyard brawl, live on broadcast before all of Fontaine, across a teacup and a pair of crocheted ears, and in the middle of a diplomatic ballroom thick with jealousy). And one time he didn’t—because distance was no longer something he wanted to keep.

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    17 May 2026