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    Telepathy – in the sense of somebody reading your thoughts – is not, so far as Nightingale or I or any other Newtonian wizards I’ve met to date are aware, a real thing.

    That wasn’t much consolation right now.

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    17 Jun 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 10

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    “A strategic deflection,” Guleed repeated. “From someone asking Nightingale out. On a date. Which, for the record, is allowed.”

    “I know it’s allowed,” I said, mostly into my collar. “I just didn’t think—”

    “Clearly,” said Patel.

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    17 Jun 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 60

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    “And what are you in the mood for, Louis?” Lestat could have fallen to his knees and wept. The beauty of Louis, his heat, his heart. What was the hurt Lestat felt compared to that? Nothing, a mere blip. “Aside from litigation and smoking my cigarettes and siphoning money from my merchandise?”

    Or: After the meeting with their lawyers, Louis finds Lestat outside.

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    16 Jun 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 3

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    Claudia swallows. “I’m not a prostitute. Louis—he adopted me, when my parents left and the rooming-house burned down.”

    Grace startles. At the admission of death or the admission of adoption, she can't be sure. If Grace knows Louis' true nature, of his relationship with Lestat, then she must have predicted that her brother would never have a child.

    Then—Grace winces. “My brother’s daughter,” she says, voice quiet, voice contemplative, voice regretful, and she manages to make the title sound like more than Louis or Lestat ever has.

    Her mother died. Her father ran off. Her adoptive parents let her burn.

    Claudia is cursed to a half-existence forever because Louis missed the woman in front of her so much that he wanted to replace her. 

    But when Grace says my brother's daughter, some part of Claudia thinks "I am both of their daughter, I've got Lestat's hunger and Louis' ache, and Grace just sees the parts of me that are human."

    (Grace meets Claudia next to a grave before her mother's funeral, and things go a little bit differently.)

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    16 Jun 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 3

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    Idira dreamed of a door. A real door, solid and made of rockcrete. In the dream it felt cold beneath her fingers.
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    Idira Tlass dreams of salvation.

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    04 Jun 2026