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    Skopas died in his cot a little before dawn, on the morning of the eleventh day after the Council of Elders had voted by a margin of three votes to permit Kremnoans to draw water from the eastern cisterns of Okhema. His death was a quiet one in linen sheets that smelled faintly of herbs, with the morning bells of a foreign land ringing over the makeshift camp.

    It was a most inglorious death. His brother, who had sat with him through the long night, did not weep. He set his palm flat upon the corpse’s forehead, traced the sigil of Nikador above his eyes, and rose to leave the tent.

    Mydei knelt by the cot, setting the back of his hand to Skopas's cheek. The flesh was already cold. He'd thought about it a dozen times over the past months, known from the first that they would have a death in the camp before long, and he had known that when it came, he would have to do this. He had simply hoped that he would have a little more time to prepare.

    Funerary marches are no easy thing, not when your people are much diminished in a foreign land and every action is suspect---especially when a white-haired nuisance with bright eyes and a charming smile insists on tagging along.

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    11 Apr 2026

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    “They welcome me like I haven’t spent the past week piercing holes through their beloved savior,” Mydei comments once he and Phainon manage to find some peace at the corner of  a stairway. 

    “Careful- you’re still a little purple here,” Phainon replies with a tap to his own shoulder. 

    Mydei smirks and hopes, childishly, that the princess will at the very least allow him to borrow her knight. It’d be a shame to never spar again.

     

    Or: The war is over, and Mydei is sent off to marry the Okheman princess... Or so he thinks.

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    07 Dec 2025

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    “No matter. Mydeimos also told us of how he lost the signet ring a gave him in the sea of souls, and how Phainon found it again and returned it to him-”
    She is cut off by a loud gasp from across the table. Audata’s hands fly up to cover her mouth as Hieronymus fumbles with his plate but manages not to drop it as well. “Phainon gave him a ring? And a family heirloom, no less?” Audata sounds vaguely faint.
    Now it is Gorgo's turn to be shocked again. One of these occurrences alone wouldn’t be terribly significant, but both? In addition to the general closeness and understanding between the pair that was obvious for anyone to see, it painted a damning picture. But the question now was were they already married or simply betrothed?

    This presented the final piece of evidence, Gorgo was now convinced. Those two boys had, at some point, gotten married. And not thought to tell anyone?

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    23 Nov 2025

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    “You,” he states, and swallows. “You can… you can become him, right? You could… you could be Mydei. Just so I can practice. I’ll get it out, the whole thing, and you can, I don’t know, tell me if I sound like half the idiot that I feel like? Maybe?”

    Cipher watches him for a long moment. The alleyway is very quiet, an owl hooting somewhere overhead. “You want me,” she repeats slowly, “to become the man you love… so you can confess to me.”

    (cipher does not, in fact, transform into mydei. she just goes and gets the real one.)

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    21 Nov 2025

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    He turns to Mydei, letting a gentle smile curve on his lips. Mydei’s eyes narrow to slits.

    “Hello there,” Phainon greets softly. He crouches down, inching closer. Mydei doesn’t budge, only tenses like a tightly coiled spring. “My name is Phainon. You’re Mydeimos, right?”

    Mydei doesn’t respond, lips pressed tightly shut. Phainon’s smile wavers, chest squeezing tight.

    “No one’s going to hurt you here,” he murmurs, extending his arm out. Mydei growls. Fear flashes through his eyes for a fleeting second, but it’s enough to have Phainon freezing in place, breath catching in his throat.

    (A mishap at the Abyss of Fate leaves Mydei a child whose only memories are of the Sea of Souls.)

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