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Here is the end of month summary for July! :D
give me mercy no more (1)
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âYou canât do this.â
Janus paused for the briefest moment at the sound of his closest friendâs voice, before continuing to pack away rations.
âCanât I?â he asked airily, not turning around to face Virgil.
Heâd known this confrontation was inevitable since theyâd come up with the only possible solution to their kingdomâs problem. He hadnât realized how unprepared heâd feel even now, with the hour of tribute rapidly approaching.
est. release date: September 16, 2023
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just a little rush (1)
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Patton wiggled his shoulder through the bars and craned his neck, straining to get a good enough angle to see the other half of the clock across the room.
Enough of the clockâs face was visible that he could guess the time most of the day, except for the stretch of time in which both the hour and minute hands were out of sight. Patton wasnât usually overly concerned about the loss; Normally, it didnât really matter either way.
Now, when it had been what felt like ages since heâd last seen Remus, it mattered a lot more.
Of course Remus had chosen the most inconvenient timing possible to stage his latest escape attempt. Patton would smile if he wasnât so worried.
est. release date: September 23, 2023
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a little trust (goes a long way)
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Fidget knew it was a bad idea from the very start.
He shouldnât even have entertained such a ridiculous notion for a moment, and yet somehow heâd not only done so, but heâd also allowed it to roll around in his mind until it became an entire, fully-fledged plan.
A plan that was absolutely going to get him killed.
He was crouched in the shadows of one of the supply stacks sitting on the edge of the second level, meaning he had a perfect view of the containment yard and its current resident.
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every good intention (4)
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Roman had been thinking.
Contemplating, really. There were a surplus of mystifying elements to consider as of late, especially now that heâd found out about Logan and Anxietyâs secret tryst.
(He was fairly certain that platonic cuddling between a repressed nerd and an awkward emo didnât actually qualify as a tryst, but it sounded much more dramatic that way.)
He was no Logic, but as a charming and exceptional denizen of Thomasâs mind, he naturally had wits aplenty of his own.
And so arrived his realization: When it came to the puzzle that was his interactions with Anxiety the past few weeks, there was a pattern.
est. release date: September 30, 2023
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to know that song (and all itâs words) (10)
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âYou hurt him,â Patton said, and he barely even recognized the sound that came out of him as his own voice.
Whatever the leader alien was saying was lost to the distant buzzing in Pattonâs head. Loganâs response made it through, just barely. His voice had dropped into that icy pitch that meant he was well and truly angry, an ominous tone that made something primal and hunted in the back of Pattonâs mind shiver to life.
Be ready, it said. Weâll have to fight soon.
est. release date: October 7, 2023
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the roots of something greener (1)
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The first time the child found him, Janus was already in a foul mood.
The day had started out with a light drizzle, and as the hours crept by, it had slowly grown into a far more irritating downpour.
This wouldnât have been anything near a problem for most fae, and certainly a meager handful of years ago, Janus would have hardly spared it a fleeting thought. Even if he didnât care to waste any magic on a simple repelling spell, he could have simply slipped between realms, abandoning that particular stretch of human land until the storm passed.
Now that he was banished and bound, however, his options were far more limited.
est. release date: October 14, 2023
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just a little rush (2)
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Remus hated to admit it, but Pattycakes had been right.
He definitely should have waited a little longer before trying for his next escape attempt.
It was the woulda-coulda-shoulda sort of regret that he didnât usually waste time on. He was well aware of how many of his plans were bonafide bad ideas, and he generally went through with them anyhow.
The alternative was letting the fire ants under his skin grow more and more intolerable until he ended up doing the dumb thing anyway, but even more recklessly. It wasnât so much a âchoiceâ as it was a âdelay of the inevitableâ.
After all, he was the only one getting hurt in the end, right?
est. release date: October 21, 2023
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WIBAR Intermission: Visiting Home (1/3)
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Despite the tension buzzing at the back of his skull, Virgil found that being planetside again was surprisingly⌠nice.
He would have preferred that it was an uninhabited areaâ or at least, that it wasnât one of the only places in the universe that had aliens he really, really couldnât afford to terrifyâ but he couldnât deny that feeling the ground under his feet and the sunlight on his skin was soothing, a balm he hadnât known heâd needed.
It wasnât the same as Earth, not really, but Pattonâs home planet was close enough to familiar that he found tension seeping from his overwrought muscles despite himself.
He shook some of the dazed contentment off, flicking a glance over his shoulder and reminding himself that if any of the locals saw him, it could spell Capital-D Disaster.
est. release date: October 28, 2023
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