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summary: a story about ee’s routine visits ap in the void

here’s a hint to think about as you read: there are two doors with two guards. only one door leads to freedom, and the other the dark abyss of the void. one guard always tells the truth, and the other always lies. but which one lies, and which one tells the truth? please read as carefully as you wish. ;)

warnings for sharp objects, emotional manipulation and instability, enabling behaviour, self-hate, existential crises, and implications of one incident of self-harm towards the end, body horror.

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When did it become routine for them to be like this?

Apostasia doesn’t remember Erbluhen’s first visit or his second, or even his third. By the fourth visit, it was enough to be exactly what Erbluhen had quoted Arme Thaumaturgy saying it was, a routine. Apostasia knows the word, of course, but he didn’t understand the implications. What was it? an insult? A statement? An opinion?

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ee disappears, and ath sets out to find him.

When Arme Thaumaturgy wakes one morning, the house doesn’t smell like breakfast.

Instead, he finds the kitchen empty. If Erbluhen wanted to go out this early, he could have reminded Arme last night that he was going out instead of leaving without a single damn word.’

How rude of him.