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The desert sun appears and bleaches the night. You have not been captured. You are not dead. There is a road, or the idea of a road, and there, there just ahead: the spire, the fortress. You cannot determine its distance. It shimmers in mirage. With one step it is minutes away. With the next it slides backward, receding into the horizon, into geological time, light-years, an obscene trick of perspective. You have seen this before, in a garden maze designed to deceive the eye. André Le Nôtre’s decelerated perspective, the Hercules statue that retreats as you approach. Gozaburo had taken you and Mokuba there under the pretence of culture but the lesson had been, as always, political. He had wanted you both to meditate on the execution of Louis XVI. This is what happens, he had said in so many words, when a people decide their rulers are no longer tolerable. This is what rage does to proportion. This is how the head of a king becomes a point on a horizon that everyone agrees to walk toward.
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Kaiba awakens from his Mind Crush coma and considers his revenge. Pre-Death T.
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Our Bodies Entwining, Defenseless and Silent by shadow13 for MostRemote
Fandoms: The Phantom of the Opera (1983), Le Fantôme de l'Opéra | Phantom of the Opera & Related Fandoms
11 Dec 2025
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A ghost appeared in her tawdry little room, and suddenly Maria’s identity had become fractured like light through the facets of a gem.
(1983 Made-for-TV movie of The Phantom of the Opera)
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Kaiba sits out PhysEd and has complicated feelings about watching Jounouchi do sports.
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Jounouchi finds Kaiba's Wikipedia entry during IT class. War breaks out.
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Sometimes, Seto still wishes to be cared for. Hopefully someone is there to do that.