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    Baelor is told that he should take a new mate to strengthen his position as pack alpha. He asks Maekar's opinion, as the omega platonically sharing his den and raising his pups. Maekar handles it about as gracefully as one would expect.

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    Two-single parents co-raising their kids who know that the other would never want them. So why are they fighting about it now?

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    "What is the most important thing in a fight?" Istvan asked.

    It was not pure strength, Erik knew. There was a man in Istvan's company, slender and hardly taller than Erik, who was so quick with a shortsword that he always outlasted heavily armored men in the training yard. Not skill, either. It didn't matter how often a man practiced or what he knew about the sword if his opponent was stronger, quicker, didn't have the sun in his eyes, had slipped into his quarters in the night, had planned ahead with poisons or reinforcements—

    Well, there was more, but Erik realized that Istvan didn't necessarily mean a physical fight. Conversations were fights. Istvan said fighting with words was more fun than swords, because the field changed constantly. (Though Erik had seen him kill men with a longsword, and Istvan seemed just as pleased doing that.) Strength mattered in those fights, too, because a man could intimidate with his height and threaten with just a look.

    The answer came to him. Erik sat up straighter.

    "Advantage," he said.

    Erik learns how to swim, how to wield a sword, and what kind of man he wants to be.

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    16 Feb 2026

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    A smudged figure waits in the corner of Erik's eye. Istvan is dressed in black, covered from head to toe with armored limbs and a heavy doublet, but he doesn't reek the way Erik does in the heat. If anything, he smells like nights in camp. Like woodsmoke and a chilly breeze. The comfortable scent of bodies in the same place for too long.

    Istvan buys Erik a gift.

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    "Are you cold?" Henry asked.

    Without armor, in hose and gambeson, he was still an imposing figure: tall and broad, hands stained with dirt and blood, jaw stubbornly stiff. His bare feet were a shock of white in the dirt. He held his helm with both hands, embracing the metal into his belly. His hair was damp with sweat. There was another string of bruises on his throat, shaped like two wide thumbs.

    Hans looked away. The tunic around Henry's knee had darkened. Blood was trickling into the dirt.

    Hans kills a man, prepares for a wedding, and tries to do at least one thing right.

    (Or: five times Hans and Henry didn't share a bed, and one time they did.)

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    Hans scoffs. “Are you often ambushed in your sleep?” Frowning, then, he wonders if it’s true — realizes he doesn’t know.

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    Hans wonders why Henry sleeps in his armor, and the answer takes him on a side quest to Kuttenberg.

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    13 Feb 2026