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    “No,” he says, smiling gently, like he doesn't know how irritating he's being. “Is my room first, da? You should speak with front desk.”

    Hollander stares at him.

    And then he starts to laugh.

    You ask the front desk,” he shoots back, in between his odd wheezes. Ilya's heart starts to pound in double time, because this is not—this cannot be Shane Hollander playing bed chicken with him. Their competitiveness is fierce, to be certain, but surely, Hollander would be the bigger person, no? “This is my fucking room, Rozanov. Wild horses couldn't drag me away.”

    OR: Ilya's apartment is under construction. Shane's in town for a game. It'd be a shame if they somehow had the same hotel room.

    [or, or: we need some more goddamn 'there was only one bed' out here.]

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    11 Jan 2026

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    Ilya glances at Shane, at the way the dying light is catching in his hair, refracting. At that spiderlily mouth, slightly open and curling coyly, two teeth peeked through the dark gap like an American Girl doll. At that shoulder, bare and pale and close enough to touch if Ilya just leaned forward, if he just reached out and took another liberty.

    To touch another person is to say: I know you will die, and I am doing this anyway.

    His mother used to say something like this. About painting.

    Every portrait is an act of faith, Ilyushenka. Faith and futility both.

    contrary to personal preference, ilya gets a roommate.

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    11 Jan 2026

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    Parker used to tell herself bedtime stories.

    Because no one else did, and because the picture books she came across always seemed to paint the dragons as the bad guys. So she made her own, stories where the rules made more sense to her and the characters were more interesting and the dragons were bigger and cooler and winners and always got a happy ending.

     Parker falls in love three times.

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    18 Jun 2025

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    When Shannon died, Eddie learned the hard way that the moment someone died all your chances to make it up to them died with them, all the things you never said and the things you wish you hadn’t. It’s a bit ironic, and certainly unfair, that the missed opportunities only ever manifest in hindsight. And perhaps it’s Eddie’s fatal flaw, that he only ever sees things in retrospect.

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    Eddie is a man with many regrets. He prays that this won't be one of them.

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    30 Apr 2025

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    He doesn’t know how to say it, what Buck means to him, because Buck means everything to him. Buck is where it begins and ends; he has been for a long time, maybe since the well. Maybe before.

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    13 Oct 2024