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    Have you heard? Have you heard?

    They say Lotus Pier is haunted. They say the Yunmeng-Jiang are haunted.

    (Ghost stories are supposed to frighten you. Not make you feel sad, or guilty. But what are the unquiet dead but lingering regrets? What is a restless spirit if not mourners' feelings made manifest?)

    Whose fault was it?

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    19 Jan 2024

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    A great calamity fell upon Qishan Wen. It's said that some of the Wens still live, surviving on turnips and raw hope, but Jiang Cheng has not thought of Qishan Wen in years. He has enough on his mind with securing a lecture for Yunmeng Jiang, and somehow, dealing with Wei Wuxian's nauseating affection for Lan Wangji.

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    18 Jan 2024

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    If the gods were going to take him away from Cersei and everything he’d known, bind him to a boy half his age, Jaime almost would have preferred it if Robb Stark had been a fool, had been as dull and self-righteous as his father. Seven hells, he could at least have been ugly.

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    11 Jan 2024

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    No one drafted him.

     

    He awoke the day after the draft--the first draft that is-- in a dimly lit hospital room, his father passed out in an uncomfortable chair, his mother awake and staring out the window at the hospital parking lot.

     

    No one drafted him.

     

    “It was an accident,” he lied.

     

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    Jack takes an extended road trip.

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    [“No, you’re going to tell me all on your own,” Zuko snaps, shoving Jee again, this time with enough force to rock him back a step. “What am I.”

    “Sir,” Jee grits out as he steps back into his at-rest position in the water, his skin prickling from the spray and bending lashing against him and the barely-contained aggression in the air. “It’s easy to act like a big man when the other person can’t hit you back.”

    “Do it then,” Zuko immediately demands with another shove. “Hit me. I didn’t ask you to hold back.”

    “So you can get me court-martialed?” Jee snaps, fire twisting hot in answer. Like he hasn’t played that fucking game before. He isn’t going to fall for it twice. “I’m not an idiot. Sir.”

    Zuko clearly catches the implication right away this time, flushing all the way up his stupid bald head again before leaning in and hissing right into Jee’s face, “So I don’t have to hear you squalling like a fishmonger’s wi—”

    Jee takes a swing before the words finish leaving the brat’s mouth.]

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    Lieutenant Jee has had it up to here with tiptoeing around Prince Zuko’s stupid, obnoxious, stubborn, childish refusal to listen.

    Zuko has had it up to here with being called a child.

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    22 Dec 2023