What We Do in the After
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Ephemera /əˈfem(ə)rə/ noun: something of no lasting significance.
Capella and Khan wait out a storm with no one but each other for company.
(Set after the Diurnal Ending for Patho 2)
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- Part 1 of What We Do in the After
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Absence makes the heart grow fonder. Distance allows for perspective.
Capella accompanies her father on a season-long business trip to the capital in the Winter following the Plague. She and Khan keep up a correspondence while she’s away.
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- Part 2 of What We Do in the After
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Isidor had once asked him, “Why does a child throw a tantrum? Why do they act out against the people that want what is best for them?”
And Khan had answered from experience, “Because they are afraid.”
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- Part 3 of What We Do in the After
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" If you want me to tell you, I’d have to play the part of the Devil. And you’d have to give me your soul.”
Khan and Capella commiserate over the comical mishandling of the more normal lessons in life. They were taught to be leaders, to be attuned to the supernatural, but when it came to being future adults their teachers often forgot. Perhaps not thinking they'd make it this far.
Navigating a relationship is much more difficult when one has to learn-as-they-go. And sometimes cutting corners is necessary, regardless of future consequences.
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- Part 4 of What We Do in the After
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“If at first you don’t succeed, kill the you that fails.” Simon had said that to him once. Perhaps more than once. Either way, Khan never forgot it. It had, inadvertently, become the mantra he lived by for that dubious period between ten and sixteen.
There had been so many Khans that had failed. So many self-same deaths at his feet.
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- Part 5 of What We Do in the After
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A series of bad decisions have even worse consequences when Vlad the Elder invites several well-off dignitaries from the capital to town in hopes of finding investments both for his family and his Enterprise. Khan and Capella, amid that cavalcade of strangers, are forced to be more honest with themselves and each other than they had ever intended to be.
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- Part 6 of What We Do in the After
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