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    [Spoilers for C4E31.]

    “You embarrassed me,” Occtis hisses. “You embarrassed me today.”

    The boy is standing over the bed, gaze fixed on the mattress, seeing nothing as his clever mind fixates on some unknown fact of Julien’s prior conduct.

    Julien tries to play the day’s hectic events back through his mind, but their flight from Dol-Makjar was a fearful one plagued by paranoia, so much so that he finds his recall hampered. He’s sure he was an asshole to everyone all day, but he doesn’t remember aiming it at Occtis, at least not on purpose.

    Waiting for Occtis to volunteer information tends to involve more patience than Julien has handy, so he’d might as well ask. “When did I embarrass you?”

    Occtis still doesn’t look at him. “You picked me up like a sack of grain in front of all of our colleagues.”

    Of all the things to have a fight about right now, Julien feels like this isn’t the one he’d personally pick, and a stupid part of him wants to say so. An even stupider part of him wants to point out that that was last night, not today.

    He manages to hold his tongue on these two points, but he can’t keep his ire from his tone. “What did you expect me to do? Leave you behind?”

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    A few weeks earlier, House Tachonis had been wiped from Aramán in a single night, and every last member of the deranged bloodline had been butchered.

    No one knew who—or what—had been powerful enough to commit such a slaughter. Some claimed the family had finally lost control of the undead army they had been secretly raising and that their own creations had turned upon their masters.

    Others, bolder, speaking in hushed tones and only after making certain they could not be overheard, whispered of an estranged son returning to exact his vengeance.

    But those stories were invariably met with scorn, since the idea that the only Tachonis born without sorcerous talent could have annihilated his entire family was laughable.

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    The Seekers return to Dol Makjar, a city divided. Hal is similarly torn as he welcomes home the shadow that once was his brother, and the mask that once was his friend.

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    “There,” Dream-Bolaire says fondly, as blood wells up and spills over the fabric of his shirt as if it’s always been there, waiting for Hal to see the stain. “Doesn’t that feel better?”
    “No,” Hal denies, loud enough to wake himself up.

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    You were stuck with me.

    After six months of that prick insisting Tyranny was lucky to be assigned to him, this kind of talk was worrying.

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    Before the Soldiers leave Dol-Makjar, Tyranny worries about Wicander. She needs him to know she never feels stuck around him, and maybe that makes her realise how she feels about him

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