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Damen had never known tenderness such as this. He had never felt so entirely overwhelmed and grateful for it.
“Laurent,” he said, helplessly, because it was the dearest word he knew.Bookmarked by PeiLo
20 Mar 2026
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Laurent and Damen have a private talk after Laurent finds Damen practicing with Auguste.
There are details about their friendship that Auguste doesn’t need to know about, and Laurent plans to keep it that way. Damen, however, has something else in mind.
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17 Mar 2026
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Laurent has spent the last few years sabotaging his uncle’s plans while he waits for Auguste to become the next king. It takes its toll, but he knows he can’t give up, even if he has to do it alone.
Exhausted and at his limit, he drags himself to his tiny apartment in Marlas where he doesn’t have to be the prince. Next door is a man hiding for his own reasons, and he’s determined to not let Laurent suffer, at least if there’s some way he can help.
An offer for food saves them both.
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17 Mar 2026
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Laurent was six years old when the boy appeared in his fireplace.
Winter had come early in Arles that year. The thick glass pane of his window frosted over in a way that created fractals of light in the morning and made him know that magic was real, the type of magic that ignited his curiosity and emboldened his imagination to feats of whimsy and mischief. The trees outside stood bare; spindly things that cast shadows of twisted unnatural shapes, changing the soft glow of magic into menace that had Laurent drawing the bedcovers to his nose, eyes wide open on alert, then squeezed shut in fear. The shadows reminded him of Auguste’s stories: witches stealing children, wolves crunching bones and eating human flesh, foul creatures lurking in darkness to snatch ankles and drag them under the bed, never to be seen again.
But Auguste had never told him of olive skinned boys falling out of lit fireplaces.
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In which a fated, inexplicable meeting changes the course of history.
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06 Mar 2026
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Damen sometimes wondered what he would do if he ever faced Laurent.
With only three years down from a seemingly endless sentence and nothing but time on his hands, it happened more often than he would have liked. What he would say, or how he might act around him. Sparing Laurent any thought to begin with was bad enough; it was only made worse by the knowledge that he would never have that answer. If there was one thing Damen could be certain of, it was that he would never see Laurent again.
Everything was about to change.
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18 Feb 2026