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    “Let’s start with the basics,” Blade says. “A simple question. If you saw someone lying, unmoving, on a street, what would you do?”

    March shoots up a hand. “Go and help them!”

    “Too vague.”

    “Call the authorities,” says Sunday.

    “There’s no signal.”

    “Beg an Aeon for a favour!” Stelle shouts.

    “...what??”

    Blade gets a new Script: host a first-aid class for the disaster quartet of the Astral Express. It goes about as well as you'd expect.

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    "Is it true?" he asks.

    "Which part?" Doe replies. "I swallowed a Narin? True. Gyeousari smiting me down from the sky? Also true. Ludi found out and cried for half an hour? Heh, well, I'm surprised she even managed to stop—"

    "Is it true," Qilin interrupts. "That Gyeousari is slowly killing you?"

    Doe's mouth snaps shut with an audible click.

    Qilin learns about Gyeousari and Doe is forced to make an impossible decision. That is, if she and Qilin manage to survive a battle against some rogue Knights first.

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    It’s only now that Dan Heng realises how outmatched they truly are.

    He staggers to his feet, using his spear as a crutch as March runs forward to help him. His eyes snap to Stelle. She’s breathing heavily, standing stock-still and Dan Heng’s heart lurches with fear.

    Painted on her face is an emotion he’s never seen from her before. Defeat.

    Dan Heng's view of the Phantasmoon Games, and the conversation between him and Stelle that takes place once the mission has ended.

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    “I told you before,” says Yao Guang. She grabs the unfinished crepe from his hand and boldly takes a bite from it – his wings flap helplessly at her forwardness. The General is certainly a character. “I saw how much you wanted the mask. I only served to fulfill your wish.”

    “No other reason? Truly?”

    There’s a winning glint in her eye that enthralls him more than he cares to admit. “Want to use your tuning and find out?”

    Yao Guang and Sunday have a talk about each other and the Phantasmoon Games.

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    Dan Heng kicks off from the wall and begins walking again, a small frown creasing his brow.

    “I am not a simp,” he retorts.

    Silver Wolf snorts into her slushie. “Blade. Bladie. You hearing this? Mr. ‘I miss my wife’ is trying to defend his record-level yearning.”

    Blade has clearly decided that he’s had enough, because he shuts his eyes and does not reply.

    Dan Heng, having being tasked with keeping an eye on that man, meets up with the Stellaron Hunters.

    He misses Stelle. It definitely does not show on his face.

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    "The beach?" Blade asks, when Kafka suggests the idea. "We have a dangerous mission coming up. Are you sure you want to go?"

    "Wolfie and Stelle want to attend an open-air gaming convention nearby," Kafka smiles. "And Caelus wants to wrestle a shark."

    Blade rolls his eyes, and dutifully packs lunch for them all. Maybe they can buy rock candy from a stall somewhere — Kafka enjoys that. She also enjoys throwing food near the seating area to entice the seagulls into a chaotic frenzy, laughing maniacally all the while. They've been banned from at least six beaches that way.

    "What about Elio?" he asks.

    "Oh? He's coming of course," Kafka grins. "It was his idea."

    The Stellaron Hunters drag Elio into all their shenanigans, and like any dutiful leader, he obliges.

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    She blinks again, once, twice. A flash of red hair, a familiar cane, a sheepish expression half-hidden by wings. Her legs — stiff and weak from lack of use — give way as she steps forward, but before she can fall, a familiar hand is grabbing her elbow and dragging her into his arms.

    "Stelle," Dan Heng mutters against her hair.

    "Dan Heng," she whispers. A lump rises in her throat, as she clutches tightly to him. He smells of home.

    That's where she is — home.

    The Astral Express family reunite again, and slowly begin to recover after the events of Amphoreus.

    A.K.A. The obligatory post 3.7 fic :)

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    Dan Heng, High Elder of the Luofu, has faced Phantylia before, has stared evil in the face. He's seen the psychotic glee that fills the eyes of a Lord Ravager — sometimes he still sees it in his nightmares.

    There is none of that in this Ravager's eyes. What there is, is…

    A deep, desperate sadness.

    And in that moment, Dan Heng makes the most stupidly reckless decision he's ever made in his life.

    A Lord Ravager tries to kill a High Elder.

    (Stelle and Dan Heng live through a different, tragic Script.)

    Day Four: Lord Ravager and High Elder

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    "The Blemished One and their pawns are on the move. We were tracking their movements just the other day."

    He has no words for that. Truthfully, Jiaoqiu knows that they will be thrust into war in as soon as five years' time — it is written in the fates, the very stars.

    That small war medic inside of him remembers war better than he remembers the face of his own mother.

    Jiaoqiu and Feixiao talk about the prospect of an Aeonic war.

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    "Come in," Herta says with a roll of her eyes.

    The door slides open, and in walks a hooded figure, gaunt face shadowed by dusty fabric. He looks up just a fraction, and Herta, despite herself, shivers. His gaze is still as piercing as ever.

    "Elio," she says.

    It's not a greeting.

    After the events of Amphoreus, Herta gets an unexpected visitor.

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    “Dan Heng!” she screams.

    Everything.

    “I’ll find you!” Dan Heng shouts, shouts it even as the breath is punched from his lungs and he’s dragged back through the caverns of time. 

    “Wait for me, Stelle! I will find you again!”

    Dan Heng and Stelle both get trapped in Evernight's memoria world.

    For 1000 years.

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    Dan Heng does not say "I love you".

    Why would he?

    Five times Dan Heng doesn't say "I love you" and the one time he does.

    Day Seven: Free Day

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    "I love you, Dan Heng," Stelle says, through both words and actions. Over and over, every single day.

    And Dan Heng smiles and replies with: "Have you eaten?" or "What did you do today?" or "I have a new Log to show you".

    ("I love you too," he says.) 

    And all is well.

    Until the final Script arrives.

    Stelle goes through time loops, as Elio tries to perfect the right Script. In every loop, Dan Heng loves her and in every loop, a part of Stelle wishes he didn't.

    Day Six: Time Travel

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    They run past the bubbling, gurgling river, past the falling leaves that swirl in dizzying circles around them, carried by the wind with their hearts pounding. Dan Heng's eyes meet Stelle's — her expression is fever-bright.

    "I told you it'd be exciting," Stelle whispers.

    ...

    The Knight and the Prince run for their freedom, away from their Destiny. They've escaped the castle. For a second Dan Heng thinks they might actually pull this off—

    Until they round a corner and he smacks right into the stomach of someone standing in their way.

    Dan Heng, second son of the King and Stelle, his loyal Knight, try and run from their Destinies.

    And then Stelle dies in battle and Dan Heng's world ends.

    Day Five: Knight x Prince

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    March glances over at them, prodding her cheek to check if her mask is dry. "You guys talk about the most boring things."

    "The biology of the twenty-legged Asdanian cephalopod is very interesting actually," Stelle argues, lips curling up into a smile.

    "There's no way you actually enjoy that kind of stuff!" March answers, pointing an accussing finger at Stelle. "Admit it! You just like hearing Dan Heng's voice when he explains stuff to you."

    Dan Heng's hand stills in Stelle's hair.

    Stelle begins to host Pampering Evenings on the Express.

    Day Three: Domestic Life

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    Death, death, death, is he searching for nothing more than a ghost?

    That same animal sound of grief rises in his throat, bubbles up behind his tongue. Now the man before him looks distressed, reaching out for him with a hand. Dan Heng shrinks away. 

    "Where is she?" Dan Heng says. It comes out as a sob. "Is she dead?"

    "Who?" asks the unfamiliar man, his voice infinitely gentle.

    Dan Heng wakes up from a nightmare, and can't see the person he's supposed to be finding.

    Day Two: Seperation Anxiety

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    "Stop that," he groans, his tail coming around to curve around her side. A dragon with a heart of gold, that's who she married. Stelle wouldn't have it any other way. "People are staring."

    "Let them stare," she says.

    Dan Heng and Stelle get married for the second time, with all the chaos one might expect.

    Day One: Wedding

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    The man known as Cerulean Qilin Zius stands with his arm outstretched, a sinking feeling spreading through his bones.

    A single thought runs through his mind.

    What have I done?

    Qilin accidentally punches a hole through Doe's stomach, and then begins to avoid her as guilt consumes him.

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    But a cell is not a home. And a birthday is not a celebration if there is no-one there to celebrate.

    "Huh," Stelle says. She's biting down on her lip with a little furrow between her brows — something she does when she's thinking deeply. Dan Heng has it written down in his log.

    Stalker, he can hear March joke in his head, and almost unconsciously he rolls his eyes.

    "Well why don't we make the day everyone joined the Express their birthdays?" Stelle offers.

    The Astral Express crew plan a surprise birthday party for Dan Heng!

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    "Careful Dan Heng," Evernight says. "If you act that bitter, people might actually believe you're jealous."

    She's met with a draconic scowl.

    "…I just don't trust Aventurine. That's all. He threatened to harm Stelle once."

    The possessive look on his face paints an entirely different story.

    Evernight tries to get March's two best friends together, except if they keep skirting around the elephant in the room she might actually pull out a gun and shoot someone.

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