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    The Vikings invade Lindisfarne Abbey in 793 AD. Erling takes a young Anglo-Saxon monk by the name of Jude as his prisoner.

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    17 Aug 2026

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    Jude wakes in a forest clearing. His clearing. He blinks away the sleep from his eyes. The tremors from his dream slowly lift from his shoulders. He almost turns and stretches to bask in the glow of the midday sun when he hears a scratching against wood behind him. Not wild and imprecise like an animal, a calculated movement. Not the horns of a beast or talons of a bird, but a knife.

    Hunched over on a rock nearby at the base of the stream is the largest man Jude has ever seen. His clean grey-blue tunic is strained across his broad shoulders. Blonde hair falls over his back, two braids pulled back by a leather tie. He’s nothing like anyone Jude has ever seen before.

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    11 Aug 2026

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    In the fallout of their own respective World Cup losses, Erling Haaland and Jude Bellingham have to relearn the bounds of their friendship, especially as it seems to transform into something more.

    It doesn’t help, of course, that the two of them begin to feel as if something unexpected and unavoidable looms in the distance

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    08 Aug 2026

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    „Come up after the tournament. Stay here for a few days.“

    Jude has spent years teaching himself not to look for meaning in late-night messages, birthday calls, and plans that never quite happen.
    Then Erling asks him to come to Manchester, and Jude says yes before he can pretend to think about it.

    In a house Jude knows from video calls but has never entered, with rain against the windows, cold tea on the table, and fajitas waiting in the kitchen, the distance between them finally becomes harder to preserve than to cross.

    Their words may have forgotten how to be close, but their bodies still remember.

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    30 Jul 2026

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    “I’m volunteering,” Enjolras tells him, feeling vaguely sheepish and wondering if he’ll get thrown out now, and if so, what will he tell Monsieur Valjean. He holds up his knife roll and apron as proof.

    “Oh, are you now?” The man turns back to him with a smirk. “That’s just lovely. Community service, probably. Bet you don’t know a thing about food.”

    Enjolras does not dignify this with a response. If this idiot doesn’t recognize him from the review in the Observer, he’s not going to spell it out. Instead, he turns away to tie on his apron and lay out his knives. “You won’t need those,” the man says behind him. “Not that I’d trust you to use them, anyway.” Enjolras grits his teeth and puts his paring knife on his steel, honing the already sharp blade. The rasping does nothing to drown out the mocking voice behind him. “Do you know how many people you could have fed with what those knives cost?”

    Enjolras whirls, rage rising. “Do you know how many people I’ve fed with these knives?” he growls. “Do you know anything at all?”

    Enjoltaire meets The Bear

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    30 Jun 2026