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    Old and new chatfics alike, none of these take place in the same universe unless specified.

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  1. Public Bookmark 16

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    That one night Clara spent locked in with Daniil in his room, except they talk some more.

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    09 Feb 2026

    Bookmarker's Notes

    an extended meeting between clara and daniil, to prove her innocence (of infecting people with the plague). Manages to toe the line between Clara as a child, Clara as herself the Changeling and miracle-worker, and Daniil's mix of desperation and disbelief. And his funky weird expression of care lol

  2. Public Bookmark 12

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    Clara bit her lip.  She had been turned out of her home, replaced with another orphan.  She left the Saburovs willingly to protect them, only to be abandoned as thanks for her good deed.  Her parents had given her nothing, not even a roof over her head.  But the Bachelor was an idiot.  He didn’t remind her of these things to hurt her.  He reopened wounds in ignorance.  He had no idea Clara had been disowned, and she wasn’t about to tell him.

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    Dankovsky finds out that Clara has been living on the streets after being disowned and takes her in. Along the way, they must work together to stop the Saburovs from destroying the Cathedral.

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    09 Feb 2026

    Bookmarker's Notes

    daniil adopts clara fic :(((((( daniil clara family :(((((( wuagh...

  3. Public Bookmark 7

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    He’s about to cross the bridge when he hears crying - a child, no doubt, he realises, and scans his surroundings. He’d done his best to numb the instinct during those twelve days, tried to wipe himself clean of the guilt when he’d brushed past sobbing children on their knees, curled up in alleys and dying of plague their mothers and fathers gave them. He’d reasoned with himself, as many times as he’d needed, that he would save more lives if he endeavoured for a cure, rather than waste time comforting sick little children.

    In which the Bachelor draws comparisons between himself and a sick, lonely Changeling.

     

    Day 7: "I'm still not used to being taken care of."

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    09 Feb 2026

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    daniil finds clara in the cold and takes her back to the stillwater oneshot

  4. Public Bookmark 16

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    Faith — there's not much else to have. He's not sure how much Burakh wants it from him—if he even wants it at all. But the days go, and the lives with them. He's not sure what else couldn't fault him. He misses, almost, Death as it once was — an almost placid force that he knew [...] he could stand up to. [...] Death, back then, was winning more often than not (well, it always won in the end, but the Bachelor could put up a fight), but it was, mostly, a fair foe.
    But this was—this is no Death. This is Conquest, Pestilence.
    (The black night mare, dusk after dusk, bleeds out her colors, pales like a wet ink stain patted then rubbed dry; like bone slowly sun-bleached. She turns the color of blood-stained enamel, of the rot of a cavity.
    Rot, rot, rot. To the bone, to the marrow. [...])

    The Bachelor weaves in and out of the story, between its lines — where the story develops.
    A Bachelor-centric study of the Plague in mythified half-vignettes, for when one is faced with the un(com)prehensible it is always easier to see things through someone’s worse, and sadder story.

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    09 Feb 2026

    Bookmarker's Notes

    absolutely insane reference filled poem of a story about daniil dankovsky and artemy and yet mostly just daniil. Very delightful. So many references that went straight over my head but SO good. Daniil gets the plague at one point near the beginning too

  5. Public Bookmark 55

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    “… I’d say good morning,” Dankovsky said at length, a little hoarsely, “but I’m afraid I’ve lost track of the time. Good … something, Haruspex.”

    “Afternoon. You look—” Artemy began, and broke off.

    “Yes? What ghoulish thing do I resemble today?” Daniil blew out some smoke, staring pensively ahead. “A striga, perhaps.”

    “—better,” Artemy finished. “Less like you’d gone already, and are only haunting me.”

    That shut Daniil’s mouth.

    [Or: a rendezvous with danger, one very cold winter.]

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    07 Feb 2026

    Bookmarker's Notes

    the one with the sick poem linked at the end; mel rec'd it
    in which daniil dankovsky does not freeze to death (ft slight background murky & daniil interactions)