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  1. Rec 5

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    What does it mean to live in someone else's happy ending?

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    18 Mar 2026

  2. Rec 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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    04 Mar 2026

  3. Rec 12

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    “You would be willing to change? You would accept me into you and birth new miracles?”

    “Yes.” Daniil whispered. Anything to bring back the Polyhedron, that spark of hope.

     

    Dankovsky unwittingly makes a deal with Boddho. Now he is changing and no one is ready for the consequences such a transformation will bring.

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    01 Mar 2026

  4. Rec 13

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    After a train trip back to campus, Artemy and Daniil perform a quick dissection and part for the night until Artemy finds Daniil alone in the library.

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    18 Feb 2026

  5. Rec 20

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    So what if his former associates thought of him as a lowlife? So what if he was disgraced from academia? So long as he was still welcomed back into the town-on-Gorkhon, nothing else mattered.
    With quivering hands, he picked up the letter and carefully opened it as though he was afraid something would jump out at him from inside it. But nothing had changed, it was the exact same as when he had first read it a week ago.

    Bachelor Daniil Dankovsky,
    There is another way.
    — Victoria Olgimskaya Sr., The Light Mistress.

    Yes, there was hope for him still, and hope he would cling to till death did them part.

    ———

    Over a year later, Daniil Dankovsky returns to the Town, with a letter from a dead woman and a ticking time bomb inside his own body, in a last-ditch effort to defeat death.

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    17 Feb 2026