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    Kaz was out of town when the Komedie Brute decided to have audacity in spades.
    Later, Wylan thought this was probably best. Giving the actors a grace period of about a week without having to worry about the presence of Kaz was probably a good thing.
    The real Kaz, that was.
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    (The Komedie Brute, Ketterdam’s favourite theatrical troupe, opens this year’s season with the addition of a new character to their lineup… starting this Ghezen’s Day, come to the staves to see Ketterdam’s very own urban legend– Dirtyhands, the Bastard of the Barrel!)

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    19 May 2026

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    The kid in front of Haskell’s desk was hell to look at— a plague orphan, he could tell that much. His face and neck were still marred with the slightly reddish pits that the pox left behind, even months later, and he was gaunt with sickness and malnutrition, bones jutting hard and nasty. They’d have pinned him down as a weakling, before the plague. But that was before. Now, in the miserable, scraping afterwards, not only was he alive, but half the gambling halls and gangs on the Lid were desperate to have him— or so Seeger said, anyway. Haskell didn’t know why this kid wanted to be in the Dregs, when the Razorgulls were practically throwing cash at him, but he wasn’t going to count his chickens. Maybe he preferred crows to gulls.

    (the rise of dirtyhands, as witnessed by per haskell)

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    19 May 2026

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    “I don’t know how he knows, but I can trust him,” said Inej firmly. “His information will be sound.”
    “It better be," said the Heartrender. "You’re still human like every other man, Brekker. I could crush your heart in a second.”
    Kaz looked blankly at her for a moment.
    “You sound so sure,” he said.
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    Kaz gets wind of a planned ambush. With precisely zero good grace, he goes to help Inej and her crew.
    In Lij.
    He's about as happy about it as her crew are; which is to say, not happy at all.

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    19 May 2026

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    A love song. Who the hell was listening to such whimsy, amongst the murderers and the thugs of the Barrel?
    (You are, and you’re the cruelest of them all.)
    Kaz scowled into the darkness of the room. It’s not like he had much choice, unless he opened the window and shot the singer.

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    Most sensible people avoid the Barrel during major celebrations, out of a healthy sense of self-preservation and fondness for their limbs and wallets. Kaz, on the other hand, does not have the luxury of avoiding everyone else's good cheer. What he does have is a useless gang full of teenage idiots, an irritatingly persistent three-legged dog, a few memories he'd rather forget, and a time limit.

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    “Before what?” demanded Jordie.
    Inej’s gaze bored into them, for a moment. Finally, she said:
    “Before I try to convince Kaz that you’re not imposters, that he should have strangled and thrown into the harbour.”
    Jordie’s neck prickled, thinking of the hard-eyed stare in the Crow Club.
    “I’ve been in enough harbours for one lifetime, thank you.” he said.
    He was rewarded with a very faint smile.
    “...you’re not as dissimilar as he’d like, you know.”
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    besting impossible odds is apparently a genetic trait, because jordie is definitely not as dead as kaz thought.
    or dead at all.

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    18 May 2026