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  1. Public Bookmark 45

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    There are many alcoves in the castle that Hans has dragged him to, many locked doors and silent places where they meet in secret, away from prying eyes and pricked and eager ears.

    This is not one of them.

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    30 Aug 2025

  2. Public Bookmark 92

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    Erik’s alive, and he can’t eat. The last thing he had today was his mother’s breakfast.

    An exploration into the early days between Erik and Ištván.

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    10 Jul 2025

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    "Are you cold?" Henry asked.

    Without armor, in hose and gambeson, he was still an imposing figure: tall and broad, hands stained with dirt and blood, jaw stubbornly stiff. His bare feet were a shock of white in the dirt. He held his helm with both hands, embracing the metal into his belly. His hair was damp with sweat. There was another string of bruises on his throat, shaped like two wide thumbs.

    Hans looked away. The tunic around Henry's knee had darkened. Blood was trickling into the dirt.

    Hans kills a man, prepares for a wedding, and tries to do at least one thing right.

    (Or: five times Hans and Henry didn't share a bed, and one time they did.)

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    22 May 2025

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    For twenty years, Henry of Skalitz was forgotten—buried in darkness, bound in rusted chains, waiting for rescue that never came.

    Hans Capon never stopped looking for Henry—never stopped chasing ghosts, never stopped losing hope, never stopped failing. And now, his son has done what he could not.

    Heinrich expected to find a prisoner. Instead, he found a ruin of a man—too frail to stand, too lost to recognize his own name. He takes Henry, carries him into the world he once knew.

    Henry has been found. But can men so thoroughly broken be saved?

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    16 May 2025

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    “Still your tongue—”

    “Thoughts back on my tongue so soon, my lord? Tell me,”—Henry’s mouth twists into a smile, acrid and full of bite in a way that makes Hans’ blood pool at the base of him, half tempered from just a look. He leans in, breath so hot against Hans’ ear it makes him shiver—“how many heirs will you waste down my throat before you’ll admit to yourself you like putting them there?”

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    07 May 2025