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  1. Public Bookmark 7

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    Kip had never been this reserved for me. Nervous and uncertain, yes, but not reserved. He was still mine, and I needed him to remember that. “What have you to say for yourself?”

    He hesitated, and I gave him the time. If he was going to resist the pull of the leash, then I was willing to draw this out as long as necessary to understand why.

    “Your Radiancy,” he said, “I have come to beg a boon of you.” He stopped there, waiting. I was frozen, trapped behind you, who held yourself in perfect stillness. The creeping uncertainty was coiling in the pit of my stomach, and I needed you to contain it. When I didn’t answer, he continued. “Your Radiancy, I have come to ask you to remove my collar, and release me from your service.”
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    The long journey home after the Fall gave Kip time to think about the nature of his relationship with his Radiancy, but when he returned to Solaara to ask for his freedom, his Radiancy was not enthusiastic about letting him go. With Kip only partially released from his Radiancy’s service, both he and the Emperor must come to grips with what has happened, and find a way to live with it.

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    22 Feb 2026

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  2. Public Bookmark 1

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    "Hit me again," Kip snarled, "Like you want to and I want you too."

    Conju hit him again.

    Side scene taking place during Chapter 6 of mantrasong's amazing Until Love Stops Screaming.

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    07 May 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 4

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    Kip curled at the edge of the great bed of the Emperor of Astandalas and wondered why his stomach still lurched as though he were falling.

    It was nothing physical. The surface of the bed was secure beneath him, the coverlet warm, the pillows astonishingly comfortable.

    He had not known what to expect when he asked the Emperor to continue this pretence of taking him as a concubine. All he knew was that there was a danger to himself, his home, and his family if the nobility of the Empire saw him rejected by the Sun-on-Earth. And so Kip had asked, and the Emperor had agreed.

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    07 May 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 3

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    The Navy ship sailed into Gorjo City harbour on a lovely Monday afternoon. Everyone still remembered Aurelius Magnus coming to ask Elonoa'a to show him the way to Colhélhé. So even if they had little success, nobody resented the Navy trying to recruit. It was good to be remembered as seafarers.

    It wasn't until dusk that rumours started flowing down from the Palace. And not in the chattering of children, or the smirks of young men. In the dark looks shared by the elders, and the whispers of servants to trusted messengers.

    The Navy is to collect a special tithe. For the ascension of the new Emperor, Shallyr.

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    25 Apr 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 17

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    The roses had withered long since.

    Two lonely men, adrift at the end of the world.

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    written for the kink meme prompt: Ludvic has been out in the world for quite a while now. He’s gotten used to the idea of men having sex with each other (he thinks). Doing that himself, though, has always been a step too far. (Probably.)

    But it’s the end of the world, and if he’s going to break his own rules, he may as well break them with the one aristocrat in this entire palace who is capable of propositioning him without making him feel like some kind of museum exhibit.

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    18 Apr 2026