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If you asked Porsche what it was to be the head of the minor family, he'd call it tiring.
For the first few weeks, he thinks it won't always be a blur of names, faces, and numbers. The dogs in town may have barked for Gun, but everyone in Bangkok understands that Korn is the kennel master. When he asks his contacts to come meet his nephew (Porsche hates being called that), they come. Soon, Porsche thinks, he’ll have finally run out of fat old men with thumb rings, and Porsche can start getting them straight in his head, but finally never seems to come. Korn is really fucking connected.
Kinn sits at the head of the long table, but it's at Korn's elbow that Porsche starts to learn. The old man ran guns and drugs for decades before becoming a professorial grandfather living above the clouds. He has a way of making the numbers seem easy.
(And if it's easier for Porsche to accept his authority than it is to admit that Kinn is a little more equal than him, well. No one asks Porsche to say that out loud.)
Or: Big lives. Somehow this makes life much worse and much better for Porsche.
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- Part 2 of The Moon Shimmers
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Smith is a Freshman majoring in foreign languages and is going to be playing as a Defensive Dealer for the Palmetto State Foxes this year. It's not going to be a big deal that he knows Russian...right?
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Serendipity is an unplanned fortunate discovery, but what it really is about is this: if something is meant to be, it will happen.
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Porsche wants nothing to do with the mafia, so he refuses the offer to be Kinn's bodyguard. And then he runs into him. And runs into him. And runs into him. -
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“What?” He rasps. “Why would I do that?”
“I don’t know, why does anyone break into people’s houses?” The man snarks. “To steal my things? To kill me?”
Chay blinks, gears inside his mind whirring. “I – you – what? No! I would never, I just – I just…” It’s then, finally, that the realisation dawns on him, and he feels his eyes widening, horrified. “You mean you weren’t trying to attract trick-or-treaters? This is just – your house? It just looks like this?”
For a brief moment, the man doesn’t answer, and through his rising panic, Chay swears he looks amused. Then –
“No, I wasn’t trying to attract trick-or-treaters. My house really just looks like this.”
“Oh my God.” Chay’s hands fly to his mouth, then his hair, gripping in disbelief. “Oh my God. I just broke into your house."
or, kim is a vampire and lives in a big vampirey house, and chay accidentally breaks into it because he thinks it's for trick-or-treaters.
he keeps coming back.
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To say that Big wakes up would be a strong overstatement of what happens. He’s mostly dead, and then he’s slightly less dead and can open his eyes sometimes, and then he’s only half-dead.
The few weeks he’s half-dead would probably be the worst, if Big had any recollection of them after he gets out of the hospital. He knows that he asks over and over where Ken is, and every time the staff tell him, and every time a little piece of him dies.
And then he goes back to sleep, and like a goldfish he forgets and they do it all again. It happens so many times it sticks with him even though practically nothing else from half-dead does.
And then suddenly, he’s not half-dead. He’s mostly alive. His brain gets its shit together and he can operate his arms and legs, and speak, if a little slurringly. He regains episodic memory and is profoundly embarrassed that he’s been told upwards of thirty times that Ken is dead. In all that, he never asked after Khun Kinn.
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Big lives. This changes less than one might think.
Series
- Part 1 of The Moon Shimmers