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    It’s almost impossible to predict Kaveh’s behaviour: he either grabs Alhaitham by the arm right away and takes him to look at the new drafts, or has no reaction to him at all, as if he wasn’t there; either asks Alhaitham about each and every (and barely) acquaintance, or struggles to remember the name of the family, looking after him. The great architect becomes the greatest riddle Alhaitham has ever encountered.
    There’s only one thing that remains constant: Kaveh is not getting better.

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    31 Aug 2024

  2. Public Bookmark 70

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    The Ten Stonehearts of the IPC's Strategic Investment Department aren't all that close - at least, not according to the Pier Point rumour mill or interastral tabloids. Emotional connections between them would only be a weakness in their... riskier transactions, so it works out nicely that the best thing you can really say about any of their relationships is that they're professional and cordial. And those who might say differently rarely get a chance to tell the tale.

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    14 Aug 2024

  3. Public Bookmark 58

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    “Doesn’t matter how smart or careful you are, Doctor.”

    “It most certainly does matter. Had I paid more attention to my surroundings rather than being an-”

    “Don't tell me — even the eminent Dr. Veritas Ratio has fallen victim to the myth that 'things like this' could only ever happen to 'people like that'?"

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    09 Aug 2024

  4. Public Bookmark 39

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    Superstitious people read power into threes. A witch always grants three wishes, a curse always lasts three days, and Xipe's glimmering melody manifests with three faces. There is some abstract truth to it all, even to Ratio's mathematical mind. A prime always exudes a sense of finality—or perhaps importance—because it refuses to be factored down into something smaller. It demands respect.

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    01 Aug 2024

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    It began with the gifts.

    Ratio was aware this was a tactic Aventurine employed with all his professional relationships. On his rare visits to Pier Point, Ratio had occasionally caught sight of Aventurine delivering wrapped packages from desk to desk. When they had begun to work together, he had received some expensive, trendy knick knacks himself that he had been all too happy to misplace.

    From then on, he noticed Aventurine’s habit more often: the way he’d take the time to gather up those gifts on long shopping trips, as well as his preference for opening negotiations with a few lavish presents in a show of both goodwill and power.

    And he noticed the way that his occasional, persistent gifts to Ratio increased in specificity.

    Aventurine is clearly infatuated with him. Naturally, Ratio has a duty to nip this nonsense in the bud.

    Unsurprisingly, Ratio has the hots for him. For the Doctor’s sake, Aventurine will have to shut him down.

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    01 Aug 2024