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  1. Public Bookmark 55

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    Daniel reaches his hand out for Armand to take. They wait a few moments in silence as the world stops moving around them. The animals hush. The air stills. A faint smell of smoky dust drops from the sky and lifts from the ground. Rural Armenia has always been too quiet for Armand, but this is to a level where noise itself seems to atrophy into a cold, nightmare-like state.

    Armand takes his hand, and the usual dampened sounds of movement are stark in this nothingness.

    “It's okay to admit you're scared,” says Daniel. His deep and rumbling voice. Armand keens for it in the lamplight.

    Armand and Daniel are at home when the bell tolls.

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    24 Dec 2024

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    Sometimes Master's restless sleep will wake both of them. They'll sit together in the stillness of night and Master will tell her stories that don't make sense about animals she's never heard of, places she's never been—an imaginary world with no people at all. What do birds eat, if not carrion? What do animals do but stink, shit, and fight for food?

    "That's where I come from," Master adds.

    Gu Xiang yawns. "But not me."

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    20 Dec 2024

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    In Delhi it was haram to paint the face of God. In Venice to be holy you first had to be beautiful. In this way Marius was a god in his own right; and Amadeo, the little Christ hanging on his arm.

    Neither God nor beauty are allowed in the catacombs. It’s the first lesson Santino teaches him.

    [Armand and youth and looking pretty]

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    And then there’s a creak of the door opening, the sound of Song Lan's robes whipping in the wind outside. The door closes.

    Wangji knows that look. He gets up, hand on Bichen, and follows.

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    The night between defeating Xue Yang and burying A-Qing is a long one, and full of ghosts.

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  5. Public Bookmark 47

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    Armand had felt it instantly — the spike of panic, followed by the creeping weight of nihilistic dread. He feels it everywhere nowadays. The 1980s are a decade of scared young things, terrified the comfort they seek will kill them, of fear and dread and paranoia. It reminds him of Venice, and the crawling rot of plague, the suspicious glances between neighbours as they'd snapped their shutters closed.

    He feels it now in Daniel.

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