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    If Nicky had his way, he’d storm out of the al-Kaysanis’ home—but then, if Nicky had his way, he wouldn’t even be here in the first place.

    Remembering the conversation he had with his mother two months ago does nothing to abate Nicky’s anger, so he focuses on cutting his tuna into perfectly even bites.

    Joe’s staring at him like he’s insane, which only heightens his irritation.

    Joe’s father stands and clears his throat, glass raised. “To legacies,” he says. “To dynasties. To new family.” Joe’s father looks at Nicky and smiles. He and Joe have the same dimples, Nicky notices. “And to the marriage of our two sons.”

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    14 Nov 2024

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    "So, are you guys dating?" Nile asks during their lunch break. They are at the Indian buffet, and Nicky is telling Nile about a thrift store he and Joe went to that he thinks she would like. It takes a him a minute to parse the question. "Well, you keep mentioning him and smiling," she adds when he doesn't say anything. "And you haven't been seeing anyone for a while, so I just wondered if that was why."

    "No, not at all," Nicky says. "We're friends, and he lives nearby, that's all."

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    25 Sep 2024

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    "Haven't you ever considered that the problem with all of your past relationships was that they were with women?"

    And just like that, Nicky's turbulent mind goes entirely, perfectly blank. 

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    25 Sep 2024

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    “And it didn’t bother you that the guard thought you were -- that we were -- ?” Nicolò asks, for what is definitely the fourth time, as they bed down, hopefully hidden from view by the reeds and trees of the Nile delta.

    Yusuf sighs, rolling onto his back. “Do I mind that he thought I would be foolish enough to abandon all reason and take up with one of the men who helped sack Al-Quds? Yes, a little. Not enough to stop from using it as a perfectly serviceable escape route.”

    “No,” Nicolò says, “I mean, that you would prefer the company of other men at all.”

    Yusuf blinks, bemused. He hadn’t even thought of that. “As a rule, I try not to be insulted by accusations that are true,” he says drily.

    OR: Five times they were faking it and two times it was real.

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    18 Aug 2024

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    Hob has been around death. Living in London throughout multiple plague outbreaks and fires, as well as making a living soldiering and dabbling in banditry, will do that to you. What he doesn't know is that Death has been around Hob as well. He has no idea that when his Stranger left him that night in 1389 after their first meeting, the woman who came up to him, laid a hand on his shoulder and said, “Good luck, friend,” was Death incarnate.

    Hob doesn’t know that he is one of few things in this world that has been Touched by Death and lived. Had he known this, he might not have been as confused as he is when his body slams into the floor of a dim, candle-lit cellar and he finds himself surrounded by hooded figures and a gold circle on the floor. That is all he manages to perceive before everything goes blurry and consciousness slips away from him again.

    Here in the Darkness.

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    Roderick Burgess' spell does not summon Death, but someone who has been touched by Death. Hob Gadling ends up in his cellar instead of Dream.

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