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Francis Crozier died on a winter day somewhere in the Arctic, and woke up again in his berth on the Terror one week before leaving England. He has a second chance to get things right... but there are some differences with the people he remembers from his first time around.
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24 Nov 2024
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September hangs golden over the steppe. The last rays of sun are a brittle haze shimmering over the rippling grasses, gauzy, ethereal.
It’s not the landscape you remember from the days of the sand pest. It’s been four years since then, almost to the day. It's been with you constantly, but the thoughts loom tall now, more difficult to push aside than usual. It makes sense, you think. You are, after all, on a train going back to ground zero, to the wretched place where it happened.
You're still not sure what's possessed you to make this trip. This town makes you do irrational things, Bachelor Dankovsky. But as time passes, you would like to see what it’s made of itself in the wake of the sand pest. And maybe that will put some of your own lingering demons to rest, as well.
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29 Dec 2023
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He has to leave soon, they both do, but Daniil feels rooted in place. Concerns about punctuality and reputation seem so inconsequential in the face of Andrey’s hands at his collar, fixing his ascot in place with an unexpected amount of care.
There’s a dinner on the wealthy side of town. Daniil and Andrey try their best to behave themselves.
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- Part 2 of capital triptych
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27 Dec 2023
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To come back, they must become one with the steppe.
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14 Dec 2023
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A crueler, more self-preserving part of Artemy told him to just leave the Bachelor in the grass where he lay, but the part of him that took in his father’s children and trudged through infected districts to distribute immunity boosters every day was louder.
It always was.“Why don’t you stay with me for a few hours? The bull’s blood can wait at least that long.”
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01 Oct 2023