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    This is no dumb animal, Paul realizes with a sudden chill.

    'Who are you, little mouse,' the susurrations of the waiting worm seem to say. 'You are no child of my desert. What manner of creature are you that enters my domain?'

    'I am no one, Great Maker,' his trembling fingers reply as they sink into the dusty grains beneath them. They grasp at the rough texture in desperation, in supplication before this desert god. 'I am lost. My family is gone, my people are scattered, and I, with them. Where do I go from here?'

     

    tldr; I prompted myself: 'ok cool cool but like, what if Paul could speak to sandworms?'

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    10 Mar 2024

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    “Wh-what’s this?” Stede managed in a strangled croak.
    Ed’s eyes creased around the edges. Smiling. One could always tell by them, even if his beard and moustache and everything else hid his mouth. “I know you’re a bit new to the whole… seaman thing,” he said with that rumble of amusement in his voice, “but I thought even you’d recognise a come on when you saw one.”

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    29 Mar 2022

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    “Give me a reason not to carve your heart out,” Ed whispers.

    And Stede can’t think of one.

    He can think of plenty of reasons he doesn’t want his heart carved out, but how could he expect any of them to matter to Ed?

    “Stede.” Ed’s voice breaks, dragging Stede’s eyes back up from where they’ve been staring at the floor in shame. “Please.”

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    28 Mar 2022

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    "Do you like purple?" It was an inane question, but it soothed some of Stede’s own nerves. He hated these sort of soirees – filled with people ready to wriggle a verbal knife between your ribs while smiling at you – but it seemed there was very little he wouldn’t do to impress Blackbeard. Or rather, to put it another way, there was very little he wouldn’t do to try to make his new friend happy. And based on the smile before him, Ed was well on his way to being very happy.

    Stede helps Blackbeard style his beard before the party.

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    28 Mar 2022

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    I have lived my whole life with a wrecked heart. Fr. Aziraphale Fell’s present mirrors his past, as long ago roommate, classmate, and former friend Anthony Crowley reappears in his life in an unexpected and disarming way, challenging Aziraphale’s choices, and bringing him back to the breaking point, when he made a decision he couldn’t take back. It isn’t temptation, it’s revelation.

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    18 Mar 2022