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Akasuna no Sasori wakes up in a dingy cell across from a woman who either may be the key to their escape, or the shovel that digs his early grave.
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21 Oct 2025
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“With morning spiders good fortune will come. With evening spiders, thieves will come.” - Old Japanese proverb
When the daughter of a prestigious noble family is spirited away on her watch, Haruno Sakura packs her medical bag, a map, and a bottle of sake for a hike into the mountains of central Japan to track her down. Massive guilt, minimal qualifications, and morbid curiosity conspire to send her hurtling over the thin line separating her familiar reality and the Hidden World—where gods, ghosts, and the demons of old folklore carry on alongside and invisible to modern-day humanity. Her only ally is one such demon, the fiendish yokai Jorōgumo, on his own mission to exact revenge on the sorceress who imprisoned him for all eternity, until Sakura unwittingly sets him free.
They strike an uneasy alliance that leads them across the country and in between their respective worlds on a journey that will challenge the divide between reality and fantasy, fate and circumstance, and death and love.
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21 Oct 2025
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“Open anything you want. Go anywhere you wish. But I absolutely forbid you to enter that little room, and if you open it so much as a crack, nothing will protect you from my wrath.” - Charles Perrault, Bluebeard, 1697
Sakura is dispatched to the sunset edge of the world to investigate the origins of a mysterious pestilence decimating the civilian population there. To combat the villagers’ suspicion of an outsider meddling in their lives, she enlists the help of an enticing traveler who may hold the key to something much more ruinous than the blight upon this land.
Some doors, once opened, can never be closed.
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21 Oct 2025
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Sakura fought tooth and nail for everything she got, and that included her apprenticeship with Akasuna no Sasori, the most brilliant ninja in the world where poisons are concerned. He's reputed to be eccentric and to have little patience for fools, but he's probably not going to actually hurt her in any way.
Probably.
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20 Oct 2025
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You turn the little chip over in your hand, warm from sitting close to the battery for who knows how long it’s been there. How long has it been there? Is this what gives Caleb a sense of security? Watching you? Knowing where you are?
You watch its red eye as you tuck yourself into bed, and imagine it a heartbeat. A little sun that flickers with each breath; a red giant whose warmth may have faded, but whose light refuses to go out.
As always, you dream of your brother.
While you’re busy navigating work obligations, crippling medical debt, and a heart that keeps you stuck in perpetual poverty, Caleb seems stubbornly set on taking care of you in his own way.
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03 Oct 2025