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  1. Public Bookmark 19

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    “… I’d say good morning,” Dankovsky said at length, a little hoarsely, “but I’m afraid I’ve lost track of the time. Good … something, Haruspex.”

    “Afternoon. You look—” Artemy began, and broke off.

    “Yes? What ghoulish thing do I resemble today?” Daniil blew out some smoke, staring pensively ahead. “A striga, perhaps.”

    “—better,” Artemy finished. “Less like you’d gone already, and are only haunting me.”

    That shut Daniil’s mouth.

    [Or: a rendezvous with danger, one very cold winter.]

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    20 Oct 2025

  2. Public Bookmark 1

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    Daniil tries to apologize to Artemy, but doesn't want to.

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    14 Oct 2025

  3. Public Bookmark 12

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    Daniil watches the man yawn – a great big yawn, tightening every muscle in his body into a stretch, and then relaxing again, flopping back down into the sheets and resettling his tongue in his mouth.
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    His hand emerges from where they had been tucked against his ribs, seeking and searching to find-
    Artemy frowns when he doesn't find the small form of Daniil beside him.
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    Daniil wakes up before Artemy.

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    01 Oct 2025

  4. Public Bookmark 58

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    The outbreak is over and winter has passed, but Town-on-Gorkhon's healers face a new challenge: Daniil has come down with a mysterious wasting illness with no name, and he will surely die when the twyre blooms again in September--if his spirit doesn't break sooner. A smaller crisis than the plague, but no less personal. Their knowledge and resolve will be stretched to their limits.

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    23 Aug 2025

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    “He wounds, Cub. You are aware of that.”

    “Yes. But he also heals. What we saw of him back then was also a reflection of us. He became what he needed to be in order to do his duties. We were hostile to one another, Stakh. Imagine how it was for us and how it was for an outsider… how it still is for an outsider.” Artemy looked down. It’s been months since the plague ended and still others treated Dankovsky like a stranger. He treated himself as a stranger. Calling him any other thing would have felt disingenuous... but it still felt wrong.

    “Of course. Humans need to adapt to their surroundings to live and survive. But snakes do not adapt when their skins shed, nor do they become anew. They become more of what they already are.” Rubin spoke slowly, choosing his words with either care or caution while looking at Daniil’s signature coat on the rack.

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    Ficbook Russian Translation (WIP)/ Русский Перевод

    Ao3 Russian Translation/ Русский Перевод

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