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  1. Public Bookmark 26

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    “What could you possibly know about Hanahaki?”
    “I’m not playing this game, Kaveh. Answer me: do you have Hanahaki?”
    Kaveh has only heard this bitter bite from Al-Haitham once before. When they fought.
    There isn’t any room for argument.
    “Yes. I do.”

    The best cure for Hanahaki Disease is distance from the object of the illness. Which is easier said than done when you live together.

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    12 Jul 2026

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    Alhaitham has recently come to realize three things:

    1. He is in love with Kaveh.
    2. He would like to kiss Kaveh, hold Kaveh’s hand, go on dates with Kaveh, and become boyfriends with Kaveh.
    3. He has absolutely no idea how to go about doing any of that.

    Having nobody to confide in, he resorts to writing to Sumeru’s most popular advice column, The Wanderer’s Advice, for help. Before long, seemingly everyone in Sumeru City gets swept up in the story of Ardent Admirer and their clueless beloved.

    Everyone except Kaveh, for better or for worse.

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    30 May 2026

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    “I’m in love with you. Isn’t that pathetic?” Kaveh murmurs into his ear. He is laughing—harsh and discordant and bitter.

    “I’m in love with you, and I’m dying,” Kaveh rambles. “You’re killing me, Alhaitham.”

    (Kaveh contracts hanahaki. He and Alhaitham deal with the consequences.)

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    04 May 2026

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    “Oh, right – Alhaitham.” Kaveh claps a hand to his forehead. “Cyno, if you see him at the Akademiya tomorrow, don’t mention this to him, would you? I haven’t told him yet.”

    “Told him?” Cyno asks slowly, a wary glint in his eye. “What exactly haven’t you told him?”

    “That I’m getting married,” Kaveh grimaces. “I wanted to tell him myself – I suppose I do want him at the wedding after all, you know – but I didn’t get a chance yet. You know what it’s like, trying to have a conversation with him.”

     

    It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.
    Kaveh is a single man. That's about it, really.

     

    or: the one in which Kaveh gets married, but not to whom you think.

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    31 Mar 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 5

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    Purple and red stained his palm, a strange mix when he'd been expecting a more natural color. A few of the larger clusters almost looked like flowers, three delicate petals joined together and stained with blood, an odd sight of beauty there in his hand. While under normal circumstances he might have appreciated the sight, he could only feel his stomach sink. This was what he'd always been afraid of, something he couldn't lie to himself or anyone else about, an external, tangible sign of something he'd always known.

    Hanahaki.

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    14 Feb 2026