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    "We're setting you up with a billet situation," Fletcher continued. "It's pretty common for first-year players, especially international guys. Gives you a chance to settle in, learn the city, have someone looking out for you."

    "Okay," Ilya said slowly, not entirely sure what a billet was, but not wanting to admit his ignorance.

     He could guess from the context – he’d heard of rookies being assigned to live with older single players, veterans who could show them the ropes. Maybe that was what Fletcher meant. Connors maybe, he was probably a handful of years older than Ilya. Or perhaps Becker. Ilya just hoped it was someone who–

    "You'll be staying with Nikolai Petrov and his family."

    The words hit Ilya like a punch to the gut. For a moment, he forgot how to breathe.

    "Petrov?" he managed, his voice coming out strangled.
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    The Bears decide that Ilya should be set up with a billet for his first season. The idea of spending a year living with a man that Ilya is sure hates him is completely terrifying. And yet, it ends up being the best thing to ever happen to him.

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    10 Jun 2026

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    "Which means you," Dr. Choi turns to the other woman, "are my two o'clock appointment. Ryu Rumi?"

    "Yes," she says, standing up and extending her hand for a handshake. She has a diplomatic smile on her face, charming and practiced to perfection. Mira can hardly imagine what it's like to be on the receiving end of it.

    Dr. Choi, however, is apparently immune. She puts one hand on her waist and looks up at Rumi with a glare. She holds Rumi's client file up with her other.

    "Rumi-nim, respectfully, this is the worst intake form I've ever seen in my life. "

    Mira holds back a snicker.

    Or what if Rumi was werewolf but also was a college professor, and what if Zoey was a vet, and what if Mira had 5 cats and one had IBS too, and they were in a romantic comedy what then

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    30 Mar 2026

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    “So,” says Rach. “D’you think it really happened, then?”

    “I think that an enterprising person may saw through a gallows' ropes if given the time, and that summer heat and rain together will rot any crop if the tarps are stolen, and that poison kills a man more surely than any stained silk, and that even if such magic existed it has never favored the powerless,” Adelina says, somewhat more bitterly than she means to. “But it is a good story.”

    In which Adelina is caught in the act. This affects a few things.

    Canon-divergence from Inexplicifics’ “Must Brave The Thorns”

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    31 Jan 2026

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    A list of all the books I pulled from when writing Linothorax, plus my opinions on them! Everyone go read Sofi Thanhauser right fucking now

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    31 Jan 2026

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    “Hey, babe. Been looking everywhere for you.”

    The voice was low, honeyed, warm in all the right places. It fell over Rumi in a way the man’s voice hadn’t, settling into her bones and gnawing faintly, already leaving impressions on her marrow.

    And yet another touch, this one lighter, a palm splayed across the small of her back, a second body pressing into hers from behind.

    “Yeah, we thought we lost you for a sec there.” This voice, a little higher, but no less deadly.

    Not one, but two strangers.

    “Can’t you see you’re interrupting something?” the guy snapped at them.

    “Can’t you see,” the first voice mocked, “she’s not yours?”

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    Two women step in when a guy gets pushy with Rumi at a bar. What happens after is meant to be a one-night stand, nothing more.

    But rarely do things turn out exactly the way they're meant to.

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    06 Jan 2026