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  1. Rec 56

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    They aren’t delivering anything special – five large barrels of pickles, several bolts of cloth, enough salt to season a couple thousand meals – and their ship is barely large enough to pass council regulations. It doesn’t matter. It’s hers, and she's on it. She’s on the open sea with her closest friends, and a ship, and a storage bunker full of merchandise.

    Impulse practically has to drag her below deck so Skizz can take over watch. She curls up on her bunk, lulled to sleep by the rocking of the waves, and dreams of sailing.

    ~•~

    When Gem sets out on her first voyage to the Isles - as a captain, no less! - she has full faith that with her experienced crew beside her, nothing could possibly go wrong. That is, until a sudden storm sweeps them across the sea, and they encounter something (...someone?) that they thought was confined to myth...

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  2. Rec 10

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    Of asking, once, are you happy? Remembers Pearl’s stillness — an awful stagnation for someone who captures sunlight and spins it into cathedrals, who accepts silence and makes it laughter. And the defeat in her sigh, her shrug, are we supposed to be? I don’t want to. Not for him. Not for any of them.

    You’ll work it out, Gem said then. When you’re both ready. No matter how long it takes to get there.

    “Don’t worry.” She offers her hand to Grian. “I don’t break my promises.”
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    Or, Gem’s WL arc was a love letter to Pearl, telling her its okay to not let go

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  3. Rec 10

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    Gem shuffled over to the electronic till a couple paces to her left. "Right." She hovered a finger over the screen. "What's your order."

    "I'm gonna get a BLT burger—"

    Gem relaxed, the tension leaving her shoulders. It was a normal burger this time; thank god.

    "—with some sliiiiight modifications," Pearl added.

    Oh no. And just like that, Gem's defences snapped back into place.

    "It's not that many," Pearl said in a tone that was probably meant to sound reassuring, but only made Gem more suspicious, "just a few subtractions, and one very important addition."

    Gem had a sneaking suspicion of what that "very important addition" was going to be.

    Without waiting for Gem's go-ahead, Pearl continued rattling off her order: "So for the BLT burger, I want the meat, tomato, and lettuce taken off of it, but I still want the sauce. In fact, can you add extra ketchup to it too?"

    Then she said what Gem had been dreading hearing: "And can I get extra pickles on that? But I don't have a specified amount of pickles I want . . . Oh, I know! How about you put my burger together at the 'make your own burger' counter, and you keep adding pickles until I tell you to stop?"

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  4. Rec 45

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    1 Year Post-Oakhurst Treaty

    “Hey, guys, can you- do you mind giving me a little space?” Drift’s throat was tight. “Sorry, I just-”

    “So, I’ve officially been mourning you longer than I’ve known you- by a lot, actually, but I wasn’t… ready to come back here when it was exactly that time.” Drift sniffled, swiped away the first few tears that had beaded up in her eyes. “I’m… ready now. I have a lot to tell you, actually, ‘cause you’re my best friend, and… there’s a lot I think you’d want to know."

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    A series of vignettes set after the end.

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    18 Dec 2025

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    The room is too bright.

    It’s quaint, in a nauseating sort of way. Polished floors glint from the gleaming honeycomb chandeliers overhead, make him squint. A few vases sprinkled here and there, filling the room with a sickeningly sweet scent – even a waffle-cone headrest framing the silken sheets of a neatly-tucked bed. Outside, the golden sun gleams, the gentle rays of light spilling past curtains that waver in the afternoon breeze.

    It's meant to be beautiful. Luxurious. Welcoming.

    With one sweep of his cane, Shadow Milk tears it apart.

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