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Chapter 30: I Just Want to Feel Alive
Face Up, Lights Previous | Chapter Listing | Next When Ezio woke up, he was still lying partially in Drake’s lap, using his leg as a pillow. Ezio blinked up at him, a bit confused, but Drake had apparently just gone on writing whatever it was he was working on this time. Here and there, Ezio would read the books Drake published, and he tried to be covert about it. It seemed like something that might be embarrassing for him, because Drake was strange that way, but Ezio found it kind of adorable. He’d asked Cassandra, of course, why she wanted to keep him, but then when he thought to…
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Chapter 29: Let the Rain Fall
Come Clean, Hilary Duff Previous | Chapter Listing | Next They’d agreed to meet up around noon, so there wasn’t a lot of rushing to do, but for some reason, Ezio was already awake and rummaging through his dresser. Mayor was laying on top of the wood, occasionally reaching a paw into the drawer because obviously, Ezio was playing with the clothes in the drawers specifically so that Mayor could play with them. Of course Ezio did. What other reason could he possibly have? Today, of course, was Saturday, and he had a not-date at a coffee shop. It was not a date. So there was no sense in being…
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Chapter 28: And You Had Everything to Lose
This Is Your Life, Switchfoot Previous | Chapter Listing | Next Strangely, Morgyn was already awake, when the sunlight spilled in Ezio’s bedroom windows. The blond had spent the entire time watching the sun rise, the sky slowly change colours, the city lights dim away, and Morgyn had to admit, Ezio was onto something with liking San Myshuno so much. It was pretty, just in a very different way than Morgyn was accustomed to. It wouldn’t be so bad, living here. Already, Morgyn was getting used to the noise level, and it’d be nice to be so close to Ezio again. It was already decided, in the sage’s mind, that…
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Chapter 27: And I Can’t Go Back
Pure Sunlight, Mr. FijiWiji, Laura Brehm, AgNO3 Previous | Chapter Listing | Next The space was silent, save for the quiet trickling of water to one side of the room. The blond tilted his head side to side, his neck cracking several times, and then stretched out. His eyes were closed, focused instead on listening to the water sounds, and whatever it was that was going on in his head. It’d been thousands of years since the last time someone had managed to guess what it was that was in his head, Kassander didn’t expect anything else this time. Save, perhaps, Sandalio and Hasan, very few people knew him terribly…
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Chapter 26: Good Things Are Made Up of Time
Now Is Forever, Eiffel 65 Previous | Chapter Listing | Next “Somehow, I was expecting this to be easier,” Caleb was saying, pacing around the apartment he shared with Lilith. Across the hall, somewhere, Morgyn was spending time with Ezio, and Caleb wouldn’t ever dream of interrupting something like that. Right now, at any rate, he needed to vent to someone else, and perhaps venting at Morgyn about Morgyn wasn’t a good idea. “We’ve known each other forever, Lilith, I can’t believe this is still so difficult. And I don’t even know what I want!” Lilith, pulling their dishes out of their boxes, washing and drying them, and then putting…
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Chapter 25: My Heart is Untamed
Story of My Life, One Direction Previous | Chapter Listing | Next The campus looked nice. Morgyn decided that the second the blond set eyes on the grounds. The weathered stone and varying vines scattered around brought a strange sense of peace. The sage could almost smell the old books high up on the shelves in the library, tucked where none could reach now. Morgyn had the qualifications, it turned out, to make it into Foxbury’s distinguished degrees for the programmes the blond was interested in. Ezio went to Britechester, however. Perhaps it was stupid, but Morgyn had no intention of attending a university Ezio wasn’t in. It made it…
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Chapter 24: The Seasons of My Life
Landslide, Fleetwood Mac. Previous | Chapter Listing | Next “L’s gotten weirdly attached to some guy that happened to find the gate in Glimmerbrook,” Morgyn said, fiddling with the egg rolls on the table. The blond couldn’t quite figure out how these were supposed to work, but Morgyn was also too proud to ask. Knowing that, across the table with a bowl of sweet and sour pork, Ezio reached over and took one of Morgyn’s egg rolls, just to subtly show the dork how to eat them. Morgyn’s green eyes glanced up at him, and then the blond wordlessly copied him. “His name’s Don or something like that,” Morgyn went…
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Chapter 23: Throw Me Away
Throw Me Away, KoRn Previous | Chapter Listing | Next I have always been dying, Morgyn. That is one of the only constants we’ve ever had in our lives, and I could feel it drawing closer. Don’t be too angry with me. You’d be mourning either way. I want my death to mean something. Please, help me make sure that it isn’t for nothing, either. Find the truth, and set us all free. I love you, and I always will. 6 Months Earlier San Myshuno, 2019 Gosh, this cat was loud. Ezio groaned softly, in that stage between waking and sleeping, and then rolled over and smacked the alarm clock.…
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Chapter 22: The Frost and the Chaos
From the Age of Pirates, Adrian Von Ziegler. The chapter is not named after it. THIS IS THE ENDING. THE REST OF THE STORY EXPLAINS HOW WE GOT TO THIS POINT AND WHAT THIS MEANS. IF YOU DON’T WANT THE ENDING SPOILED FOR YOU, SKIP THIS CHAPTER AND COME BACK TO IT LATER. Previous | Chapter Listing | Next 36 Years LaterMagic Realm, 2020 It was close by. Ezio had become accustomed to what the damned thing felt like, by now, and knew what he was sensing for. The problem was that he couldn’t easily pinpoint where, exactly, it was. Obviously, it was somewhere over here, but he was having…
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Chapter 21: If This All Came Down
Oblivion, Thirty Seconds to Mars Previous | Chapter Listing | Next He was still constantly tired. By now, Ezio had gotten accustomed to being constantly tired. That was his life, being constantly tired. There were still many questions on his mind about that ocean of chaos, and what it had to do with present events, because, he knew the spirits wouldn’t insist on something so intently if there was no reason for it. There was something important about it that he was meant to learn or come to understand. It took a lot for a spirit to influence the material world. They didn’t do it just because. The reasons why continued to be elusive,…