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Thread: Masquerade [Kuskovo Estate]
Post: RE: Masquerade [Kuskovo Estate]
| Darkness that was going to chase Kristian in his sleep. Darkness that would swallow him whole. The music only drilled it in, touched someplace deeper than words reached alone. Raffe listened without e... |
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Greater Moscow and the Golden Ring
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03-27-2024, 03:43 PM |
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Thread: Masquerade [Kuskovo Estate]
Post: RE: Masquerade [Kuskovo Estate]
| Raffe blinked when Kristian’s hand reached out. He’d worked plenty of places where you had to keep an eye out for that sort of thing, but it took him by surprise in the middle of a ballroom. He didn’t... |
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Raffe |
Greater Moscow and the Golden Ring
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03-22-2024, 08:11 PM |
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Thread: Masquerade [Kuskovo Estate]
Post: RE: Masquerade [Kuskovo Estate]
| “Sure. Who doesn’t like beautiful things?” he said. Though a burlesque club in the red light district was about as far away as you could get from high brow art of the like he presumed Kristian had sho... |
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Raffe |
Greater Moscow and the Golden Ring
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02-25-2024, 09:52 PM |
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Thread: Masquerade [Kuskovo Estate]
Post: RE: Masquerade [Kuskovo Estate]
| Noémi was nervous. The signs were subtle, she was graceful as a swan, and as demure as though she belonged amongst these people. But she was distracted too. Raffe only offered his arm and stayed silen... |
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Raffe |
Greater Moscow and the Golden Ring
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02-15-2024, 06:22 PM |
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Thread: Groundwork
Post: RE: Groundwork
| He had trouble concentrating these days. His thoughts weren’t busy, and it wasn't just distraction vying his attention elsewhere. It was like a fog through which Raffe had forgotten what he was even s... |
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Raffe |
Greater Moscow and the Golden Ring
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01-11-2024, 02:39 PM |
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Thread: Kintsugi
Post: RE: Kintsugi
| After the girls were settled he crashed out in his own bed again. The sleep still seemed deep and greedy, totally dreamless, and when consciousness blurred back in he lay unmoving. Time trickled by un... |
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Raffe |
Greater Moscow and the Golden Ring
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09-02-2023, 09:14 PM |
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Thread: Kintsugi
Post: RE: Kintsugi
| Raffe was content with the distraction. The space was small enough that he’d had to hunch to squeeze in, but once sat down it didn’t matter much. Morgan was a talker and chatted away with carefree apl... |
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Raffe |
Greater Moscow and the Golden Ring
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09-01-2023, 06:47 PM |
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Thread: Kintsugi
Post: RE: Kintsugi
| The morning passed and Raffe floated through it like a man going through the motions. He was quiet and insular, poking around his own thoughts like a tongue discovering the surprise of a missing tooth... |
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Raffe |
Greater Moscow and the Golden Ring
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08-03-2023, 12:37 PM |
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Thread: Kintsugi
Post: RE: Kintsugi
| Raffe leaned in the doorway to listen. He met Nox’s look but said nothing, about promises or otherwise. He understood, then, where these kids had come from, and why Nox had assumed responsibility for ... |
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Raffe |
Greater Moscow and the Golden Ring
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07-30-2023, 07:45 PM |
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Thread: Kintsugi
Post: RE: Kintsugi
| Raffe slept almost immediately, and deeply, like his body was still catching up with the damage. Commotion woke him groggy, and he shifted to realise he was alone, for a moment confused as to where he... |
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Raffe |
Greater Moscow and the Golden Ring
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07-29-2023, 09:57 PM |
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Thread: Kintsugi
Post: RE: Kintsugi
| “Don’t worry, they’re fine,” he said of the plants, stifling a yawn as he yanked off what he could be bothered of his clothes. The thanks washed over him but he didn’t respond. It wasn’t why he would ... |
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Raffe |
Greater Moscow and the Golden Ring
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07-27-2023, 09:29 PM |
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Thread: Kintsugi
Post: RE: Kintsugi
| The last explanation he’d expected was two girls curled like kittens in Nox’s bed. He didn't ask why, didn’t need to; just accepted it as easily as that as Nox softly closed the door.
“Okay,” was a... |
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Raffe |
Greater Moscow and the Golden Ring
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07-16-2023, 05:38 PM |
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Thread: Kintsugi
Post: RE: Kintsugi
| Nox’s voice cracked as he stood. A child’s toy dangled from his grip. For a moment Raffe only blinked, dazed. The words soaked in slowly. Maybe he was still stoned. Nox looked haggard, like he hadn’t ... |
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Raffe |
Greater Moscow and the Golden Ring
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07-15-2023, 08:07 PM |
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Thread: Kintsugi
Post: RE: Kintsugi
| [[continued from Lyaeus (https://thefirstage.org/forums/thread-1424.html)]]
His feet led him to the church, not to home. Zeke was entertaining a gaggle of children in the crumbling, weed-sprouted c... |
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Raffe |
Greater Moscow and the Golden Ring
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07-15-2023, 09:07 AM |
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Thread: Lyaeus (closed)
Post: RE: Lyaeus (closed)
| Raffe stared out the window as Ephraim spoke. The city spread out below; the same office view as only a week before, but it felt like a lifetime had passed since he’d signed his life over and begged P... |
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Raffe |
Greater Moscow and the Golden Ring
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07-13-2023, 02:24 PM |
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Thread: Lyaeus (closed)
Post: RE: Lyaeus (closed)
| Days passed uneventfully. He caught snatches of excited conversation from time to time, but whatever caused the furore wasn’t centred around his own tests. Those continued on schedule, also uneventful... |
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Raffe |
Greater Moscow and the Golden Ring
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07-09-2023, 02:32 PM |
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Thread: Lyaeus (closed)
Post: RE: Lyaeus (closed)
| If Visha turned up that night Raffe was unaware. She might have sat at the end of his bed and watched him all night for all he knew; he slept hard and exhausted.
DAY 3
He felt strange the next d... |
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Greater Moscow and the Golden Ring
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07-02-2023, 06:16 PM |
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Thread: Coming to a Resolution
Post: RE: Coming to a Resolution
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Asha’man Araya
After the ceremony concluded, Araya disappeared into the crowds.
He didn’t know the King of Arad Doman’s ... |
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Raffe |
Past Lives
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02-17-2023, 02:44 PM |
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Thread: A Winter Night's Dream
Post: RE: A Winter Night's Dream
| It wasn't quite the answer he would have hoped for, to know that the woman had never appeared to pay for her actions, and though there was no inflection in Trista's voice, he was inclined to feel the ... |
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Past Lives
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02-05-2023, 10:48 PM |
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Thread: A Winter Night's Dream
Post: RE: A Winter Night's Dream
| One of the effects of his free emotions was that he tended to take others literally and at face value, and sometimes he even chose to rather than struggle with the discrepancies between what people sa... |
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Past Lives
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02-05-2023, 10:33 PM |
