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    For as long as Aloy can remember, the mission, whatever it may be, has always been the most important thing. Problems to solve, people to help, a world to save—there’s never been room for anything, anyone else.

    Because letting people in, letting people know her, really know her, letting them see all her flaws and weaknesses is a risk beyond anything she’s ever faced. It’s easy enough to push people away and maintain a comfortable—a safe—distance.

    Until Kotallo. Until suddenly she wants things she’s never allowed herself to want. Until suddenly she has them.

    But after a lifetime of walls and running, learning to be vulnerable, to trust someone with all the fragile, broken pieces of herself? That takes time.

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    When hunter-killer machines begin attacking the Memorial Grove, Aloy returns there to lend her aid. She arrives on the night of the blaze moon, a Tenakth ceremony that sweeps her up in it before she realizes it's happening. Suddenly suitors are seeking her out around every corner until she and Kotallo stumble into an...unorthodox solution.

    That might cause more problems than it solves.

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    02 Jan 2024

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    Simon huffed. “So, if you're not gonna kill me, then… why are you here?”

    A long pause as Raphael took in Simon's sorry state, disheveled clothes and bloodless pallor. Simon squirmed under his ex-leader's scrutiny.

    Finally, Raphael said, “I hate you.”

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    06 Dec 2023

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    Simon mulled it over before answering with ‘I’ll check with dad’, which earned him an unexpected call at 3 in the morning. ‘You call Raphael dad?’ Clary shrieked through the phone, adorably sleepy and at the same time ridiculously hysterical.
    “Pssh no!" Simon said after laughing down the line for several seconds. "Lily is my dad.”

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    The story follows Simon's new life with the clan after Camille has been sent to Idris. It includes music, clan shenanigans, reconciliation, love and comfort, a couple of serious conversations, Spanish telenovelas, werewolves, flirting and wooing with office supplies, protective Simon, protective Raphael, protective clan - everyone is quite protective, really - and a growing pile of original characters who don't appear all that often but are mentioned frequently because it's a huge clan and I can't keep using the same three people for everything, alright?

    This is a slice of life rom-com sprinkled with insecurity issues and personal growth. A fluffy, feel-good slow-burn with Raphael being his usual gloriously irritating self and Simon being denser than a brick wall. So what if he doesn't realize they have been sort of dating for a while? It happens!

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    28 Nov 2023

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    “I never considered it waiting around,” Miles says. “I never expected it to become anything more. You were giving me all that you were capable of, and—maybe it wasn’t exactly in the form I hoped for, but it was more than enough.”

    “Miles,” says Phoenix, giddy. “That’s fucked up.”

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    25 Nov 2023