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    She went first to the hives of Silence and requested from them their beeswax. Then she found where the clay men had hidden their newfound fire, and took from their hearth the smallest burning scrap, which she used to light a wick. As the wax melted down it, its layers dripped and hardened upon themselves, and when it lengthened into a shape she could carry in her arms, she the Night bent her head and kissed life into it. This became the infant she called Charon, half-melted and smoking Promethean fire with every breath.

    At the end of this recounting, she tilted her head and asked politely, Is this not how you have children?

    Uh, no, said Persephone.

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    22 Feb 2021

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    Touko has lived with many strange people, and Natsume Takashi is the strangest of them all.

    (or: fourteen-year-old Touko finds a unexpected home with a mysterious relative)

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    08 Sep 2020

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    [image: A boy, maybe fourteen, stands on the porch of the Fujiwara household in a brand new school uniform. Slung over one shoulder is an old but well-loved leather messenger bag. In his hand is a brightly wrapped bento. The boy, although smiling, looks nervous.]

    (or: Natsume learns to use a cell phone, text people back, call people first, and take pictures of his friends)

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    06 Sep 2020

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    The second time Lan Zhan said Wei Ying, come back, Wei Wuxian did.

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    07 Aug 2020

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    She isn't his mother; she has no interest in that. But in one small way -- this one single way -- he lets her feel less alone.

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    19 Jul 2020