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    “Are you lost?” Aglaea bends down so that she and Stella are eye to eye. She hesitates, then braces herself before asking, “Where are your parents?”

    Aglaea watches as her eyes dim and her smile fades. Her chest feels heavy as little Stella sniffles, and suddenly she knows the answer. She almost doesn't want to believe it; Phainon and Mydeimos were two of the strongest people she knew.

    However, the evidence speaks for itself. Aglaea’s threads take in Stella’s state, and she concludes that as long as Phainon and Mydei were able, they would never leave their daughter in this terrible state.

    “Daddy and Papa are gone,” she whispers miserably, and Aglaea feels dizzy actually hearing it confirmed. “And… and they said that if they were, I should go look for Auntie Aglaea in Okhema because she’d take care of me.”

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    or: phainon and mydei never come back from what was supposed to be a simple extermination mission. seven years later, aglaea finds their daughter on her doorstep.

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    18 Jun 2026

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    Mydei would like everyone to know that he can't be the one to awaken Phainon from his cursed sleep with True Love's Kiss, because he is not the Deliverer's one True Love.

    The entirety of Amphoreus would like to argue otherwise.

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    18 Jun 2026

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    “Speaking of you two, how did you even start dating?” Cipher asked, peering at him curiously, “I can't imagine how the little nerd asked you out on a date. Enlighten us.”

    “I was the one who asked him out, actually,” Mydei answered. Phainon was too dense to make the first move, after all.

    All three pairs of eyes at the table stared at him. Clearly, they seemed to have thought the opposite.

    Mydei's boyfriend is a total nerd and a beast in bed. Who said one can't be both?

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    18 Jun 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 27

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    Prince Mydeimos of Castrumn Kremnos and Khaslana of Aedes Elysiae.

    Two figures that classicists debated over for centuries.

    Partners in crime. Heroes in the Elysian war. Bound by loyalty…

    …or something that history refused to name.

    Just like Patroclus and Achillies.

    Just like Alexander and Hephaestion.

    And just like Gilgamesh and Enkidu.

    They learned about the prince and his knight in Professor Anaxagoras’ “Classic Amphorean History and its Heroes” class. Mydei loved the class because it taught him more about his Kremnoan heritage, and Phainon loved the class because it had Mydei.
    He would do anything for Mydei. Even if it was helping him translate a strange, ancient book written entirely in the dead language.
    Even if it was accidentally resurrecting the two heroes for a night.

    He had known he loved Mydei long before the night they accidentally brought Mydeimos and Khaslana back to life momentarily.

    What he had not known was how much the past would reflect the present, how dangerous it was to see yourself in a story that ended tragically, or how attractive his roommate would look in ancient Kremnoan garments (or rather, the lack-thereof.)

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    18 Jun 2026

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    Mydei doesn't think much of it when his class is one minute late.

    But as the clock on his wall ticks away, signalling that now—after losing himself in deep thought over how to handle today's lesson—it's currently ten past the hour, he finally starts getting suspicious. It's normal for classes to overrun on occasion, gods, even he's even done it before. However, it's an entirely different thing when it's this much time that's gone by without any prior notice. Mydei pushes his glasses back up onto the bridge of his nose, as they've gradually slid down while he was staring at the worksheets on his desk.

    He sighs, glancing at the clock once again. Two more minutes, he promises himself, and then he'll go figure out where the hells his class has disappeared off to.

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