Papaja



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    When Phainon leaves to die and no one lets him go alone

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    09 Jun 2026

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    Phainon’s trip to retrieve a certain ring takes a dire turn when he’s kidnapped before he can even begin his search. With the villagers’ lives hanging in the balance, escape is too great a risk—so he chooses to bide his time, counting the days until his three-day break ends and someone inevitably comes looking.

    Elsewhere, Aglaea and Mydei are knee-deep in investigating the source of a dangerous new drug spreading through Okhema. The timing couldn’t be worse—Phainon’s unexplained absence fuels persistent whispers that he’s somehow tied to the drug’s sudden rise in popularity.
    They’re just baseless rumors… aren’t they?

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    09 Jun 2026

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    It was absolutely unremarkable. Some girl talking to herself as she explored a building that she was clearly bored of. Nothing special.

    Jax… knew that voice, though. It made all of the difference. He wanted her to say something else-- he needed her to say something else. He could hear his heartbeat in his ears. In the back of his mind, he could hear a jester-looking girl laughing at something stupid he said.

    (Or: After escaping the circus, Jax finds himself back in the unchanged real world. Unfortunately, the relationships he'd made-- and didn't make-- in the Circus continued to nag at him.)

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    24 May 2026

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    The poems say they fought for ten days and ten nights. That they were close. That they were unable to part.

    Only Phainon knew the truth. In the early days, distance and frustration had marked their friendship, a pattern broken only in moments of life and death or in the perilous theatre of battle. Having veiled his mind and heart, Mydei did not make it easy for others to know him.

    But the gods are merciful, and the hero is far more persistent.

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    08 Apr 2026

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    Phainon had never known what he wanted—had never wanted anything as much as he did—until he met Mydeimos, the Crown Prince of Kremnos.

    He was the perfect vessel that held other people's desires, that protected their hopes and dreams until the promised day, when a miracle was needed. But he had never harboured a wish that was truly his, that came from his heart and his alone.

    Until he met Mydei, warrior of Okhema. And he at last understood what it meant to nurture a flame from the smallest of embers, to possess something worth fighting and dying for, to harbour a devotion worth burning the world for.

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    22 Mar 2026