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    He’d begun talking to her. Sometimes he swore she understood, giving well-timed huffs and nods as if there was sentience behind those chestnut eyes. Perhaps there was. There must have been, considering she was down here. She had a soul that remained after death.

    Eurylochus told her of his wife, his friends, his life. The one who had tried to stop him from killing her, he told her, was Odysseus, his brother in law—and nearly by blood, too, for all the time they’d spent together as children. He told her of kind Polites and his untimely death, how he had been the adhesive holding the crew together.

    “I think that was where it started going wrong,” he said. His voice was an echo, and was not made up of words so much as thoughts and ideas now that he had no body to mould his sounds into more distinct shapes. “You would have loved him.” Darling laid her head across his lap, her ears slapping gently against his forearm. Eurylochus gave them a good scratch. “I did,” he said. “Everyone loved him.”

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    Or: Eurylochus is dead. So is the cow he intended to eat.

    They are each other's afterlife.

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    23 Jul 2026

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    Penelope hates all the suitors. They are all so different from the kind and gentle husband she loves and from the sweet son she had raised. She hates the brutal and violent ones like Eurymachus, and the false and sycophantic ones like Amphinomus, because, in the end, they all represente the same thing: her love had not returned to her.

    She held them all in equal disdain, until Antinous outshone them all.

    He became her most persistent suitor, showering her with compliments and lingering longer than he should near the royal family.

    But was it really her that the man wanted?

    Or, the one where Penelope thinks Antinous is trying to win her over, when he’s just trying to make his future mother-in-law like him.

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    19 Jul 2026

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    With a final wave, Ganyu turns to head back towards Yuehai Pavillion. Just as she begins to ascend the stone steps into the building, however, she hears the distinct sound of a loud splash. She turns around, perplexed, to see Aether standing in one of Yujing Terrace's ornamental ponds.

    "Aether?" Ganyu calls, bewildered. "What are you—"

    Aether turns around at the sound of her voice.

    He is holding a fish in both hands.

    Ganyu blinks once, and then twice, but the bizarre sight does not go away. Aether just blinks back at her with an equally puzzled expression.

    Ganyu blinks a few more times.

    "Aether," she says slowly. "Are you… catching fish with your bare hands?"

    Aether does video game things while other characters watch with growing bewilderment.

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    01 Feb 2026

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    01 Feb 2026

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    After the world is saved, Mike Wheeler is left with the quiet.

    Hawkins moves on, the party heals, and Mike learns what it means to miss someone who saved everything, but left him behind in the process.

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    03 Jan 2026