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  1. Public Bookmark 22

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    "I will stay."
    Murtagh's promise to Nasuada is not in The Ancient Language. It isn't even a proper oath. But it binds him as firmly as any oath he's ever sworn. A brutalised rider of a brutalised dragon, in a brutalised nation, all of them trying to work out how to exist in a world after Galbatorix. Why does this promise so bind Murtagh?
    You know why.

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    This is a story about redemption, forgiveness, and restoration. It is a story of hope.

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    Paolini left the end of the book Murtagh as a classical romance set up. It would be a crime not to use it.

    Picks up a matter of days after the end of canon as it stands in late 2025. Intended almost as the next book in the series. Word count will be 145K when fully posted.

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    28 May 2026

  2. Rec 12

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    “With all the posturing you’re doing over there, a guy could get the wrong idea.”

    “I’m not posturing,” Guy says huffily. “I just think you could do better.”

    “No, no, you are,” Jasper says, frankly delighted at the prospect. “Look at you, puffing out your chest and everything. Are you gonna start preaching the virtues of your gene pool next? Wanna do Punnett squares for the color of our baby’s eyes?”

    In which Guy tries to solve his abandonment issues with marriage, Jasper weighs the pros and cons of falling in love with a one-night stand, and everyone takes everything way too fast. But at least they're keeping their heads about it... right?

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    06 Jan 2026

  3. Rec 45

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    Guy Anatole has a late-night coffee problem.

    With a mere four days to go before he starts working at a prestigious law firm, Guy knows he needs to kick the caffeine habit to have a snowball’s chance in hell of getting to the office for 9am. But when one last trip to his favourite coffee shop results in Guy crossing paths with a mysterious stranger, he finds himself returning again and again in the hopes of meeting him one more time.

    Or: Jasper travels to New York to investigate the human telepath the Talamasca have their eyes on recruiting to their corrupt ranks. One well-placed thought about how poorly Guy dresses for someone so pretty is all the bait he needs to hook the boy on a different path.

    This is a prequel to my canon Gasper-centric rewrite Come on Barbie Let's go Party, that sets up the question: what if Jasper got hold of Guy before the Talamasca?

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    05 Jan 2026

  4. Rec 91

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    Guy moves into a new apartment and, by a stroke of luck, meets his really old really handsome neighbor. With every encounter, the attraction grows until Guy becomes nearly obsessed, eventually realizing that his feelings for Jasper go far beyond mere sexual desire.

    Guy decides to seduce his sixty-eight-year-old neighbor by constantly finding things in his apartment for him to fix. Jasper doesn’t seem to mind one bit.

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    03 Jan 2026

  5. Rec *

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    Jasper’s hand lays over his heart, and his whole body jolts without moving. Those terrifying eyes stare at him, and he stares back even as the pulse pound of his heart roars, thumpthump thumpthump, a pace that Jasper can surely feel under his hand. No heat seeps through the touch but the press of it roots him even as it unmoors him. Jasper has moved closer somehow, the negligible height difference between them means that they’re now eye to eye. He wants to blink; he wants to look away; he wants to flinch.

    I can see why they sent you.

    —--

    Guy tries to elevate himself to player from pawn.

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    02 Jan 2026