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Sister Rosario thought she knew Pope Innocent rather well, until the impossible happens.
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11 Apr 2026
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Vincent Benítez isn't an angel. But he's not exactly human, either.
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11 Apr 2026
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Vincent is there beside him. The sun catches in his hair, briefly turning jet black into a golden halo. Lawrence has seen this before. It takes him way too long to realize, and when he finally does, it’s already too late.
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It's been two months since Vincent Benítez became Pope Innocent XIV and finally, Thomas Lawrence feels like he can catch a breath. That is, until he starts getting the same nightmare over and over again.
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23 Jul 2025
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It is an open secret in the Vatican that Thomas Cardinal Lawrence is not entirely human... and that he can never leave the borders of Vatican City. An open secret to everybody, that is, except for the unexpected new arrival, Vincent Benítez.
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03 May 2025
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“I know this is difficult. I know you do not like this. But you are starving yourself, Thomas, and God would not see you starved. I would not see you starved.”
Thomas wonders what it says about him that one of those means more than the other— and what it means that this does not bother him as it should, this blasphemous thought, this sacrilegious reprioritization.
“I do not wish to argue with you, my dear Vincent,” Thomas says, voice quiet. “Your concern is kind, but— I am afraid this is only how I am.”
Vincent squeezes his hands.
“You are not your punishments,” Vincent tells him, firm, warm, insistent. “You are not your denial. You are not your sacrifice, Thomas, nor your hunger. You are not your starvation.” His hands shake Thomas’s, a rattle to keep his attention. “You are Thomas. You are human, and you are starving, and you should not be.”
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09 Mar 2025