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and butter-churning hands
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Alvarez just doesn't know how to do things any other way. i enjoy their shouting.
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Ch09 The morning light that crept through the frosted windows of the Lemon Saloon was pale, watery, and entirely devoid of the warmth necessary to thaw the freezing mud of Lanternlight's main avenue. The raucous, chaotic energy of the Saturday night crowd had long since faded into the floorboards, leaving behind the ghostly, stale traces of spilled beer, cheap cigar smoke, and the faint, lingering jasmine perfume of Madame Genevieve's girls. The cavernous room, with its massive cr
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two days until they can meet with Wylan's fisherman.
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The waddle of shame. I was searching for something else, and got sidetracked by this
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The Merchant that followed them from Nabalus. He followed them after Seb's bad dye job right to the Fondaco. And there is a second person that recognized him, but that will be revealed later.
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When I wrote this, I needed a way to pin them and complicate the escape. Four chests of gold made perfect sense. You can't run through a city to a boat carrying that much wealth and not be noticed. Baldwin is not the ruler of Jaffa, yet, he needs time while Darien is laying dying (from his perspective) He is there to claim the city once that happens. Right now, Julian is the Regent of the Principality of Galilee. Lord Ibelin appeared out of nowhere historically, in Jaffa. It is an intriguing story. (This Ibelin being the father of the one from Kingdom of Heaven) Once you realize that Sebastian is Balian of Ibelin's father I encourage you to rewatch the film.
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Dieter abandoned to the Seljuks by his father's cowardice, his ordeal in the dungeons of Antioch during the siege, followed by his journey to Jerusalem following the armies of Raymond, and later Godfrey, before eventually running from it all to Jaffa. A beautiful face, lost in the darkest places of the crusade, surviving whatever way he could, and living with the betrayal of the man that was supposed to protect him. A foul mouthed, spitting ball of rage trying to hide the scars. I don't think what he wants from Erik is sex (I feel that was bluster and swagger.) He's looking for someone to hold him while he comes apart.
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The walk from the opulent Genoese suite to the war room felt less like a stroll through a palace and more like the long, agonizing march to a scaffold. Séb’s boots struck the polished marble floors of the Fondaco with a heavy, measured rhythm, each footfall echoing off the vaulted ceilings. The blue velvet doublet, tailored for a seasoned lord, felt like a beautifully constructed shroud. It fit him well enough—his shoulders and chest were broad from years of hauling crates in the neighborho
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Of the four boys, Ephraim is the on that is truly evil. Jeb was a coward, Lum was used, and Devon was a victim, and Ephraim damaged each of them. I tried to write how the event in the barn changed all four of them in different ways. Each of them seeing the event, remembering it in different ways, from different perspectives.
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I know there was a manuscript around in the 10-11th cent. Mainly Anglo-Saxon. HOW Dieter is able to read is a mystery that will be answered soon enough Everyone in that room was lying about who they are.
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You do not pull on a Coyote's tail and expect to remain unbitten.
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fixed it
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I forgot to set the autocorrect like I do for most names I will fix soon
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The sheep war, from what I have been reading, was brutal. Both sides clashing, and the law just didn't want to get involved. Often times completely ignoring the complaints of the Shepards in favour of the rich industrialists and bankers that were backing the cattlemen. Alvarez saying no shows the positive effect that Devon is having on him.
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Ch08 The afternoon sun beat down mercilessly on the rutted, drying mud of Lanternlight’s main avenue, baking the earth into a hard, cracked crust that threatened to turn to dust with the next stiff breeze. Inside the Lemon Saloon, the heat was stifling, trapped beneath the stamped-tin ceiling and the massive, unlit crystal chandeliers. The vast, cavernous room was entirely empty of patrons, a rare hour of silence before the evening rush would inevitably bring the cowboys, m
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Bottomless MUGS for ALL!
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It's more that Seb looks like a rough infantry man fresh from the desert before, after he's clean shaven, styled and looking like a Lord. So in a way, yes, but not specifically for Baldwin.
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Hairdresser's can go on crusade too I mean, someone has to do Erik's roots! That, and our heroes were about as subtle as bricks.
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The morning sun was already baking the marble of the Fondaco when the timid knock came at the heavy oak door. Séb was instantly on his feet, Lord Hugh’s broadsword half-drawn. Erik melted into the shadows near the balcony, an arrow nocked to the Fatimid recurve bow in a single, fluid motion. Amicie, entirely exhausted from the adrenaline crash of the previous night, simply sighed and went to the door. She cracked it open. A terrified Genoese servant stood there, visibly trembling, ho
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It's funny, I am in a legal dispute at the moment with a town council. Where they had the nerve to demand I stop using AI to formulate my letters. I am a former United Nations Civil Servant, Canadian Government Civil Servant, and a Professor of Communications. I responded by telling them that I don't need AI to write a letter. He'd much rather people write him angry unstructured letters so he can easily dismiss them as being "Emotional" Boy did he pick the wrong person to annoy.
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Although its origin may go back to Ancient Greece, the personal table fork was most likely invented in the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire, where they were in common use by the 4th century.[6][7] Records show that by the 9th century in some elite circles of Persia a similar utensil known as a barjyn was in limited use.[8] By the 10th century, the table fork was in common use throughout the Middle East.[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fork
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It's hard when it's someone with that level of history. People wander back to toxic relationships because of the familiar. Alvarez has made no move towards his intentions. Heck he hasn't even admitted he views Devon as anything more than a friend at this point. And along comes a boy who's professing love, that Devon's been in love with, reaching for him... I've been there, and it is amazing how many lies you're willing to tell yourself just to hold on to that one string of connection. I think, had Alvarez not been so... complacent, things would be very different. He deserves to be challenged.
