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  1. Public Bookmark 95

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    Kaveh expects some offhandedly smug, smooth remark from Alhaitham about how Kaveh’s his senior but never acts like it, or how it was the most logical outcome given the circumstances and he’s being a child for debating with him about it. But he just mumbles, low and almost petulant, “It is what it is.” He won’t meet Kaveh’s eyes. “You can’t move out.”

    Kaveh balks at him before rubbing at his face furiously. “You can’t be serious. You can’t be serious,” he laughs, almost delirious. There’s no way his luck has reached this new low. He knows the ascended heroes on Celestia are guffawing at his misfortune. “Why would you do that when you’ve always wanted me to leave anyway?”

    Alhaitham stares at him for a long moment before sighing, slipping into his seat and sliding his plate of Kaveh’s carefully constructed Fatteh towards him primly. “Why indeed,” he drones, sounding exhausted. “Why indeed.”

    or: in which there’s a cohabitation clause in sumeru city’s body of legislation; a pair who lives together for longer than six months, files taxes together, and presents as a couple are considered married by law. who knew. (alhaitham, apparently.)

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    26 Jul 2026

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    Or, Kaveh has a dream about a life he could have lived.

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    26 Jul 2026

    Bookmarker's Notes

    THE LAST LINE OHMYGOD YES GET BACK AT HIM KAVEH i love this so much this had me teary-eyed definitely deserves a reread :’)

  3. Public Bookmark 20

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    Kaveh skids to a halt right in the middle of the room.

    He thought he might find Al-Haitham here—it’s his favorite room after his bedroom—but he didn’t expect to find him sprawled out on the middle divan, legs stretched out leisurely and his head lolled to one side. His eyes are closed, his facial muscles so relaxed his mouth’s fallen open a sliver. Kaveh can see the pink of his tongue.

    In his arms he’s cradling Mehrak.

    Kaveh, Al-Haitham and Mehrak may not be the most typical family—but they are a family nonetheless. And, surprisingly enough, it turns out that having a semi-sentient toolbox as a pseudo-daughter can do wonders for a broken relationship.

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    24 Jul 2026

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    Like Haitham would even care, Kaveh almost says, before remembering that the whole point is making everyone think Al-Haitham would, in fact, care.

    “Oh, he’ll show up, all right,” he says instead. “He’s going to show up so hard, you don’t even know. Because he cares. So much. About me.”

    His abductors trade looks with each other.

    “Why do you think he’s into him?” the first man whispers, perfectly audible.

    The other shrugs. “Maybe the ex-Acting Grand Sage likes blondes?”

     

    Or: After the truth of his living situation finally gets out to the rest of Sumeru, Kaveh knows he has only one way to protect his reputation: convince everyone that he and Al-Haitham are married.

    Too bad he never realized the risk of being the former Acting Grand Sage’s wife.

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    15 Jul 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 8

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    He knew that. He was aware of it all, and yet he kept living like that. For the past years, it was what held him afloat, his chin up high and a smile on his face when bared to the eye of the public. He didn't mind it at all, living this double life. A "Light" in the open world, viewed as the treasure of Kshahrewar, the brightest student to shine.

     
    A "Light" that was a double-edged sword, the other side of it pointed at his chest, threatening to tear the skin of the flesh and spread uncomfortable sun beams of his tormented soul onto unsuspecting others.

     

    And now, apparently, Alhaitham knew of it too. Was aware of it for quite some time, it seemed.

    or; A story wherein Kaveh struggles with the unbeknownst to him, overbearing, feelings of love. Where to others, the discovery of the feeling brings a smile to their lips, to Kaveh, it is an equation that brings immense unease to his gut, too difficult to solve.

    Even with the help of another.

    Until it doesn't.

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    14 Jul 2026

    Bookmarker's Notes

    this made me cry