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  1. Public Bookmark 24

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    duncan the tall has never once in his life believed he deserved anything good. lyonel baratheon has never once in his life met someone he couldn't charm into comfort. and then they meet each other and it goes extremely badly for both of them.

    lyonel sees duncan immediately. like, embarrassingly immediately, and spends the entire story quietly making room for a man who has no idea how to take up space that's been offered freely. duncan spends the entire story watching for the catch that isn't coming and slowly, painfully, running out of reasons to keep watching.

    it's a slow burn. there's a tourney, there's a war, trial by combat, separation and there's twenty years of aftermath. there are two men who are completely different in every way that matters to the world and completely necessary to each other in every way that doesn't. there's a lot of not saying things. there's a lot of saying things with your hands or your silence or by staying in the room slightly longer than you needed to.

    the whole thing is basically: what happens when someone sees you accurately, before you've earned it, and doesn't look away.

    (it wrecked me to write it so hopefully it wrecks you to read it)

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    25 Apr 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 17

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    It's Dunk's first joust working as Ser Lyonel Baratheon's squire. Coming off his victory, Lyonel presses his advantage.

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    21 Apr 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 64

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    It’s a small enough thing, the Baratheon stag engraved into the lid. It had perhaps been locked once, but the salty sea air of Storm’s End softens most wood after enough years, and the latch tears clean out when he gives it a good pull. Old too, then. Inside is another bundle of parchment, neatly folded and tied with fraying twine.

    More damned papers, he thinks for a disappointed moment, nearly shutting it again- what a waste this whole venture had been. But these do not look like more records. There is something personal in how they have been handled and hidden away, and Renly begins picking at the twine with curious fingers. When it falls away, he unfolds the first sheet, and finds a letter.

    Milord Lyonel, it begins.

    [Renly Baratheon, young and full of confusing feelings, discovers that he may not be as alone as he believes.]

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    20 Apr 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 74

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    The Smith hammered some with cunt as well as cock. Dunk, one such, has lived his life in the knowledge that like others only lightly hammered he will never bear child, and so an evening's encounter with the heir apparent to the Stormlands can threaten nothing but his own soft heart. After Ashford he crosses the Red Mountains with a boy in tow, only to learn in Dorne he carries more.

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    19 Apr 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 55

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    "Seven hells," Lyonel curses, and Dunk feels his face go red. "I know you're as thick as a castle wall, but did you really have to be blessed with a trebuchet as well?"

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    18 Apr 2026