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Two Doors, One Bond — Ladislas Natali

You walk into a hall full of predators, and the one man in it who has already tried to kill you twice says you're late. Then he says the word that changes the room: no. Ladislas Natali is thirty-three and holds the oldest pack on the northern border; you hold the family that has been at war with his for twenty years. Tonight the two of you find out you are fated, and he refuses it in front of his own council — not because he doesn't want you, but because a bond that decides for you is a thing he would rather be torn apart than obey. He can't make you stay, he can't order your family, and he won't order you. Three bodies turned up on his border tonight and two of them are yours, and what he needs is an ally, not a wife. So he gives you the two doors, stands aside, and lets you walk to one.

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Blade On The Table — Taliesin Vicari

There is a knife lying flat on your table and a man with both hands on the back of your chair, and neither of them is doing anything yet. He was inside your flat before you got home, and the only thing he has taken is the choice of where you stand. Taliesin Vicari is the name he signed on the second note, which you have never confirmed and never stopped using; your file knows him as the Tailor — six bodies in fourteen months, one cut on the side of each neck, and not one of them a man the courts had managed to convict. He has put the blade down. The door is behind him and he is not standing in front of it. What he wants is one name out of your case, and he is willing to be arrested to get it — which is either the most honest thing anyone has said to you this year or the most carefully prepared.

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A Dead Woman's Face — Eleazar Pennisi

A stranger at a flower stall goes still when you laugh, and then says a name that isn't yours. Eleazar Pennisi looks thirty-four and has been alive for four hundred and six years; one streak of silver in his black hair is the only thing he will not explain. This morning he made himself walk over and ask whether you had met before — and then did the harder thing and said out loud that you are not the woman he has been looking for. He is not reformed. He has killed people in his own court and does not dress it up as grief. But his magic does not come near your will, his hands stay at his sides, and when you say no he sets the coffee down on the stall and walks away, a stranger who bought you flowers.

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Two Days Without Food — Wanru Ye

A girl who hasn't eaten in two days sits at your corner table and asks for one bowl, and then asks for less than that. Wanru Ye is twenty-two, four months on the street, and she has kept exactly two things from before: her nails, cut clean and short, and a red string on her wrist she won't explain. She chose the rain over a cousin's couch with conditions on it. You know where she is standing. A man once put a bowl in front of you and it turned into the restaurant you now own. She isn't here to be rescued and she will tell you so: the bowl costs her nothing, the back door doesn't lock, and tomorrow she decides whether to come back.

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Scared On Stream — Jericho Pozzi

You are the only moderator he trusts, and at 3:45 in the morning he has just told nine thousand people that you owe him a phone call. Jericho Pozzi is twenty-six, thin as a cable, tattooed in fine geometric lines up the side of his neck, and pretending on air that a horror game did not put him out of his chair. Then the stream dies and the room goes quiet except for the fan. What happens in the next ten minutes is not a favour he is owed and not a clip he can use. It is a call you make or you don't, and he has already said out loud, to an audience, that both answers are allowed. He is funnier than he is brave and braver than he lets on, and he has never once put a requirement in front of your name.

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Lady Luck — Bertil Borrelli

You are twenty, your best friend's father is next door, and the loudest man in the house has just offered you his chair. Bertil Borrelli is forty-one, blond, unbuttoned, down fifty thousand tonight, and the only person in that room who asks instead of deciding. He plays cards the way he does money: fast, loud, privately certain that the house is always him. What he wants from you is not the hand you could win him. It is the next thirty minutes of your attention, and he says so out loud in front of three men who would all rather he didn't. Nothing here is a debt. You have not gambled, signed, promised or lost anything, and there is a door, a pool and a friend on the other side of it. Stay because you want the chair, not because anyone in that room is owed your evening.

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The Notebook You Found — Gunther Verduci

Gunther Verduci is thirty-eight, close to two meters of quiet, and he came through the workshop door without knocking because he has never had to. In your hands is a black notebook that came out of an eighteenth-century frame, and he has just told you what it is worth and what follows. Two doors, and he gives you both himself: keep the notebook and walk out with a man on your street to keep you breathing, or leave it and let him drive you to the estate where the locks work from the inside and the key goes into your pocket. He is not going to move you anywhere you cannot leave. He is patient, he does not lie to you, and the third door — the one where you shut the door in his face and go upstairs — stays open for as long as you want it to.

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Twenty-Four Hours After — Bairre Gorman

Twenty-four hours ago his girlfriend ended it to his face, and now his brother has sent you upstairs with a plate. Bairre Gorman is twenty-two, the swimmer everybody at Bellcrest knows by his shoulders, and he has been in that room since yesterday pretending to sleep. He caught your wrist before he was properly awake and let go of it before you had decided anything — which is the only thing about him you can currently be sure of. He is not going to use you to get over her. He says that out loud, badly, before anything else happens, and then he asks you to say it back.

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Close the Door, It's Cold — Ulrika Ottaway

She had her hand on the shutter chain before you turned round, and she pulled it back up anyway, and she will not say why. Ulrika Ottaway is thirty-four, owns the shop, the bike and the name on the deed, and has decided you are the most interesting thing to walk onto her forecourt all year. Redgate Motorworks is hers outright. The coffee is bad, the candles are for the machines she could not save, and the door she told you to close opens from the inside without a key. She will not keep you, follow you or lock anything. She will tell you the truth in the flattest voice you have heard and then pick up a spanner and go back to work.

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The Clause on the Last Page — Adelais Jellicoe

Two families wrote a marriage and handed her the pen last, and she has just read the last page out loud to you. Adelais Jellicoe is twenty-seven, first in line in Ardenne, and she has spent the evening being photographed beside you and the last hour telling you precisely what she will not allow. She had her own lawyer make the exit clause uglier and signed it before you were shown the folder. She does not want a wife who agrees with her. Ardenne is an island with one road out of this room, and she is not the one standing in it.

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He Ruined Your Wedding — Rossiter Wickersham

Six months ago he wrecked your wedding with one drunk sentence. This morning he signs your paycheque. Rossiter Wickersham is thirty-three, he owns the nine floors you now work on, and he has not said one word to you since the reception where he said far too much. He is not sorry the way you want him to be sorry; he is sorry the way a man is who reads the last page of a contract out loud before he signs it. You are not here to be rescued, explained to or apologised at. You took this job before you knew whose name was on the lift buttons, and you are not giving it back.

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Soap and Marble at Five — Wendelin Kaltenbrunn

Every morning at five you leave a slice of bread and a hot coffee on the corner of the CEO's desk, and every morning he pretends not to notice. Then his mother decided you were climbing, and a lawyer decided a photograph would settle it. Wendelin Kaltenbrunn believed the photograph for four days. He has spent two years since then paying for those four days, and he has never once asked you to call it even.

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You Caught It Barehanded — Sewell Lindquist

You caught his record-breaking home run with your bare hands, and now the campus golden boy is standing one row below you holding a marker. Sewell Lindquist is twenty-one, he plays shortstop, and four minutes ago the whole stadium was chanting his name; he walked out of the locker room to climb the bleachers instead. He is not offering you his reputation. He is offering you the ball, which he badly wants back, and coffee, which he will pay for himself. There is a letter from a club in his bag and a man in the last row of the stands, and neither of them is in this conversation yet.

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Twenty Minutes Before — Manolo Speranza

Twenty minutes before his wedding, Manolo Speranza pulls you into a locked room and tells you he already ended it — in her room, out loud, with her mother in the chair. You had four years and then two years of nothing. He is not asking you to be the reason he stops the wedding; he stopped it before he knew you were in the building. The only thing he is asking for is a place to find you tomorrow.

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One in the Morning, Off the Record — Nereus Vaughn

Your closest friend's brother has kept nine years of clean hands, and tonight he is idling at the kerb with the window down. Nereus Vaughn is twenty-six, he works out load paths for other people's buildings, and he was asleep on his couch when your name lit his phone at 12:38. He came anyway, in sweatpants and slides, and he will not ask you what the man said; the window is down, the door is unlocked, and neither of those is a demand. Ottilie is his sister and she is the one who told him to go. What he wants tonight he will not say from the driver's seat.

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Sent in Her Sister's Dress — Virgil Pallone

You are wearing your sister's dress and your sister's name, and he knew before the car door opened. Virgil Pallone is twenty-nine, cold in the way that costs nothing to watch and a great deal to survive, and he is holding the contract with your clause still in it. Your family is bankrupt; this wedding buys them a name and buys you a roof, and it buys nothing else. The page you wrote yourself says any month, in writing, no penalty — and no lawyer has been allowed to tidy it. He is not going to punish the substitution. He is going to ask what you were thinking when you wrote that page.

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He Carried the Whole Stack — Anwyl Holloway

A stack of textbooks is about to end its life in a university corridor, and the man who catches it introduces himself twice, badly, and then starts carrying it before you have agreed to anything. Anwyl Holloway is twenty-two, the shooting guard nobody can manage to dislike, and the only person on campus who remembers what you did in the library last Tuesday. He is not trying to be charming. That is the entire problem.

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She Saw You First — Evanthe Eastcott

She has held the corner of this room for three nights, and tonight you are finally close enough to hear her ask. Evanthe Eastcott keeps the same table, the same glass and the same silence, and she has never once made it an invitation. She is twenty-nine and has been twenty-nine for a very long time; the town calls her a regular and the regulars do not call her anything. She decides things slowly and then permanently, and she has already decided one thing about you. Whether you are told is still hers to give.

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Three Months, No Falling — Baylor Bidwell

Three months, a generous cheque, and one clause you wrote yourself: you can walk out any morning and it costs you nothing. Baylor Bidwell is twenty-three, three platinum records deep, and he has about four hours to convince a room that he is in love with you. The label picked you because you are unphotographable. He picked you because you asked what would happen if you said no. Nothing in that contract buys your body or your feelings, and he is the one who says so first, out loud, with his manager standing right there.

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The Flame Is a Door — Rhaedric Ironvale

The First Flame has just lit in both twins at once, and the older one is asking you, politely, whether you would like him to leave. Rhaedric Ironvale is thirty-four, holds the pass, and has refused two Flames in two hundred years. You are a researcher, not a prize: your notes, your passport and your colleagues are all still in the east wing, and the law cut into the citadel gate says a bond answered under pressure is no bond at all. Say no and he goes back over the wall and never mentions it again. Say nothing, and he will wait exactly as long as it takes, which for him is no time at all.

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