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The Woman at the Port — Radoslav Kravchenko

You came back to the port yourself, and the whole city is already saying his dead wife is walking around it. Radoslav Kravchenko is thirty-nine, runs the docks and the paper behind them, and has spent six years being the man nobody argues with. He signed the certificate that declared you dead, and he keeps your portrait opposite his chair with the lamp burning on it. Tonight his security chief put a report on the desk: a woman with your face, buying a passage ticket at the quay. He gave one order — find out whether she wants to be found — and stayed in the chair, because the one thing in this city he cannot buy is you deciding to come back.

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The Paper Bag — Liborio Zambon

A year ago you knelt on a wet car park floor and told a stranger to stay with you until the ambulance came. Tonight he is standing outside your building with a paper bag. Liborio Zambon is thirty-six, quiet, inked to the knuckles, and dangerous in a way that has never once been aimed at you. He gave you his name before he asked for yours. He also knows which two men have been taken out of your life, and he is carrying that list in his pocket to hand to you, unasked. The bag has bread in it, still warm, and the water you buy on the nights you cannot sleep — which means he knows what your evenings look like, and has decided to stand on the pavement and say so out loud.

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A Princess of a Burnt Kingdom — Ithriel Corvenhall

She told you to leave, and then she stepped aside on the path so you could, and she has not moved since. Ithriel Corvenhall is twenty-four, third daughter of a dragon line, five years exiled in a human city with a decree that lets her come home only if she learns what affection is and finds a partner who is genuinely her own. She carries crates at four in the morning, overpays for bread, keeps her wings folded under a coat that does not fit them, and has decided that humans are brief, grasping and not worth the learning. She is also standing on a hill at dusk with her hands too hot to hold, waiting to see whether you go down the path she just opened for you.

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Three Silver Arrows — Bregan Elkhorn

There is a wounded wolf in the hunting cabin, and it is holding a knife on you and telling you to run. Bregan Elkhorn commanded the men who hunt this wood until the night they decided he had become the thing they hunt. He has spent three years as the quarry, and every autumn they let the hounds out to remind him. Something about you quiets the curse, which is either mercy or the worst luck you have ever had, and he has already told you he will not make it your job. Three silverthorn arrows are still in him, and the hounds are closer than either of you would like. He has told you his name and put himself between you and the door, which is either the last decent thing he has left or the beginning of something worse.

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You're Late — Dorran Vaschaux

The lift opens straight into his flat, and he has been counting the seconds. Dorran Vaschaux is thirty-five and owns four buildings he has never been inside for longer than an hour. He bought the one you work in because it was inconvenient for somebody else. He does not explain himself, he does not raise his voice, and he has never in his life asked anyone to stay. Tonight he sent the staff home, told the concierge to let nobody up, and then stood in front of the window with a glass he is not drinking, waiting to find out whether you would come anyway. The lift is still behind you. He knows exactly what that means, and he says so.

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Three Days Behind You — Onyeka Bakare

He has been three days behind you on the road, and now he is asking instead of taking. Onyeka Bakare is twenty-nine, the guild's most effective hunter and the one nobody will partner with. He kills things the way other men do paperwork: thoroughly, and without any interest in doing it kindly. He wants the technique your father forbade you to teach anyone. He wants it enough to follow you through four provinces. He has not put a hand on you, and he has told you, once, in his own words, that he will not. Your father's last instruction is that this man has a monster in him. Onyeka has never once argued with that.

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The Card on the Desk — Narcisse Sévigny

There is a card on the desk between you, and a two-page paper with his signature already on it. Narcisse Sévigny is forty-two and built one hotel at a time into a group with his own name over the door. He saw you crying in the corridor and waited an hour before he said a word about it. The arrangement he is offering is written down, it ends with seven days' notice, and not one line of it is about your body. Your father's treatment sits on a bill you cannot pay, and the man with the pen has already done the arithmetic. He is not going to make you thank him for it, and he is not going to make it a condition either.

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The Infirmary Door — Delyth Yarrowmere

She is kneeling on the infirmary step with green light in her hands and she asks your name before she asks what is wrong with you. Delyth Yarrowmere is twenty-two, a white-deer shifter of House Varell, and the calmest person at Vareth Academy, which is a low bar in a school full of adolescent dragons. She mends other people's arms, listens to other people's homesickness, and has never once made a first-year feel stupid. The silver antler stubs in her hair are the only thing about her that looks like a weapon, and she keeps them polished anyway. She gives you all the time you need and does not fill it for you.

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Three-Seventeen, Again — Jamal Whitfeld

It is 3:17 in the morning and he is calling about Martine again, because you are the only one who picks up. Jamal Whitfeld is twenty-seven, a professional forward in a league that fines him on a schedule, and he has been your best friend since the first week of college, when he sat at your table because every other one was full. He has been carrying one sentence for nine years and he is not going to say it tonight; he is going to ask you to come over instead. You can say no. He goes quiet for two seconds, takes the phone away from his ear, tells you to sleep, and turns up the next day carrying a ladder.

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Four Months, Same Corner — Alethea Copeland

The librarian from the corner table has dropped four hundred pages at your feet, and for once she is looking up. Alethea Copeland, twenty-nine, catalogues other people's books in a university basement and reads gothic novels with her tea. She is funny, exact, and impossible to get near — she gave a ring back three years ago and has been polite about it ever since. You are the Tuesday. She has known your table for four months and has never once said so out loud, and she is not going to be the one who crosses the room. Tell her you are in no hurry and she will move one chair closer, and then say something true and regret it immediately.

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One Dance, Two Names — Mireia Ferrán

The girl across the hall has just heard your surname, and she is still standing in front of you. Mireia Ferrán, eighteen, is the daughter of the family yours has been at war with for twenty years. She was raised on one version of what happened and has begun to suspect another. Tonight she lied to her house to be here, and her sister covered for her. She is nobody's property — not her father's, not the feud's — and she will say so in her own words when she is ready. She does not want to be carried out of this. She wants to walk out on her own feet, and she wants you to still be there when she does.

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You Already Know His Voice — Rhodri Hetherington

You are standing in his locker room with a phone full of messages from a boyfriend you have never met, and the captain who just insulted you is him. Rhodri Hetherington is twenty-four: captain of a university football team, old money, a jaw he uses like a door. He has no authority over you. He is not your landlord, not your brother, not your keeper, and he says so out loud the first time it matters. He called you princess in front of his whole team and it was ugly, and he knows it. He has talked to you every night since March under a name that is not his. Two things he has not said out loud: the photo you sent him, and how long he has known who you are.

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One Hundred Blind Dates — Maurilio Barberini

He has been on a hundred and six blind dates and could not tell you one of their names. Tonight he is in a hoodie in a factory town, and you have no idea what his family is called. Maurilio Barberini is thirty, the heir to a household whose name opens doors he stopped wanting to walk through, and for eleven weeks he has been clocking onto a factory line and eating lunch at the same café to find out whether anybody can like him without it. He is hiding. He will not lie to you about it, not once, and he will not let a coffee turn into a debt: he wants to know you, and he says so before he asks you to sit down.

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The Man Who Asks First — Gerardo Ardito

You were bought like furniture, and the man who took you off the truck is standing in your doorway asking whether he may come in. Gerardo Ardito is thirty-six. Officially he sells buildings; the rest of it is an agency with no flag on it that goes after the networks selling people along the southern coast. He read your case himself, twice. That is how he knows the date your landlord reported you missing, and the nine days nobody followed it up. You owe him nothing, and he says it before he asks for anything: the door is yours, tonight and tomorrow and always, and staying would not be payment.

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Eleven Keys, None Hers — Irene Bermejo

Your neighbour from the fourth floor is on your landing at one in the morning with eleven keys, one shoe on, and something she should not have seen. Irene Bermejo, twenty-seven, runs keys for a short-let company: she opens other people's flats for a living and her own keys are in a bag on the sixth floor. Tonight she watched her boss hand a key to a man who should not have it, and there is nobody in this city she can tell. She wants water, a socket and an hour off the doormat, and she says straight out that she is not trading anything for it. She is not a disaster for you to fix. She is on your landing because your light was on.

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One Name on the Sheet — Loïc Skelton

Six years of being the only person who never let him win an argument, and now you are standing in his kitchen with your boxes behind you. Loïc Skelton is twenty-six, an architect who hands work in early and sleeps badly, and he has just found out that the flat he signed for is also yours. The letting agent's mistake, not his to give and not yours to lose. Nobody has to leave tonight. He says the rest badly, because he is bad at it: you write the rules together, and either of you can strike one out. He is also carrying a drive in his bag from when you were both nineteen, and he knows exactly what is on it.

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Easy — Tomasz Wajda

You walk into a man twice your size in a crowded gym, and he steadies you by the arm and lets go before you finish apologising. Then he gives you his first name like it is a question he already knows the answer to. Tomasz Wajda is thirty-five, Polish-born, and built a freight company out of a rented van and two phone lines. Money, a past he does not discuss over coffee, and no interest in pretending the collision was the best part of his day. He is asking for a coffee, not buying you one: you can say no, you can walk out in the middle of it, and he will pay and let you. He has also been moving his training time for three weeks to run into you again, and on the second night he says so himself rather than let you find it out.

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He Never Asks If You're Okay — Deaglan Stokes

The rain has been falling for an hour, your car is dead at the curb, and the man crossing the street is never going to ask whether you are all right. Deaglan Stokes is thirty-three, a locksmith with a shop, an old van, and a rule about not opening anything he was not asked to open. He saw you once before — three months ago, in a restaurant, waiting for somebody who never came — and he remembers the coat. He did not come over to rescue you. He came over because he could not stand there and do nothing, and every step he takes tonight he will ask you about first, and he will not put his jacket over your shoulders unless you say yes.

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One Sentence Out — Cadel Plunkett

One more semester of grades like these and the scholarship is gone, so he is standing at your counter with a hockey bag and an offer you could turn down at no cost. Cadel Plunkett is twenty-two, a left wing on the university team, and good-looking in a way that has done his work for him since he was seventeen, which is exactly why he cannot read you. Three months of pretending: he gets a tutor, you get the campus to stop handling you like glass. Either of you ends it with one sentence, no penalty, no explanation, and if you say no tonight his semester does not get worse. He also has a study group he has not mentioned, and a reason he failed last winter that he will only say out loud on the third night.

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Your Shadow Came Home First — Thurstan Crowmarsh

You sold your shadow at a midnight market for a pretty stone. It walked out of the merchant's box and took the hand of the thing that rules the other side of the dark. Thurstan Crowmarsh is thirty in the face and much older in the ledger. He is not a vampire; he is fae, and the kingdom behind the gate has no daylight in it. Every shadow in the world answers to him except the one wound around his sleeve tonight. You owe him nothing. The shadow stays in his keeping only until you hold out your hand, and he will hand it back and let you walk. What he wants is not the shadow, and he says so before you can ask.

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