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    Burning Fast
    Threadmarks: 2.2 — The Wards, Observing

    The meeting was described to him as "informal." Greg had been processing this descriptor for three days. Informal was one of those words that contained a significant amount of unstated information — it told you what something wasn't (formal, structured, procedurally defined) without telling you...
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    Sovereign of Blood and Scale
    Threadmarks: CHAPTER THREE Ordinary Placement

    The office smelled like paper, wax, and something I eventually identified as the particular staleness of a room that was aired out only rarely and briefly — opened for specific purposes, closed immediately after, kept clean because cleanliness projected a kind of authority that disorder could...
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    Greg Veder: The Quiet Roar
    Threadmarks: 3.7 – Fallout Triangle

    The message arrived at 7:43 AM. Three words. Greg read it. Put his phone face-down on the desk. Picked it up again. We need to talk. The words hadn't changed. He'd been awake since 4:30—not insomnia, the other kind. The kind that came after nights when his brain had processed too much and...
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    Burning Fast
    Threadmarks: 2.1 — Stopping on Purpose

    He arrived twenty minutes early. This was not unusual for him — he'd arrived twenty minutes early to most things his entire life, because arriving late produced the specific anxiety of walking into a situation that had already started without him, which was its own category of bad — but he was...
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    Greg Veder: The Quiet Roar
    Threadmarks: PHO INTERLUDE E

    Welcome to the Parahumans Online Message Boards You are currently logged in, NightOwl_Brockton (Regular Member) You are viewing: • Threads you have replied to • AND Threads that have new replies • OR private message conversations with new replies • Thread OP is displayed • Ten posts per page •...
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    Burning Fast
    Threadmarks: 1.7 — Redline

    His mom made tea. This was her processing behavior. He'd known this since he was eight, when she'd made tea after his dad left and drunk three cups in a row and then been very calm and practical for approximately two hours before going into her room and closing the door. Tea meant: large thing...
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    Burning Fast
    Threadmarks: 1.I — PRT Preliminary Assessment: REDLINE

    PARAHUMAN RESPONSE TEAM BROCKTON BAY CONTINGENT — ENE DIVISION NEW MANIFESTER PRELIMINARY ASSESSMENT REPORT CLASSIFICATION: RESTRICTED — INTERNAL USE ONLY Distribution: ENE Command, Medical, Records, PRT Central (copy) SUBJECT: REDLINE (provisional designation, fan-assigned; subject...
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    Greg Veder: The Quiet Roar
    Threadmarks: Chapter 3.6 – The Roar That Says No

    What He Carries Into the Dark The message had said: warehouse district, eastern edge, follow the pattern you identified. Miss Militia's reply had given him an address three blocks from where he'd encountered Jack. A safe house, she'd said, in the compressed language of someone who didn't have...
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    Sovereign of Blood and Scale
    Threadmarks: CHAPTER TWO The Students Who Outgrew Me

    The courtyard was full of noise. Not the charged, uncertain noise of students waiting for results — that had broken apart the moment the board lit and scattered into a dozen different kinds of sound. This was the noise of the aftermath. Louder in some places, quiet in others, unevenly...
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    Burning Fast
    Threadmarks: 1.6 — Questions in a White Room

    The room was very white and very bright and smelled like new carpet. Greg had been in it for twenty-two minutes. He knew this because there was a clock on the wall — not a decorative clock, a functional one, large numerals, the kind of clock that existed specifically to tell people what time it...
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    Sovereign of Blood and Scale
    Threadmarks: CHAPTER ONE The Day I Failed in Public

    I used to love ranking boards. There was a time — not so long ago that I cannot remember it clearly, because I remember everything clearly, which is its own particular curse — when I would walk into an assessment hall and feel something close to hunger. Not nerves. Not dread. Hunger. The clean...
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    Greg Veder: The Quiet Roar
    Threadmarks: 3.5 – A Story Offered on a Knife

    The Wrong Alley at the Wrong Time Greg would think about this later—the specific sequence of decisions that had produced the encounter—and he would identify at least four separate points where a different choice would have prevented it entirely. He would not, in retrospect, be able to call any...
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    Burning Fast
    Threadmarks: 1.PHO — Did Anyone See the Fire Kid Downtown?

    PARAHUMANS ONLINE The Parahuman Discussion Forum — Where Capes Are Our Business BROCKTON BAY LOCAL >> SIGHTINGS & INCIDENTS Thread: Did anyone see the fire kid downtown last night? [Tradd Street / transition zone] Posted by: HarborWatchBB Thursday, 11:47 PM HarborWatchBB | 234...
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    Greg Veder: The Quiet Roar
    Threadmarks: 3.4 – The Smell of Slaughter

    Before the Broadcast Greg noticed the change before the announcement. That was the thing about living in a city long enough to learn its emotional texture—you started to feel shifts the way you felt pressure changes before rain. Not through any single input. Through accumulation. Through the...
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    Greg Veder: The Quiet Roar
    Threadmarks: PHO INTERLUDE D

    THREAD Thread: Nine in Brockton + New Faces in the Game — Who Are These People Forum: Parahumans Online (PHO) Board: Brockton Bay – Local Threats & Sightings Status: Active → Locked (Incident Escalation) ► Posted by: DockwatcherKev (Veteran Member) Timestamp: May 4, 2011 — 6:12 PM Okay...
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