The mask comes off, and Finney leaves the basement behind. He's still not free.

We're not homosexuals; we're divorced.

For the prompt of Adrian being a big nerd, him being a small nerd about something that isn't Egypt or Alexander for once. When Adrian Veidt is twelve years old, he discovers Homer's Iliad.

Crozier fixes his mind on the recollection of cruelty, and starts to work on himself.

Sui Zhou was never made for precisive work with frangible things, but that has not once stopped Tang Fan from taking him in hand and seeing him put to that purpose.

Ian likes to be helpful. Adam needs a whole lot of help.

Joan's not used to making impulsive decisions, and now she's making one after another.

Debbie, Holden, a tub of Vaseline, and a lazy Sunday. When they're unlucky, they get to bring their work home with them.

Edward receives an education in the inutility of virtue. The Earl abducts him for a session of discipline.

“I’m sorry,” he says, breathless and utterly unrepentant. He kisses at the corner of Sui Zhou’s mouth, petting down the column of his throat, tracing his fingers along the kick of his pulse. “Guangchuan, you poor thing, my good boy, come here.”