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Thread: Medsi
Post: RE: Medsi
| Minutes passed and Jay was about to get up and walk out. Maybe lay down on the floor and take a nap. Something. When he heard voices in the distance, he ignored them, short of his own name sounding ac... |
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Jay Carpenter |
Hospitals & Research Centers
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10-19-2025, 08:36 PM |
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Thread: Medsi
Post: RE: Medsi
| He hadn’t been keeping up with Custody announcements lately, but that name hit like a bag of bricks. Not because of Cyrena, specifically. But because of her father. Marveet had been in Mexico. Back wh... |
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Jay Carpenter |
Hospitals & Research Centers
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10-04-2025, 01:49 AM |
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Thread: Medsi
Post: RE: Medsi
| A glance in the direction the girl had gone tugged a response, almost in afterthought. “Yeah," he muttered finally, voice low and gravel-rough. "I can see that.”
Neither one of the couple looked li... |
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Jay Carpenter |
Hospitals & Research Centers
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6,645 |
07-23-2025, 09:21 PM |
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Thread: Medsi
Post: RE: Medsi
| Jay sat hunched in the curved arm of a surprisingly comfortable chair, his coat pulled tight across his chest. The drugs had long worn off by now. His hand throbbed like a heartbeat caught in bone, an... |
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Jay Carpenter |
Hospitals & Research Centers
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6,645 |
06-01-2025, 07:33 PM |
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Thread: Your theme song
Post: RE: Your theme song
| https://youtu.be/AKnC-W-JPJk?si=XYwAOZdAeZmyOldM
New theme song.
Lord Huron. The night we met. |
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Jay Carpenter |
General Discussion
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05-28-2025, 02:00 AM |
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Thread: Medsi
Post: Medsi
| Continued from The Long Way Home (https://thefirstage.org/forums/thread-1843-post-21621.html#pid21621)
The car dropped Jay off at the curb. Medsi hospital rose in modern lines of glass and chrome... |
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Jay Carpenter |
Hospitals & Research Centers
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6,645 |
05-28-2025, 12:37 AM |
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Thread: The Long Way Home
Post: RE: The Long Way Home
| Jay watched Elyse as she stood, her golden eyes catching what little light remained in the entry hall. She had steadied herself again, more human now than wolf, but something about her still felt anci... |
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Jay Carpenter |
Red-light district
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05-27-2025, 11:50 PM |
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Thread: The Long Way Home
Post: RE: The Long Way Home
| Jay blinked. A wolf spirit? The hell?
He’d fought men who could rip steel with their minds. But somehow, this... This quiet girl with her golden eyes and too-human pain felt stranger than all of it... |
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Jay Carpenter |
Red-light district
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05-27-2025, 07:13 PM |
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Thread: The Long Way Home
Post: RE: The Long Way Home
| Jay was strangely quiet for once, watching her sink to the floor like someone defusing a bomb inside her own head. That image hanging in the air, this girl with her arm around another one made his thr... |
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Jay Carpenter |
Red-light district
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18,483 |
05-27-2025, 12:52 AM |
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Thread: The Long Way Home
Post: RE: The Long Way Home
| Jay had one boot fully laced, his wallet halfway back in his coat pocket, when everything seemed to hit at once.
Voices rising. Footsteps. That girl standing in the middle of the room like she migh... |
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Jay Carpenter |
Red-light district
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18,483 |
05-26-2025, 11:17 PM |
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Thread: The Long Way Home
Post: RE: The Long Way Home
| Jay was still hunched over, double-checking the laces on his wet boots when he heard the sound of footsteps behind him, and straightened slowly. He didn’t know what he expected, another kid probably. ... |
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Jay Carpenter |
Red-light district
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18,483 |
05-26-2025, 10:22 PM |
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Thread: The Long Way Home
Post: RE: The Long Way Home
| Jay nearly jumped when the voice cut through the hallway. He turned sharply, heart kicking once in his chest, and found himself face to face with... what the hell? A teenager.
Lanky, shaggy-haired,... |
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Jay Carpenter |
Red-light district
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18,483 |
05-26-2025, 09:20 PM |
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Thread: The Long Way Home
Post: RE: The Long Way Home
| Jay barely had time to react before Nox’s hand closed around his arm and tugged him fully into the room. The door shut with a quiet, decisive click behind him. The lock turned.
Then-warm breath, b... |
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Jay Carpenter |
Red-light district
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18,483 |
05-26-2025, 08:35 PM |
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Thread: The Long Way Home
Post: RE: The Long Way Home
| The sleet hit suddenly. A cold, creeping storm that began as pinpricks of water against Jay’s neck and turned, without warning, into a full-body assault. Icy drops soaked through the seams of his coat... |
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Jay Carpenter |
Red-light district
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18,483 |
05-26-2025, 07:17 PM |
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Thread: The Long Way Home
Post: RE: The Long Way Home
| Jay felt the shift as Nox dropped to his knees.
The cold bled straight through his coat now, the railing biting like a warning. The metal beneath Nox’s hands, the way he looked up... ready, open, ... |
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Jay Carpenter |
Red-light district
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18,483 |
05-26-2025, 02:19 AM |
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Thread: The Long Way Home
Post: RE: The Long Way Home
| Jay didn’t move when Nox leaned in. Not at first. He just stared, chest heaving, blood roaring in his ears like static. His pulse beat out of rhythm, fists twitching at his sides, barely held in check... |
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Jay Carpenter |
Red-light district
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18,483 |
05-26-2025, 12:37 AM |
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Thread: The Long Way Home
Post: RE: The Long Way Home
| Jay heard the words.
He heard them. Every last sorry. Every last scrape of regret.
But they didn’t land. They didn’t sink. They spun around him like smoke in a locked room. Impossible to breathe... |
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Jay Carpenter |
Red-light district
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18,483 |
05-25-2025, 10:58 PM |
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Thread: The Long Way Home
Post: RE: The Long Way Home
| Jay’s hands stayed in his coat pockets, fingers tightening around the bruised bones of his hand. The pain hadn’t left. It was still there, not sharp, not screaming, but settled deep beneath the skin l... |
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Jay Carpenter |
Red-light district
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18,483 |
05-25-2025, 09:52 PM |
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Thread: The Long Way Home
Post: RE: The Long Way Home
| There was something strangely poetic about finding Nox here. Alone, half-shrouded in neon haze and city dust, the red light district clinging to them both like bad cigarette smoke. Fitting, maybe. Lik... |
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Jay Carpenter |
Red-light district
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18,483 |
05-25-2025, 05:33 PM |
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Thread: The Long Way Home
Post: RE: The Long Way Home
| A scan to the left and the right found only lonely people. Solitary figures drifting through synthetic haze and cheap neon, their shadows stretching long across puddled concrete. A single snowflake, b... |
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Jay Carpenter |
Red-light district
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18,483 |
05-25-2025, 02:27 AM |
