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The Stress of Her Regard

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The Stress of Her Regard	comment	A 1989 historical fantasy novel by Tim Powers, set in early nineteenth century Europe. The premise reworks several historically collected quotations and poems from authors in that era into a meta-Cosmic Horror Story, exploring and explaining the personal anguish inherent to artists through the lens of vampires and ancient conspiracies. As such, Powers gets to show off his knowledge of the minutiae of that era by writing an adventure spanning the entire European continent.Earth is secretly home to at least three intelligent species, of which only humans were active in historical times — until someone woke one of them up 800 years before the story opens, seeking to become immortal in exchange for providing a linkage between the two species which would allow them to become active again. This species is referred to in-story as the nephelim — a reference to the ancient Christian myths of the Nephilim that once walked the earth in the days before the Flood. (The third species is represented by the mountains themselves; they are expected to inherit the Earth in the far future.)The nephelim can offer immortality and poetic inspiration, but at a price: they are vampires, and while they do not directly harm their human hosts, they are jealous "spouses" and will kill their hosts' families. Several English Romantic poets encountered over the course of the story have such "spouses" and have lost close family members to them, but cannot bear to break free at the cost of no longer being able to create great poetry. Those who try to break free are subject to pursuit.The story's protagonist is an English obstetrician named Crawford, who is about to marry for the second time (his first, unhappy marriage ended with his wife's death in a fire) to a respectable young Englishwoman named Julia. During a drunken escapade the night before marrying Julia, Crawford puts a wedding ring on the finger of a statue; unfortunately, the statue was a nephelim seeking a human host that would let her cross the English channel in pursuit of her previous host, Percy Bysshe Shelley. The nephelim kills Julia on their wedding night, forcing him to flee to the Continent. He is pursued by her twin sister, Josephine, who has... issues. While on the run, he involves himself with several similarly affected persons-of-importance, gets roped into both sides of a conspiracy-cum-revolutionary-movement, and slowly uncovers the ties that bind mankind and the nephelim.Received a sequel, Hide Me Among the Graves, in 2012.
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The Stress of Her Regard / int_1c5002bc	type	The Stoic
The Stress of Her Regard / int_1c5002bc	comment	The Stoic: Josephine.
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The Stress of Her Regard / int_1e8f4221	type	Fingore
The Stress of Her Regard / int_1e8f4221	comment	Fingore: Those bonded to a Nephilim commonly receive the "nephilim's kiss", having their left ring finger bitten off. Crawford, for eminently sensible and logical reasons, later bites off most of his left pinky and spits it in a small child's face.
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The Stress of Her Regard / int_1fc8335e	type	Deal with the Devil
The Stress of Her Regard / int_1fc8335e	comment	Deal with the Devil: Shelley makes a deal with his twin sister, giving himself to her (and apparently allowing her to burn out the creative part of his brain) in exchange for leaving his children alone. She reneges pretty much immediately.
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The Stress of Her Regard / int_1fd2efc9	type	Byronic Hero
The Stress of Her Regard / int_1fd2efc9	comment	Byronic Hero: Lord Byron is a major character who provides critical help at key points in the story. All the other (successful) authors that show up (Keats and Shelley, among others) are examples. It seems to be a chronic ailment among artists.
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The Stress of Her Regard / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
The Stress of Her Regard / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: Numerous pieces of period literature, fiction and nonfiction, are reinterpreted or reworked into the supernatural setting. These quotations tend to be at the beginning of each chapter, and act as unfired guns for the moment. The biggest one would have to be the fact that Aickman came across some intimate knowledge of the Big Bad disguised as rather obscure information while in medical school.
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The Stress of Her Regard / int_24a99217	type	Maternal Death? Blame the Child!
The Stress of Her Regard / int_24a99217	comment	Maternal Death? Blame the Child!: Discussed in connection with Julia and Josephine's mother. Josephine clearly blames herself. Julia tells Crawford that she and their father don't blame Josephine, and have told her so; one can be left with the impression that even if she's being accurate, their going on about it hasn't helped.
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The Stress of Her Regard / int_24e51e8	type	Mistaken for Murderer
The Stress of Her Regard / int_24e51e8	comment	Mistaken for Murderer: Crawford is presumed to have murdered Julia by nearly everybody, and particularly by Josephine, because it happened while he and Julia were alone in a location no other human could have entered.
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The Stress of Her Regard / int_27690f66	type	Literary Allusion Title
The Stress of Her Regard / int_27690f66	comment	Literary Allusion Title: The title comes from a poem by Clark Ashton Smith, which is quoted as the novel's epigraph.
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The Stress of Her Regard / int_28e90e30	type	More than Mind Control
The Stress of Her Regard / int_28e90e30	comment	More than Mind Control: It's hard enough for normal people to give up their connection to a nephilim. For people inclined to define themselves by their writing, such as every poet in this book, it's like cutting off your own limb.
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The Stress of Her Regard / int_2fd7200b	type	Dead Guy Junior
The Stress of Her Regard / int_2fd7200b	comment	Dead Guy Junior: In the end, we learn that Crawford and Josephine named their son John for the poet John Keats.
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The Stress of Her Regard / int_322f6b34	type	Angsty Surviving Twin
The Stress of Her Regard / int_322f6b34	comment	Angsty Surviving Twin: Josephine.
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The Stress of Her Regard / int_3318a1cb	type	Distant Finale
The Stress of Her Regard / int_3318a1cb	comment	Distant Finale: Ends with a thirty-years later epilogue showing that things turned out all right for Crawford and Josephine and their descendants, and throwing in a few observations about how things turned out for the poets.
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The Stress of Her Regard / int_35e2fb78	type	The Mirror Shows Your True Self
The Stress of Her Regard / int_35e2fb78	comment	The Mirror Shows Your True Self: This is true of the Nephilim; several times when one is preparing to seduce a human, they're shown taking care to first dispose of any nearby mirrors to avoid a mood-breaking revelation.
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The Stress of Her Regard / int_370aad9	type	Split Personality
The Stress of Her Regard / int_370aad9	comment	Split Personality: Josephine has at least two: An imitation of her sister Julia, and one which is likened in movement and personality to an automaton. She's prone to slipping into them at inconvenient times.
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The Stress of Her Regard / int_38e4b69d	type	Mister Seahorse
The Stress of Her Regard / int_38e4b69d	comment	Technically she's not the only one, as The Man Behind The Curtain does eventually die off-screen from surgical complications that revoke his Mister Seahorse status.
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The Stress of Her Regard / int_396e1c2a	type	Face Death with Dignity
The Stress of Her Regard / int_396e1c2a	comment	Face Death with Dignity
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The Stress of Her Regard / int_3c3f28a5	type	Blessed with Suck
The Stress of Her Regard / int_3c3f28a5	comment	Blessed with Suck: It's great being a Nephilim's lover. You develop astounding skill with language and words, and you'll be protected from anything that could ever hurt you, even old age and death. And all it wants is all of your love. Oh, and the deaths of everyone else in your life. And you won't be allowed to love anyone else. Not even yourself.
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The Stress of Her Regard / int_485d09ab	type	Creator In-Joke
The Stress of Her Regard / int_485d09ab	comment	Creator In-Joke: Powers' running in-joke of mentioning the fictional poet William Ashbless. Crawford includes him in a list of famous poets at one point, and one of the chapter epigraphs is claimed to have been translated into English by Ashbless.
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The Stress of Her Regard / int_4d2331fd	type	Silver Has Mystic Powers
The Stress of Her Regard / int_4d2331fd	comment	Silver Has Mystic Powers: Silver is harmful to the nephilim.
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The Stress of Her Regard / int_516f986d	type	Loving a Shadow
The Stress of Her Regard / int_516f986d	comment	Loving a Shadow: Crawford realizes eventually that he never really knew Julia, and that if Josephine's imitation of her is anything like the real thing, he's better off without her.
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The Stress of Her Regard / int_539a77a5	type	Silicon-Based Life
The Stress of Her Regard / int_539a77a5	comment	Silicon-Based Life: The nephilim.
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The Stress of Her Regard / int_5d6a98a	type	One Myth to Explain Them All
The Stress of Her Regard / int_5d6a98a	comment	One Myth to Explain Them All: The nephilim are the origins of many myths, including the Biblical nephilim, succubi, vampires, muses, gorgons, the sphinx, and modern literary creations such as Frankenstein's Monster. At one point, Crawford half-jokingly suggests that the Norse Myth of the Death of Baldur, in which a supernaturally-beautiful man is killed with a sharpened length of wood, might be another folk memory of a nephilim encounter, and Byron asks despairingly if there are any myths that aren't about the nephilim.
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The Stress of Her Regard / int_643618e5	type	Replacement Goldfish
The Stress of Her Regard / int_643618e5	comment	Replacement Goldfish: Deconstructed. After Crawford's wife Julia is murdered, he ends up with her sister Josephine, but the transfer of affection is neither instantaneous nor easy — it's many pages and years of in-story time before the possibility even occurs to them, and many more before they get together — and the things he loves about Josephine are on the whole the things in which she is least like Julia.
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The Stress of Her Regard / int_6439de78	type	Heroic Sacrifice
The Stress of Her Regard / int_6439de78	comment	Heroic Sacrifice: The cruise of poets, in which several victims of the Nephilim give their own lives to protect their families.
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The Stress of Her Regard / int_6774150c	type	If I Can't Have Youâ€¦
The Stress of Her Regard / int_6774150c	comment	If I Can't Have You…: The Nephilim just want to be loved, completely and unconditionally, by the humans they choose. And to make sure you'll always love them they'll kill everyone else you love to make sure you're all theirs.
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The Stress of Her Regard / int_6a1c2a6	type	Cosmic Horror Story
The Stress of Her Regard / int_6a1c2a6	comment	Cosmic Horror Story: All over the place. The nephilim are both far more powerful than any man and a little too insubstantial to touch. All attempts to oppose them tend to be some dangerous desperate ritual. Garlic and extremely conductive or insulative material (in the form of, say, highly conductive silver bullets, or highly insulative wooden stakes) are the only defenses, and the slightest bit of human error will screw those over. A sequence in the middle of the book bears mentioning: Percy Bysshe Shelley, Aickman, Josephine and various family friends are all living together at a beach-house in Italy. Percy is afflicted by a nephilim and is attempting to ward it off. It's some time before he can fully cast it off, and in the meantime the dozen or so people in the house have to constantly be on guard against nephelim: don't go outside at night, coat your windows with garlic, don't talk to strangers, always keep the blinds closed. The confined nature doesn't make anyone else that happy. Then, one by one, people in the house fall in love with various nephilim that came to haunt Shelley. Most of these people are married and don't know anything about the nephelim, but are carrying out secret affairs with them and becoming more and more lifeless. So you have, essentially, families and loved ones being destroyed by some supernatural force no one truly see or understand.
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The Stress of Her Regard / int_6cf96262	type	Our Sphinxes Are Different
The Stress of Her Regard / int_6cf96262	comment	Our Sphinxes Are Different: One of the oldest and most powerful of the nephilim is the inspiration for the Greek legend of the sphinx. It does not resemble the traditional appearance of a sphinx, and in fact doesn't have a coherent physical form at all. It does ask the Riddle of the Sphinx, which is revealed to have a true answer different from the answer traditionally given.
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The Stress of Her Regard / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
The Stress of Her Regard / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide
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The Stress of Her Regard / int_771f6307	type	Brother–Sister Incest
The Stress of Her Regard / int_771f6307	comment	Brother–Sister Incest: Shelley's nephilim is his twin sister. Byron also engaged in this with his sister.
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The Stress of Her Regard / int_78d103c3	type	Exposition of Immortality
The Stress of Her Regard / int_78d103c3	comment	Exposition of Immortality: There are hints almost immediately about the old Frenchman who helps Crawford, starting with the fact that he speaks a dialect so archaic that Crawford doesn't recognize it as French until the old man tells him it is, but the thing that settles it is a song the old man sings. Later on, Byron hears Crawford singing it and tells him it's a 15th-century ballad of which the words survive but the tune is long lost.
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The Stress of Her Regard / int_7a2ebcba	type	Frankenstein's Monster
The Stress of Her Regard / int_7a2ebcba	comment	Frankenstein's Monster: The inspiration for Mary Shelley's story is shown early in the book — the friendly writing contest that gave rise to Frankenstein was inspired because some of the attendees had noticed at least one of the creatures hanging around, and decided to turn the stalker incident into a joke.
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The Stress of Her Regard / int_7c897aaa	type	Psychic Link
The Stress of Her Regard / int_7c897aaa	comment	Psychic Link: Those who have been touched by the nephilim can drink each others' blood to form a temporary one of these.
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The Stress of Her Regard / int_7c9dcc1	type	THeUnfavorite
The Stress of Her Regard / int_7c9dcc1	comment	The Unfavorite: Crawford's sister-in-law Josephine, the younger twin of his wife Julia, who blames herself for her mother's Death by Childbirth. Crawford sees her Unfavorite status when he first meets her shortly before the wedding, but her family appears oblivious to this.
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The Stress of Her Regard / int_820ac3c5	type	Dysfunction Junction
The Stress of Her Regard / int_820ac3c5	comment	Dysfunction Junction: Aickman, Josephine, Keats, and Shelley and their families all spend some time living together.
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The Stress of Her Regard / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
The Stress of Her Regard / int_970c790a	comment	The biggest one would have to be the fact that Aickman came across some intimate knowledge of the Big Bad disguised as rather obscure information while in medical school.
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The Stress of Her Regard / int_9bd92eef	type	Astral Projection
The Stress of Her Regard / int_9bd92eef	comment	Astral Projection: Though Werner himself is immobile, he can make several solid projections of himself with which to experience the world.
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The Stress of Her Regard / int_9dca57fb	type	Regency England
The Stress of Her Regard / int_9dca57fb	comment	Regency England: Crawford's part of the story begins there.
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The Stress of Her Regard / int_9f63d4f1	type	Our Vampires Are Different
The Stress of Her Regard / int_9f63d4f1	comment	Our Vampires Are Different: The creatures that feed on humans are a separate species that can be thought of as animated stones. They grant extended life, but are very jealous of their... proteges... and tend to kill their families. They are vulnerable to garlic and holy water, and cannot cross oceans without a human host. Mirrors reveal their true forms. Their human victims, if killed, will arise from the grave unless precautions are taken involving garlic, silver, and sharpened stakes. They can be "divorced", but afterward one must be careful not to allow them back into one's life.
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The Stress of Her Regard / int_a0f3c6a0	type	Succubi and Incubi
The Stress of Her Regard / int_a0f3c6a0	comment	Succubi and Incubi: The Nephilim are the inspiration for legends of incubi and succubi (they can appear as male or female, as best fits the situation).
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The Stress of Her Regard / int_a2b38d3b	type	Eye Scream
The Stress of Her Regard / int_a2b38d3b	comment	Eye Scream: Josephine is manipulated by one of the nephilim to cast a spell that involves gouging out one of her own eyes. Later, she uses a glass eye that doubles as an emergency stash of garlic.
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The Stress of Her Regard / int_af921409	type	Accidental Marriage
The Stress of Her Regard / int_af921409	comment	Accidental Marriage: Crawford and the nephilim statue. Accidental on his part, anyway. Turns out the nephilim needed a host to get across the channel and arranged events to get one.
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The Stress of Her Regard / int_b2598054	type	Dhampyr
The Stress of Her Regard / int_b2598054	comment	Dhampyr: Having gestated in the womb alongside a nephilim, Shelley is sort of one of these. He hasn't inherited any cool powers, just a much-lesser form of their weaknesses (e.g. stiff muscles and discomfort in sunlight). Also, as something caught between the two different forms of life, humans are inherently disgusted by him and nephilim are fascinated by him.
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The Stress of Her Regard / int_b91eaeea	comment	Must Be Invited: The Nephilim. It's less an issue for being invited into buildings, and more an issue for being invited into their victims' lives. Also, they cheat mercilessly; Crawford putting a wedding ring on a statue-form Nephilim's finger counts as an invitation, even though he was just looking for somewhere safe to put it for a moment.
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The Stress of Her Regard / int_c6339c44	comment	Famous, Famous, Fictional: A character discussing Keats' poetic aspirations mentions Lord Byron, William Wordsworth, and William Ashbless, the fictional poet who was a character in The Anubis Gates.
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The Stress of Her Regard / int_c93a6560	comment	Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: The nephilim roleplaying Julia in Venice.
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The Stress of Her Regard / int_caf89e54	comment	Taking You with Me: The cruise of poets has this as its objective — to remove the nephilim threat to the families of those on the cruise.
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The Stress of Her Regard / int_d29a6629	comment	Death by Childbirth: The mother of Julia and Josephine. Technically she's not the only one, as The Man Behind The Curtain does eventually die off-screen from surgical complications that revoke his Mister Seahorse status.
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The Stress of Her Regard / int_d777b649	comment	No Doubt the Years Have Changed Me: In the last part of the book, Crawford does this several times with both old friends and old enemies, having been much aged by time and nephilim-related trauma.
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The Stress of Her Regard / int_d8a81f59	comment	Starts with Their Funeral: The section "Interlude: Summer 1818" begins with Shelley at a funeral, and proceeds in flashback to explain whose and the circumstances of the death.
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The Stress of Her Regard / int_df02a97f	comment	City of Canals: Venice. The protagonists' favorite city in the world, as it happens.
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The Stress of Her Regard / int_e4cf1ef0	comment	Load-Bearing Boss: In the final confrontation, it is revealed that the Big Bad is magically linked to his lair such that if he dies it will immediately collapse on top of whoever killed him. The heroes have to find a way to achieve their goal without killing him.
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The Stress of Her Regard / int_e5f9580d	comment	Riddle of the Sphinx: Given a new spin, in which "A man" is only coincidentally a viable answer. The actual correct answer is sentient life on Earth, and the "legs" referred to in the riddle are the atomic bonds in the skeletons of, respectively, Earth's primordial silicon-based vampires, its current calcium-boned humans, and its future aluminum-boned race to come (presumably robots, although only the reader can deduce that).
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The Stress of Her Regard / int_e68d9ddd	comment	Not Blood Siblings: Crawford and his sister-in-law Josephine.
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The Stress of Her Regard / int_e71ad328	comment	Plot Tailored to the Party: The book isn't a medical drama, and Aickman and Josephine's medical professions, while useful, aren't really relevant to the supernatural conflicts. Suffice it to say, they are integral in the last act, as are Byron's own skills.
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The Stress of Her Regard / int_ec7da60a	comment	Beethoven Was an Alien Spy: Several major English Romantic poets — Byron, Keats, and Shelley — draw their inspiration from nephelim "spouses". Likewise the French poet Villon. The monsters in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Polidori's The Vampyre are both based on encounters with the Nephelim.
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The Stress of Her Regard / int_f61d4485	comment	Waking Non Sequitur: Crawford meets Shelley when Shelley passes out from sunstroke and Crawford offers medical assistance. As Shelley recovers, he makes some delirious comments that reveal to Crawford that he's also encountered the nephilim.
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The Stress of Her Regard / int_f64a9cf7	comment	Earn Your Happy Ending: Crawford and Josephine, among others, and man do they ever earn it. The poets have it just as bad.
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The Stress of Her Regard / int_ff0cea73	comment	Diving Save: During the final battle, Crawford pushes Josephine out of the way of an attacking nephilim.
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