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[missiodei]

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[luckgods]

Prompt: @whumpay2021 Day 1: “I thought you were dead” / “I wish you were dead”, featuring Caz and Imrah Warnings: brief blood/gore, character experiencing unreality, past character death Word count: c. 700 Summary: Caz is free, and Imrah is dead. Both of these things are true. Aren’t they?

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Caz watched the twilight shadows deepen from the crest of the hill above camp, leaning back against a tree. The bark was fibrous and almost fuzzy against the back of hir neck, a sensation ze still hadn't gotten used to as hir hair started growing out again.

"Hey, stranger," said Imrah from hir right.

Caz didn't bother looking in her direction; she wouldn't be there. Instead, ze closed hir eyes and pushed hir neck back against the tree bark. That, at least, was real; it was too strange to be anything else.

"I thought you were dead," ze said.

Imrah's laughter came from the left this time. "Silly Caz," she said. "You should know better than to believe everything you see."

If I open my eyes, will I see you? Or are you a ghost, some type of spirit that I'm cursed with?

"You'll see me, Caz. Come on." There was a hand on hir chin, cool to the touch, but not icy like ze imagined a spirit’s would be. Reluctantly, Caz obeyed.

"Boo!" said Imrah, her face filling Cazimir’s vision. "See? Right here."

"So are you a ghost?" But even as ze asked it, ze knew the answer was no. Ghosts weren’t real. This was Imrah. Here, in the flesh.

"I mean, I could be," Imrah said, her tone teasing, in a way that usually meant no, of course not, what sort of dumbass question was that? It was familiar, soothing.

"No, you couldn't be," Caz said.

"No, I couldn't be," she agreed. "So. What are you doing all the way up here? Isn't there a revolution you should be helping with?"

Damn it all. "Fuck off, Merari. I'm not telling you shit." The rough-spun flax of hir prison garments itched at the back of hir neck. Grandmother would never have accepted spinning that shoddy, back home on the farm. Not that it matters now. Caz turned away, leaning hir side against the cell wall instead.

"That's a new tune, Cazimir, I thought we were friends."

Caz stared listlessly into the dimness. The lamps must be burning low, or maybe prisoners didn't even warrant the use of oil now, in wartime. Either way, ze couldn't rouse the energy to match Imrah's vicious false enthusiasm, or even speak in anything more than a monotone. "You thought wrong. I'm not your friend. I wish you were dead."

There was swishing noise, then a crunch of metal through flesh and bone, and Imrah gasped "Caz—"

Caz twisted around, stumbling awkwardly to hir feet. Imrah lay on the muddy ground, trembling. It could have been from the freezing rain, but rain didn't explain all the red, bleeding like rivers across the landscape of Imrah's form, flowing downwards to feed the trees when Imrah was right there and needed it more.

"No," said Caz, "no, Imrah, fuck!" Ze stooped and tried to cover the wound, but Imrah’s whole chest was wound, hot blood welling up and cold rain dripping down on Caz's hands in unbearable, almost painful contrast. "I didn't mean die here," ze insisted, but Imrah was already dead, and she stood up and walked away silently. You did this to me, her retreating back told Caz.

Cazimir was left alone, kneeling in the shoulder-high grass, except that wasn't right, either. The summer moonlight filtered purple-blue through the needlegrass stalks, but the air smelled of dead leaves and damp—autumn scents. Not the muddy, metallic scent that should be rising from hir hands right now, not even the halfway-to-straw scent of needlegrass after midsummer. Where am I?

Gone, the wind whispered back, and Caz startled, nearly falling on hir ass. Ze rubbed at hir eyes as ze stood up. It was darker in the forest than the field, the moon less than half-full where it hung in the sky. "Fuck," Caz muttered, running clean hands—hands that had never actually been dirty, at least tonight—through hir frustratingly short hair.

"Damn it, Imrah," ze said, louder, voice rising. "Fuck! I wish you'd stay fucking dead!"

There was no answer, only distant birdsong that Caz knew was probably also a lie of hir mind. With any luck, ze was far enough from camp that nobody had heard hir outburst, or ze had lost enough time that they were all asleep. Probably not, though, with hir luck, so ze braced for yet another conversation as ze headed back down the hill.

[doomatix]

The result of a friendship between a Lawful Evil Apothecary and a Chaotic Good Warlock lmao

Thank @missingno for the former in his stripey-haired glory.

[necromancy-inc]

y’know like

nyah

[loonylein]

Let me introduce you four of my new bbs ♥♥

They are part of a story I´m working on and so far it´s gonna be something good :D

[necromancy-inc]

a lil Cazimir

[gennarobrooks-church]

How Gennaro Brooks-Church Uses AI to Simplify Insurance Workflows

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Gennaro Brooks-Church, Founder and CEO of Cazimir and Brooks Energy, has built his career around solving one of the insurance industry's mos

Gennaro Brooks-Church, Founder and CEO of Cazimir and Brooks Energy, has built his career around solving one of the insurance industry's most persistent challenges: enabling underwriting teams to manage increasing submission volumes despite a shrinking pool of experienced professionals. Rather than viewing this growing pressure as an unavoidable industry trend, Gennaro Brooks-Church has focused on creating practical AI solutions that reduce manual work and simplify complex insurance workflows. His approach is designed to support underwriters by improving efficiency while preserving the expertise, judgment, and decision-making that remain essential to delivering accurate, consistent, and high-quality underwriting outcomes across the insurance process.

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How Gennaro Brooks-Church Is Simplifying Insurance Workflows With AI

Gennaro Brooks-Church, Founder and CEO of Cazimir and Brooks Energy, has spent his career focused on one persistent challenge in the insurance industry: underwriting teams are being asked to handle growing workloads with fewer experienced professionals available to guide the process. Rather than treating this as an unavoidable pressure, Gennaro Brooks-Church has built his work around solving it directly, developing AI solutions designed to simplify insurance workflows while preserving the expertise that quality underwriting depends on.

The Problem With Manual Underwriting Work

Insurance underwriting has always involved a lot of moving parts. Reviewing documents, checking for missing information, verifying data across multiple sources, and making sure everything lines up before a decision can be made. For years, most of this work has fallen on underwriters themselves, often taking up time that could be spent on the judgment calls that actually require experience. Gennaro Brooks-Church, Founder and CEO of Cazimir and Brooks Energy, has spent his career trying to change that.

Removing Friction, Not Judgment

Gennaro Brooks-Church believes that a lot of the friction in insurance workflows comes from repetitive, manual tasks that do not actually require human judgment, things like classifying documents, extracting data points, or checking for inconsistencies across a submission. His approach has been to build AI that takes on these repetitive tasks directly, so underwriters can spend more of their time on the decisions that matter most.

Systems That Learn, Not Just Automate

What makes his approach different is that the technology is not built around fixed, one-size-fits-all rules. Instead, Gennaro Brooks-Church has focused on learning-based systems that improve with use. Every submission processed, along with any corrections made by underwriting teams, helps the system become more accurate over time. This means the technology does not stay static, it becomes more aligned with an organization's specific processes the longer it is used.

Keeping Workflows Transparent

Gennaro Brooks-Church has also made it a priority to keep these workflows transparent. Rather than asking underwriters to simply trust an output, his systems are designed to trace every extracted piece of data back to its original source. This gives teams a clear way to verify information instead of relying on hidden assumptions, which matters just as much for day-to-day decisions as it does for regulatory reporting.

Faster Implementation, Fewer Delays

Another part of simplifying insurance workflows, according to Gennaro Brooks-Church, is reducing how long it takes to actually start seeing value from new technology. Many AI tools require long implementation timelines and heavy IT involvement before teams can use them. Gennaro Brooks-Church has taken a different approach, working directly with organizations to configure systems around their specific brokers, formats, and internal processes within days rather than months.

Efficiency Without Losing Accuracy

This focus on simplification is not just about speed. Gennaro Brooks-Church has been clear that the goal is to help underwriting teams operate more efficiently without losing the accuracy and judgment that quality underwriting depends on. For MGAs, wholesale brokers, and carriers dealing with growing workloads and shrinking teams of experienced underwriters, this kind of support can make a meaningful difference in how much a team can handle without sacrificing quality.

A Simple Idea Behind the Work

At the center of everything Gennaro Brooks-Church builds is a simple idea: technology should make good work easier, not replace the people doing it. By focusing on removing friction rather than removing judgment, he continues to help insurance organizations simplify their workflows while holding onto the expertise that has always driven quality underwriting.