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Cody Brian Jennings
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October 30, 1987 AD
A Knife’s Edge of Normal
As breakfast unfolds in the Jennings household, Cody scrambles to hold himself together while the family moves around him in its usual rhythm. But when Jeremiah finally appears — down the stairs, fresh-faced, as if he'd been there all night — the relief is tangled with something darker. And Janice, quiet at the end of the table, is adding pieces to a puzzle no one else knows exists.
October 30, 1987 AD
Almost Caught
The morning after changes everything — and nothing. Cody wakes late with the Portal Key still in his hand, a cut on his foot he can't explain, and no way of knowing whether Jeremiah kept his promise and came back. The house is already moving around him. And the person most likely to notice something's wrong is the one who already noticed it last night.
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July 25, 2018 AD
Candlelight for Joel
Four people gather in candlelight to mourn a boy they never knew. Beatrix arrives wound tight from the gala, still in her cursed black dress. Gladys brings scented candles and questions. Luke wakes to uninvited company. Cody arrives early with whiskey and warnings. In the flicker of flames, they toast Joel—Jamie's son, nineteen, dead under tragic circumstances. But beneath the grief, secrets simmer. And Cody's final words linger: "Death is but a mere process."
October 29, 1987 AD
Cold Tea and Thin Walls
With Jeremiah upstairs and the house holding its breath, the Jennings family does what families do when the guest is out of earshot — they turn on each other. What follows is a kitchen-table reckoning that cuts closer to bone than anyone expected, and leaves Cody wondering whether the person his family doesn't trust might not be Jeremiah at all.
July 24, 2018 AD
Don’t Follow, Kitty
Left alone in Gladys’s house after orchestrating her next move, Cody confronts the quiet consequences of his manipulation. When a near accident at the Portal forces him to face how far he’s slipped between duty and desperation, Cody must reckon with the truth he’s been avoiding: sometimes, the ones you’re trying to protect are the ones you’re already pulling under.
October 29, 1987 AD
First Step into Clivilius
With the Portal Key in his hand and his family sleeping down the hall, Cody opens a door to another world — his world, though he doesn't know it yet. What waits on the other side isn't wonder. It's darkness, silence, and the bone-deep cold of a place that has never known a living thing. And the voice that greets him by name.
October 30, 1987 AD
First Steps, Frostbitten
With the farm empty and the trough done, Cody does what any nineteen-year-old with a key to another world would do. This time he's got boots on and daylight waiting on the other side. But Clivilius doesn't grade on effort — and the cave that looked like an adventure from the entrance has its own way of teaching respect. What the daylight reveals beyond it is vaster, emptier, and more his than anything he's ever stood on.
Frozen Shores
A restless farmhand from Gawler, South Australia, transformed by a chance encounter in a country pub. At nineteen, Cody Jennings crossed through a Portal into another world and never truly returned. What followed was a life split between dimensions—founding the frozen settlement of Belkeep, raising twin children without their mother, and carrying secrets that isolated him from everyone he loved. His archive preserves the consciousness of a man who gambled everything on an audacious plan he would never see fulfilled.
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July 25, 2018 AD
Someone Else Knows
Joel Gibbons lies dead in a delivery truck outside Luke's Berriedale home. Gladys and Beatrix Cramer are covered in blood, clutching a manifest and unravelling explanations. Then a man appears in the driveway—someone who knows Luke's name without introduction, who examines the body with unsettling calm, who says he's been "waiting." Four people stand around Joel's corpse. Someone knows what happened. Someone knows too much. Someone isn't telling the truth.
July 24, 2018 AD
The Art of Almost Honesty
In suburban Claremont, Cody plays a dangerous game of persuasion as he manoeuvres Gladys toward a choice that could change both their lives — and the balance between worlds. But as his manipulation blurs with genuine affection, Cody discovers that even the smallest lies can start avalanches neither side is ready to survive.
October 30, 1987 AD
The Breath the House Took
Cody steps back through the portal and finds himself in Kenneth's room — whole, alive, and changed in ways he can't yet name. But the night has one more revelation left, and it rewrites everything Cody thought he understood about why Jeremiah came to Gawler in the first place.
October 29, 1987 AD
The Edge of the Map
As the Kingsford Smith empties and the evening narrows to two, Cody finds himself drawn deeper into conversation with a stranger who asks questions nobody else thinks to ask. What begins as pub talk becomes something harder to walk away from — and when the moment comes to say goodnight, Cody makes a choice he can't fully explain, even to himself.
October 29, 1987 AD
The Hinge That Didn't Creak
Alone in the dark with his family's doubts still ringing in his ears, Cody tries to do the sensible thing and call it a night. But the house he's known his whole life won't let him rest — something is wrong upstairs, something that has no name and no explanation. And the closer he gets to it, the less certain he becomes that the stranger in Kenneth's room is what he thought he was.
October 29, 1987 AD
The Itch You Can't Name
After a long day on the farm, Cody heads to the Kingsford Smith Pub looking for nothing more than a cold beer and familiar faces. But when a group of strangers rolls in and the evening takes an unexpected turn, one of them — a young bloke with sharp eyes and the right questions — starts pulling at threads Cody didn't know were loose.
July 23, 2018 AD
The Man Who Asked Twice
On a quiet jetty in Glenelg, Cody Jennings reunites with his long-lost mentor Jeremiah, whose sudden return shatters three years of silence and peace. As news of Port Stower’s destruction ripples through both worlds, Cody is thrust back into impossible decisions — torn between loyalty to Clivilius, his dwindling settlement, and a revelation that could rewrite everything the Guardians believe.
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July 24, 2018 AD
The Persuasion
She thinks she's confiding in her lover. He knows he's executing a mission. When Gladys returns from Luke's house with suspicions and a bizarre shopping list, Cody is waiting on her verandah with wine and calculated comfort. Two perspectives on the same conversation reveal how easily affection becomes manipulation when one person knows far more than the other—and how the kindest advice can serve the cruelest purposes.
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July 24, 2018 AD
The Portal in Her Kitchen
Alone in Gladys's house after sending her to help Luke, Cody opens a Portal home—right through her fridge. When Snowflake and Chloe dart towards the swirling colours, disaster looms. In that split second of panic, a darker thought surfaces: if one of her beloved cats fell through, she'd have no choice but to follow. Standing between worlds, Cody confronts exactly how desperate he's become—and how thin the line between protection and manipulation really is.
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October 29, 1987 AD
The Wind Had Changed
Some nights you walk into familiar places seeking nothing more than cold beer and quiet, only to discover the air's shifted whilst you weren't paying attention. Young Cody finds the Kingsford Smith Pub exactly as it's always been—worn timber, aviation memorabilia, locals playing chess—except for the stranger at the bar whose eyes carry the same restlessness that's been building in Cody's chest. Recognition arrives before introduction.
October 29, 1987 AD
Things You Can't Unsee
The door opens, and everything Cody thought he knew falls apart. The stranger he defended to his family is more than a stranger — and the truth he carries is bigger than anything a farmhouse in Gawler was ever built to hold. What follows isn't wonder. It's a reckoning.
October 29, 1987 AD
Where the Fire Always Burns
Cody brings a stranger home to the Jennings farm expecting his family's natural hospitality to smooth the way. What he gets instead is something more complicated — a household that welcomes with one hand and watches with the other, and a growing awareness that he may have invited more than he bargained for into the heart of everything he loves.
October 30, 1987 AD
Where The Pipe Cracked
Out at the trough line with tools in hand, Cody finally has Jeremiah on his ground — doing real work, following real instructions, in a world that runs on sweat and galvanised pipe. But the man beside him is breaking apart in ways that have nothing to do with the farm. When the truth comes out — Strechna, Zenobias, a war that spans two worlds — Cody is left standing alone with a mended pipe, a family to deceive, and a task that will take him back to the place he's been trying not to think about since dawn.
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