Kaine. He’d come back and found her gone. She’d told him she’d be waiting, and she wasn’t there. The ring burned again and again and again. He was looking for her. He’d come for her. He always did. But she could not think about it. She had to forget. If she remembered and was interrogated, Kaine could not be found. She couldn’t think about him. Trapped, frozen, without use of her hands, she could only draw her resonance inwards. She was used to pushing it out for combat. Now it was like a net she closed around her own mind. She could feel the faint texture in her mind of her manipulations,
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