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You've always been the hunger at the heart of me, Red - my teeth, my claws, my poisoned apple.

I couldn't know, then - I couldn't, and nor could you - how thoroughly you were already inside me, shielding me from the future.

"Some things matter more than winning."

She looks up, stares, and, broken-throated, laughs.
And then Commandant's legions fall upon her like the night.

The gaze of the girl who would be Blue fixes on her, soft with dreams, trusting. She tastes what she is offered, knows the pain in it, and swallows.

Sometimes you have to hold a person, though they'll mistake embrace for strangulation.

I will write myself into the world, so you will see me throughout all braids and mourn?

Coward to continue, and coward to seek an end.

No death sticks but the one that matters.

Perhaps survival is its own form of torture.