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In the end she is a little bit of a coward. She can rationalize it all she wants, can make the excuses about safety, about not wanting to disrupt the fragile peace, about removing unneeded components from the equation.
In the end she is a coward so she lets Ekko show Vi while she buries her nose into Council-related work, into papers and foundational documents for the Wardens.
In the end she sits at her desk as the sun sets and waits to see if Vi will return.
Caitlyn buys Vi something.
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19 Dec 2025
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where the heart is
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Caitlyn buys Vi something.
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She is well aware that she is being difficult.
It would not be the first time someone has described her as that in more polite words, nor, Caitlyn suspects, will it be the last time someone does so. She is not trying to be difficult on purpose—there is rather no point in that and she has no desire to add to the stresses that those around her are already suffering. If anything, she'd much rather they cease this ridiculous babying and let her do things that will help.
She's healing, yes, but she's not incapacitated. She's wounded, yes, but she's not immobile. She has two good hands, half of a good leg, a good eye, and a brain that is gnawing desperately at the bars of its enclosure, rattling against the inside of her skull. She can't sit still, she finds it so difficult to hold her tongue and stars above, she's trying.
She really is.
Caitlyn shoots again.
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19 Dec 2025
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as birdsong
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Caitlyn shoots again.
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She found it tucked into a back corner of a drawer of Mother’s desk. She hadn’t meant to look. She’d been doing a very good job of not looking. Mother had always been exceedingly prompt with dealing with everything she needed to and Caitlyn had long since cleared Mother’s for-later pile. She hadn’t needed to look.
But she’d wondered where Mother’s favorite pen had gone and although she knew it wouldn’t be in that drawer, she opened it anyway. Opened it, put her hand in it, come away with the feel of a soft, textured paper, the kind that Mother would have never used. Pulled it out and stared down at the shine of a copper foil and red print set in cream.
Caitlyn has never burned joss paper in her life.
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Bookmarked by Arcane_Bookmarks (SlipperyJimDiGriz)
19 Dec 2025
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the soft of ash
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Caitlyn has never burned joss paper in her life.
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"Mother," says Caitlyn. "I hardly think this to be a good idea."
"You'll have to forgive me for not taking your opinion into account, officer." Mother's head simply tilts up. "This is a matter not just of national pride, but national security. Furthermore, you misunderstand. This is not a discussion, nor is it a negotiation. It is an order from your Commander-in-Chief. You have been notified and you will serve."
Caitlyn scowls.
Mother holds her gaze with her own.
"Gold, officer," says Commander Kiramman. "Ionia demands no less before her enemies."
Caitlyn isn't supposed to be at the Olympics. And she's certainly not supposed to be flirting.
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headshot
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Caitlyn isn't supposed to be at the Olympics. And she's certainly not supposed to be flirting.
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“Can we keep him?”
Cassandra looks at the creature currently running around in circles in the corner of Caitlyn’s room.
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19 Dec 2025
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to let go
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“Can we keep him?”
Cassandra looks at the creature currently running around in circles in the corner of Caitlyn’s room.