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    “About that,” Vi says. “How’d you end up here? What did a girl like you do to get tossed into this two-star shithole?”

    “Really? That’s how you ask? No subtlety in it?”

    “Uh, yeah? I saved you from getting shanked in the shower, so fair’s fair. What’s your deal, topside?”

    “Caitlyn,” she says. That isn’t right. That wasn’t the answer Vi was after. Names are easily given away but so seldomly remembered in Stillwater, but it echoes in Vi’s head. She almost doesn’t hear the actual answer. “And though I have no doubt a thousand people have given this answer before, I did nothing. I was doing my job, and then I was here. No trial. No sentencing. No crime to speak of.”

     

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    Half a decade into Vi's stay in Stillwater, a topsider turns up, raving about being a Councillor's daughter.

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    Caitlyn Kiramman, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-six years in the world with only the Hund sisters to distress or vex her. Or, wait—It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single Kiramman in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of the newly hired groundskeeper.

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    Regency-adjacent AU: after the loss of both her father and the family groundskeeper, Caitlyn is summoned to her home estate from the questionable pleasures of town. Rumours abound of the unsavoury sort taken on at the Kiramman estate, and Caitlyn finds herself face-to-face with a woman she has not seen that last decade.

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    Laying in bed with Vi, Caitlyn wonders how they've survived so much and gotten so far.

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    19 Oct 2023

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    Caitlyn and Vi meet as kids and develop a fast friendship. As they grow older, feelings change and they both have to reckon with what that means for them and their friendship.

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    Between bites of dinner at the scarred kitchen table that was once both of theirs, Vi had told Caitlyn there was no sign anywhere of her lost sister anymore, not even the vague tales of explosions and burnt-out buildings that had once kept Vi’s search alive.

    While Caitlyn would never allow herself to hope for someone else’s death – and certainly not Vi’s sister, who has become Caitlyn's family too – she does dare to wish that maybe Vi would stay a while longer. Just this once.

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    OR once a year for the last four years, Vi has come home from her search for her sister to a waiting Caitlyn. The absence and the distance has taken its toll, but some memories will always remain...as will some longings.

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    22 Sep 2022