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    She has to go back over a thousand years to reach even a fuzzy and barely-recalled memory of gentleness.

    Her mother’s hands twisting and untangling her hair, looping and braiding it into some elaborate Asgardian style. Sylvie remembers bristling at the entire process — it took so long and was all so unnecessary.

    She can never quite figure out why that is the one memory that stuck. Love and touch, but barely tolerated.

    It’s fitting, she thinks.

    (Accepting gentleness is not something that comes easily to Sylvie, but she’s starting to figure it out.)

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