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    “I see the way you look at yourself, Amalda.” Her voice is softer now. “You don’t deserve it.” Her hands splay across the patchwork quilt they share, finally uncurling, and when she looks up at Amalda it sends a hot rush down her throat, wine to the desiccated. “You don’t deserve to carry this.”

    Amalda laughs, humorless. “No one does.” Karin, Misha, her old friends— none of them came out of it unbroken.

    “No,” Misha agrees quietly, her rueful smile heavy with the same grief in her voice. “But we will, regardless. Together.”

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    or: war leaves wounds, and love heals them.

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