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Butterflies around the flame by powerofadyingsun
Fandoms: Wiedźmin | The Witcher - All Media Types
05 Feb 2023
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After it all, Ciri was meant to be free. She’d escaped the plans others had forced upon her, no longer an unwilling character in a story written by someone else.
It should have meant that she could be whomever she wanted, do whatever she wanted.
Instead, life was a snarled mess of paranoia and distrust, forcing her to always be on the move.
Others seemed able to put the past behind them, but for her, the past was yet another cage, trapping her in her head.
It felt like a gaping wound inside her, raw, too big to scar. She tried to ignore it, to move on, to have a life-but while the pain subsided over the years, the numbness that replaced it was worse.