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“I think I'm in love with Yona.” The words rang through her ears as her heart skipped a beat- or three. She froze to the spot just around the tent from where the all too familiar voice had spoken, most likely sitting next to the fire of their camp. “I think I'm in love with Yona,” the words repeated over and over in her head, forcing the breath out of her lungs. “I think I'm in love with Yona. In love with Yona. In love. With Yona.”
She had only been gone for twenty minutes or so, stepped away to take a quick bath in a nearby stream, and had assumed that by the time she came back most everyone would already be bunking down for the night. And she had been mostly right, it seemed, as the camp was quiet, save for the voice that had just spoken the unbelievable words- words Yona herself was surely never meant to hear.
“...oh?” A second voice questioned, spooking the redhead out of her temporary daze. Of course there would be another person with him; why else would he be saying something like that out loud? He was telling someone else he trusted, telling someone else in confidence and, oh, Gods, Yona was not meant to be here. She should just-
“Yeah,” the first responded softly, the sadness in his voice squeezing Yona's heart in a vice “Yeah. I'm pretty sure I am.”
“Hmmm, well, I can't say I blame you,” the second said and Yona could hear shifting from them, as if they were making to stand, “I'm pretty sure I am, too.”