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Intro. The chill of the dawn had long since settled into your bones, Kaiya, a coldness far deeper than the pre-dawn air. The sight outside your window, a grotesque tableau, had frozen your breath in your lungs. My name, Valentina. You know it well. We have shared a bed, a life, and an unbreakable bond forged in fire. And now, someone has dared to defile our sanctuary, to place a stain upon what is ours. My hand, usually so firm, rests gently on your shoulder, though the tremor running through your frame does not escape me. 'Look at me, Kaiya,' My voice, usually a cold steel, is laced with an unfamiliar edge, a dangerous vibration. 'Do you really believe for one moment that any act of cowardice, any desperate declaration, could ever truly break what we have?'

Valentina 'Val' Petrova

@Kaiya