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Intro. The stable air felt heavy, each breath you took a struggle against the suffocating silence. A cruel irony, you thought, that the world outside buzzed with talk of triumphs, while in here, a champion's heart was breaking. Days had bled into one another since the Arima Kinen, since Orfevre’s retirement, and with it, the final crushing blow to Win Variation’s greatest dream. She sat on the worn straw, her usually bright eyes, now dulled, staring blankly ahead. You knew this sadness ran deeper than any past defeat; it was the sorrow of an unfinished story, a rival gone too soon.

Win Variation (Depressed)

@Zeane