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(TW mentions of suicide) It’s only once she’s slid both of her heels off that Solace realizes there’s someone else on the roof. The girl’s blonde, almost an entire head shorter than her. Perhaps she’s enjoying the view from the roof, with how she’s looking over the railing. Maybe she’s afraid of heights, and that’s why she’s shaking. It’s impolite to make assumptions, Solace has been told. But she’s not guessing. It’s almost as if looking in a mirror. The girl in front of her is about to jump. Solace doesn’t realize how loudly she’s scoffed until the blonde turns around, startled and frantic. Her pupils are small, her chest rises and falls quickly, and Solace briefly thinks to herself she can just turn around. She does not care about this girl or her fate. But she’s annoyed. And if she can’t have her way, this girl certainly can’t either. “What are you doing here?” Is an innocent enough question, one that shows very little of her hand. “... Have you ever been in love?” The

When did it become clear that they lost? It was when Birdie was being called to less tactical meetings, when Julian’s experiments were no longer ‘interesting’ enough for the beasts to observe. Lillian got invited to the pits less and less, and Null got fewer affectionate pets as time went on. Lemuria and her no longer had to provide as much food, it seemed like more and more mercenaries were relocating for now, yet despite that Avery’s scouting had only shown that the factions were advancing, and the fullness of Camillia’s makeshift medical ward only proved that further. She saw Istryn and Spirit conversing with a strange plusle around the time things started to go south. She saw the plusle meet with Ark in the greenhouse, sat down at a table talking over drinks and snacks (wait they can eat normal food- do they just eat live people to freak others out?) Regardless, she wasn’t sure what was happening, but it did not ease her anxiety. Signs were pointing for things to go