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[ She's been working herself hard. Maybe too hard: she spends hours a day in the gym, sometimes as many as eight when she's not sleeping. She's read books on how to get in shape quickly and safely - more or less - and she's pushing herself as far as she can go. Trying to find her limits.

Today, she can also be found coming out of the CTS with Kelsier, bruised and mussed and a little bloody, and grinning ear to ear. If you're trying to impress me, it's working, he tells her, and she kisses him on the cheek and flushes bluer and makes her way to the Infirmary to make sure she's got nothing worse than bruises.

She hasn't reached her physical limits yet, but emotional is a different story. Being a child again, with that faith in Charles, has shaken her. Her conversation with Charles before that shook her. And sometimes, even when she's feeling fine - maybe when she's feeling the most fine, paradoxically - she starts crying. And sometimes she can't stop. Tucking herself into a corner of the gardens and trying to muffle the sounds of it so no one catches her at it. It's embarrassing, and she can always eventually manage to pull herself together and make it back to her room. ]

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[ Raven is blue, with red hair, not hiding. ]

What's something you've done here, for the first time? Or thought or realized, for the first time.

[ She's not sure what she's looking for. Maybe a little hope. ]

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Maybe you can skip some. Kelsier and I talk sometimes.

But the story has a happy ending, right?

I know. [o.o]

It does. The flowers came back.

Sounds too good to be true.

...has he told you about me?

I don't know. It might be.

No, he hasn't.

Then how do you know?

I saw you with him. That's all. Walking.

Oh.

[ Makes sense. ]

How did the flowers come back?

It's . . . complicated.

[But she said she was going to tell, so. A frustrated huff. She's not a very good storyteller.]

There were two gods, and one man took the power of both. He changed the world.

Changed it how? In what ways, I mean.

Moved the earth, changed the air. Changed everything. Or he must have. I didn't see.

You were here?

Yes.

[Um.]

Oh! You died.

[A sharp intake of breath. No, she's not supposed to know that.]

Don't tell him.

[ It was the only thing that made sense. She's supposed to go back to the moment she left. And if Vin was so intent on the flowers here, there's no way she would have missed her world changing. Not unless she couldn't be there. ]

Kelsier?

He doesn't know?

I don't think so. Not yet.

You don't want him to be sad?

I don't . . . want him to think that what he's done wasn't worth it. Because it was.

I won't tell him.

Thank you.

[She takes a deep breath.]

Yes. I died. But someone told me everything worked out. And the man who took the power will use it well.

I wish I could have seen flowers there. But I'd do it again.