5th transformation . spam & open video

[permutates]

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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. ]

Comments

[breathoflight]

Not so much in the way, but it is an easy thing for others to grab.

[permutates]

You can get it out of the way. I can show you how.

[ She presents a hand mirror. ]

[breathoflight]

[Snow inspects herself with a smile.]

It would certainly be preferable to cutting it off.

[permutates]

Then you can look like a queen and pick up a sword now and then.

[breathoflight]

[Snow laughs lightly.]

I will have to find some way to repay you.

[permutates]

You don't have to. I could use some friends.

The first real friend I had - who was a girl - I only met her a few months ago.

[breathoflight]

Did you spend more time making friends with boys then?

[permutates]

I only had one friend. Charles.

[breathoflight]

I only had one friend for a few years while I was growing up as well. His name is William.

[permutates]

I'm glad you had someone.

It makes a difference.

[breathoflight]

[Snow nods.]

I thought of him many times over the years.

[permutates]

He wasn't there for you?

[breathoflight]

Not exactly. [Snow shakes her head a little.] His father tried to help me escape from the castle the night Ravenna seized it, but we were separated.

[permutates]

That's horrible. I'm sorry.

[breathoflight]

[Snow shakes her head.]

It was better than he escaped. And it is not as though he gave up on me or the hope that I was still alive.

[permutates]

But it's hard that you had to be without him.

Did you see him again?

[breathoflight]

Yes, we fought alongside one another.

[permutates]

Good. That sounds really nice.

[breathoflight]

[Elena nods a little.]

He is a good man and he is a dear friend despite the time we spent apart.