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[doneisdone]

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crystal.

[byblow]

You realize this makes you a deserter.

[ Out of nowhere, weeks after she left.

It means he misses her. ]

[doneisdone]

[It surprises her. Her voice is a bit scratchy when she answers:]

Alistair?

[byblow]

No, [ Alistair says, drawling, ] his secret twin, Balistair.

Are you all right?

[doneisdone]

[A pause. She can't answer that right away, because she isn't sure she knows the answer.]

I will be.
And you?

[byblow]

Wasting away to nothing and wearing the same underclothes for the sixth day in a row.

[ Neither of those things are true. He's fine. He's an adult. ]

[doneisdone]

[SIGH]

You will have to manage a while longer.