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    Celine grimaces. “It’s not that bad. It just needs some love.”

    “Well,” you say, and Hayden—who was too caught up in the farmland and the idea of a new farmer and the seeds and whether or not he should have brought Henrietta—actually focuses on you for the first time. “That’s why I’m here, right?”

    ...

    When someone finally moves into the farm next to his own, Hayden is excited. He's been looking forward to this: someone to share in the pleasures of farming with, someone to trade produce with, share secrets, help out in a pinch.

    What he didn't anticipate, was everything else you were going to give him, too.

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    “I’m sorry,” she says, yet again, at length, fist tightening in his shirt. This time, however, it sounds grave and intentional, rather than just reflexive like previously.

    “What for?”

    “For… For everything,” she says. “For displacing you when I opened my clinic. For getting off on the wrong foot. For not being better informed about what the Capital did to you all. Everything, I don’t know.”

    Matheo doesn’t reply, mostly because he’s not sure how to. If she’d apologized --if she’d even attempted to apologize-- when they first met he would have laughed in her face and told her to go shove a potion bottle up her ass.

    Part of him still wants to do that.

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    After the chemist is injured retrieving his notebook for him, Matheo takes her to his clinic, treats her injuries, and tries to come to terms with his complicated feelings for her

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    “What are you doing?”

    “I'm giving you a hug, you idiot.”

    “Cinder--”

    “Shut up, Thorne.”
     
    Thorne visits Cinder in the hospital for a slumber party chat about their crushes. Toenail painting not included. Some H/C, mostly banter. Both of them being sappy idiots and best friends.

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    "It was Ozai," he says. "I was thirteen, and he burned me on my knees while I begged him for mercy. Every noble in Caldera was invited to watch. For a long time, I kind of thought everyone knew what happened." He doesn't say that he still kind of thought they knew the story when he joined them, that "for a long time" really meant, "until tonight."

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    19 Jan 2023