[Promptly. This is why she cares, this is the foundation of whatever there is between them. You can't hold someone's life in your hands and then be indifferent to them - or at least Mira can't.
And wardening is a little like that, she thinks, maybe, poking at it like a puzzle, like a password she's trying to guess, like the way a mechanism fits together.]
And...I'm yours? Your inmate.
[Even in her uncertain voice, it does not just mean responsibility. It is personal, in a way she only has one word for, which is the one she used.]
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[Promptly. This is why she cares, this is the foundation of whatever there is between them. You can't hold someone's life in your hands and then be indifferent to them - or at least Mira can't.
And wardening is a little like that, she thinks, maybe, poking at it like a puzzle, like a password she's trying to guess, like the way a mechanism fits together.]
And...I'm yours? Your inmate.
[Even in her uncertain voice, it does not just mean responsibility. It is personal, in a way she only has one word for, which is the one she used.]