Room 530, Friday Evening

[tasenburn]

Elle was... conflicted, she supposed was a good way to put it. It felt strange to be packing up her side of the room, but it didn't feel like the ending she'd expected it to feel like. Maybe that was because she wasn't leaving, just moving into town. Or maybe it was because her life had changed, because she'd lost her place in the new life she'd

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[nothornlessrose]

Cassidy had flown up the stairs and barely stopped long enough to knock as a warning before Elle's door opened and she was rushing in.

Sorry, Elle, she would apologize for the breach of manners later.

"You're leaving?!" Cassidy wailed, distress evident in her voice and tears in her eyes. "I know that I failed as your Queen, but I thought we were sisters and you would at least tell me you had decided to leave and say goodbye."

[tasenburn]

"I thought you didn't want to talk to me anymore after what I did to you," Elle said quietly, her attention absolutely riveted on the box in front of her. "I mean, I haven't seen you since the other me tortured the other you, so... I kinda put two and two together."

Yes, but you'd come up with the wrong number entirely, Elle.

[nothornlessrose]

"That wasn't you, Elle! That wasn't the Elle who is my sister."

Cassidy was finding the window rather fascinating. "I wasn't avoiding you. I have been hiding from the fact that I let you down. I promised that I would always be there to help you through the bad, but in that world, I broke. I broke and I went insane. I wasn't the Queen I was supposed to be or the Queen you said you would serve. I've been hiding because I don't know how to apologize for not being able to hold on."

Someone was also getting the wrong numbers and also taking entirely too much upon herself.

"I was hiding from the possibility of losing you, here, because you know now how weak I am."

[tasenburn]

"You are not weak," Elle said, her voice a protective snarl. "You are one of the strongest people I know, Cassidy, and don't you ever forget that. In that world, if anything... I was the weak one. I was the one who fell under her sway and enjoyed hurting people. That is breaking, not what you did. What you did was survival."