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Mallaidh winces as Rose examines the wounds, cleaning away what’s crusted over the three punctures in the few hours since the fight. Her mind hasn’t stopped racing a thousand miles a minute, taking the last of her energy. The wounds she bears are hardly enough to feel so knocked out but she still struggles for a deep breath and her world came crashing down for a while, sorting through what pieces she’s left with.
 
“I don’t know,” she says, shrugging, denying the obvious reason for avoiding her. “Because I left you, too,” she tells her and closes her eyes, hiding the tears that started to well behind her lids. She can hardly face one problem at a time, let alone one she’d been running from for a while now.