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Mallaidh has always liked Rose from the very beginning. They day they met on the beach, she hadn’t been able to get over how pretty she’d been and they shared the night together, if only so she can bring her back the next day. Ever since the beginning, their relationship had become taboo because of Blixen and how weird she got about it and here she sits, on the verge of having announced she loves her, and she can’t tell if it’s better or worse Rose hadn’t heard at all. Had she even told Blixen that? She closes her eyes, trying to remember.
 
Her jaw tightens as Rose pulls away, somehow using her for support too but she understands the movement she slowly she lowers back to the ground. Between reuniting with her brother and sorting through new, uncharted feelings, Mallaidh struggles with reserving any energy left to get back home. Rose working on the wounds and investigating the others are a welcome distraction, deciding that physical pain is better in that moment for head-hurting emotions.
 
“I want to tell you everything,” she says, quietly, and stares at the ground between them. Each piece of information sits on the piece of her tongue where only some had sat when she’d been with Blixen, but she’s always connected better with Rose, hasn’t she?