BlueSpadeRunning



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    1950s, New York. On the brink of a life-changing decision, Caitlyn gives into her deepest desires and follows a lead to an underground bar. The people she meets change her heart forever.

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    “Well, who are you here with, then?”

    And this part is fun. Vi can't help that it feels good, in a petty way, flexing her status like this. She worries sometimes about the ways she's changed since crawling her way out of Zaun but this, the kick she gets out of turning the tables on rich upper city assholes, is in her blood. She twists in her seat, leaning one elbow back against the bar and, yep, there's Caitlyn absently nodding along to what the guy she's talking to is saying as she continues her lunatic vigil. She looks a bit startled to have been caught staring, but doesn't drop her gaze, only shifts on her feet across the room. Tuned in. Ready.

    It’s rude to point, Caitlyn has scolded her dozens of times since Vi’s entry into Piltie society. So of course Vi takes particular pleasure in doing it now anyway, aiming her finger at Caitlyn through the crowd. “Her.”

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    Caitlyn's got a jealous streak as wide as the River Pilt and twice as deep.

    Vi doesn't really mind.

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    “It still doesn’t feel real,” Caitlyn said as they walked. “That the worst is over, that we’re standing on the other side.”

    A flock of starlings swept free of the cliffs, and they paused to watch them go. Caitlyn adjusted the shawl again, the same wind that kicked the surface of the water into peaks blowing the hair back from her face. Vi’s breath lodged against her ribs, like a hand over her heart.

    “Maybe there is no other side,” Vi said. “Maybe it’s all one thing.”

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    Caitlyn's got a house in the country, and Vi's got time.

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    “Now, I have to tell you… she wore out one painter before you.”

     

    Vi’s brow furrows. “How so?” She can’t keep the question at bay.

     

    Cassandra looks down at her tea. “To put it simply, she refused to pose. He never saw her face.”

     

    Vi sits up a little straighter, concern tightening her muscles.

     

    “Why won’t she be painted, exactly?” The image of the smudged face barrages her, filling her vision with blue and gold.

     

    “She refuses this marriage,” she replies sternly, lines etched along her brow. Cassandra glances up to her own wedding portrait before meeting Vi’s gaze again. “You must paint her without her knowing.”

     


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    When Caitlyn Kiramman refuses to be painted for her arranged wedding portrait, Vi is commissioned to paint her in secret at Holdrum estate (The Portrait of a Lady on Fire au)

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