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Ashe    Ashe was fairly certain she'd fall asleep on the spot the moment she was sat in that chair. It was her arm that kept her from settling back, a thick groan slipping through her teeth when she tried. She looked up at Ronin with her fingernails digging into the chair, but he still brought a weak smile forward as he brushed back her hair.    The smile vanished at Kalt's name, her chest tightening painfully. She dropped her eyes, and a shaking hand tipped back the wine glass Remi handed her. She focused on the flavor bursting in her mouth instead of the aching emptiness in her, slowing her racing heart and bringing a bloom of color to her cheeks.    Her trembling lips pressed together, and it was a long moment before she looked up. She forced a crooked smile. "Shut up," she said. "Both of you. I didn't exactly make it hard to believe that I'd do that, did I?"    Ashe took a slow breath and stared down into her wine. "I don't know where Kalt is. I don't know where Theea--" Her voice caught on the little girl's name. The silver ring on her hand gleamed with firelight, and she had to look back up at her brothers before the tears could gather. She gave them a wan smile.    "I tried to fly over the storm, to see if I could get in range enough to find him and it..." Screaming wind -- frost on her wings, her hands -- needling rain -- blinding sand -- falling and falling and falling -- "It pulled me in before I could even get over the top of it. I didn't...I didn't stand a chance." and when i show my wounds to the stars, i'll be dead.