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Summary
In which Ortega grieves his fallen sidekick, and Chen attempts to hold everything together while pining quietly in the foreground.__"She, um. Sh-she left this, I guess, for me to look after," says Ricardo, voice starting to tremble. "I... I took it home and I was just... looking at her things, you know, it's mostly seashells and hairpins and postcards and--but I found these... papers? There's writing on it, but it's not like... regular writing, I don't think? It looks sort of fancy, but I can't really tell. I never asked, but... can you read in Chinese?"You nod. With any luck, it'll be something you can understand, maybe even something useful or interesting, give his hungry mind a morsel to chew on so it doesn't eat itself.
(But you don't really believe in luck anymore.)
(Do you?)
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