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"You can use it for whatever you want... It is part of you. The same way I use my hands to stir my tea, I can use my magic to heat it up."

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"He had YOU..." Rolling her eyes... She wasn't used to... well... not being THE right hand.

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Winter smiled at her. "You know, if you do ever decide to try learning and using more your semblance, please let me know? I bet I could help you a lot."

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"And I am very proud to share this element with one of my sisters."

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"I can use any elements, I just prefer to use ice because that, for me, is the best element." She smiled before taking another sip and finishing her teacup.

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"Not as long as you do, clearly... Saw hit at most once or twice with Ironwood before we came to Vacuo."

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She will use her maiden powers to warm both teas just before Aria managed to drink hers. It was starting to get cold!

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"It's fine, same for yours if you don't drink it..." She takes another sip.

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But she didn't know what to do, she didn't know how she could help Aria and Whitley get over the damage their dad caused... Winter sighed.

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"And I can clearly see the consequences of... only being here now, and not before, when you were all growing up."

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Winter raised an eyebrow... how could she not have failed?

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"I doubt that." Winter is too formal to ask him that!

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"Teddy... Oh right!... Still too unreal for someone to call him that..."

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"I'll report about him once we are back... We completed the mission, we don't have to deal with him, but still a good idea to let others know."

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Clearly Weiss managed to break free out of their father, but the others?.... Winter was the oldest sister, she was the first one to realize what father was, but she just... left... "I'm very sorry, Aria..."

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"Really?... Was it not..." Now she was confused.

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"Did you wanted to escape?" The thought about it made her feel worse...

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"I'm saying he most have a reason to be so scared and full of hatred over anyone... Guy is a faunus... maybe..." She stopped herself, knowing full well her family was very much responsible for a lot of the bad things that happened to them...

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"I don't regret joining the army, I don't regret climbing the ranks, and I sure do not regret getting kicked out by father... But I do regret not being more present for you and our brothers."

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"Either he is insane or he must have his reasons... Don't tell me you never encountered someone you'd be happy to see getting eaten by a Grimm."

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. . . Yes, she really wanted to know how someone became like that... "You don't?"

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"Really? You are not even a little curious?"

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"Makes you wonder what happened for him to become like this..." She said, quietly, after they took some distance.

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"Yes, and it only costed me getting kicked out of the family by father and then abandoning all my younger siblings. This wasn't a good trade at all."

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"Success?" Winter felt anything but successful...

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'I know this... but they kept this place safe... safe from people like you.... people who try and hurt me...' Winter would definitively have to report about this guy later...

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Winter raised her cup to take a sip, this felt so wrong to her, but she also didn't want to press someone on using a semblance they didn't want to. "I'm sorry I haven't been a big sister that was very present in your life. After my falling-out with father, I ended up dedicating myself to the army."

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He just fell to his knees while the two of them walked away... Winter approached Kestrel. "Don't you feel a little bad?"

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"Then why still follow his desire to hide part of you?"

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Winter decided to do the same? She was feeling a bit guilty... 'Where are you going?!... What am I going to do now? Where will I hide?...'

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Winter nodded her head, looking down at the cup in her hands, a show of guilt in her eyes... As the oldest sibling, she really abandoned them all to that monster, didn't she?... "I suppose..."

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'You killed it!' "We did..." 'WHYYY?!' Winter blinked a couple more times, she looked over at Kestrel and just shrugged her shoulders, what should they even do on a situation like that?

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She knew who he was, she was just confused over that reaction, how could anyone be sad that thing died? 'YOU!' He pointed at Kestrel.

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After a minute he appeared, coming out from a wall next to them. 'What have you two done?! You killed it!' Winter was just... confused...

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She was about to start walking towards one of the nearby tunnels when they both heard a loud cry... 'Nooooooooo...' "Is this your friend?..." Sounded like it!

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"You know you can talk to me, right? You can be open with me, I will not judge you." She held her cup with both hands.

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"Aria..." She closes her hand, the ice disappearing. "You and you alone should decide how to use what's yours. But hiding it away for the sake of fitting with the family? I can't accept that. You ARE part of my family, no matter what."

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