[She takes a moment to think about this. It feels like - reliving it all over again, she thinks, like darkness and fear and the taste of soil in the back of her throat. It feels like dying over and over and coming back to life until life barely means anything at all anymore. But it also means the ability to try again. It means people like Ben, and Kylar, and Elena, and it means she isn't beaten, not yet.]
[Slowly, she smiles. It's not a nice smile, not particularly, a little too wide and a little too cruel, but it contains hope, too. It's incongruous, a paradox, and it's all her.]
It feels like they're dead, and I'm still alive, and I'm going to win.
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[Slowly, she smiles. It's not a nice smile, not particularly, a little too wide and a little too cruel, but it contains hope, too. It's incongruous, a paradox, and it's all her.]
It feels like they're dead, and I'm still alive, and I'm going to win.