There was something bittersweet and stoic in the parting, the finals words were hers. Will gave her that and spared her by not making it worse by saying something cloyingly off color.
He left it in her bag instead.
The first a memory, a photo taken during one of their recent forays with something scribbled on the back hastily in his hand:
The second a little bit of payback. Taneth and Elessaria wouldn't get to tease her about it, but there was no telling who among her people would be standing there when she found it:
The last wasn't funny. It was carefully wrapped and a note gave instructions with its use, the parting words stating simply, "There's no such thing as a fair fight":
