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The sun’s rays shine through Robyn’s window, and she slowly opens her eyes. A new day. Yuzuki Goto had accepted her challenge. Robyn knew she should be excited. Or fearful. Or pulsing with a fierce desire to win. After all, this was Robyn’s chance to move forward with her career, to find out just where she stood on her own. And any of those feelings would be normal. You’re supposed to feel at least one of those.
For Robyn, pre-match excitement was something she felt most keenly before a tag match against Sue Plex and Jo Behr. On paper, not the most glamorous match-up. But for Robyn it was special. It was the first time she tagged with… her.
Fear? The steel cage match against Kelly DiVanna easily brought out the most of that. And not even because it was Robyn’s first steel cage match. No. The stakes of that match, what it would have meant for her to lose… to be forced to perform for Goldman Studios… even now Robyn could hardly bring herself to think of it. But she overcame that fear and won, all thanks to support and encouragement from… her.
And that fierce desire to win? Robyn never felt that more keenly than when the tag titles were on the line. She wanted, no, needed The Birds of Prey to succeed. And there was nothing she wouldn’t have done to avoid being the reason they didn’t, because she wanted to win for… her.
For Andi Kestrel. The woman she loved.
A woman that was gone.
The absence of her presence was all Robyn could think about. The myriad of possibilities that could be to blame for taking her away, all ringing in Robyn’s head like a constant cacophony of dread.
A few tears trickle down Robyn’s cheeks as she sits up in bed. She holds her face in her hands. No. She needed to… to not be this. She needed a distraction. And if squatting in the dojo had one benefit besides free rent, it was that distractions were easy to find.
