>>19117408Noire was right. She was living under the shadow of her mother. The shadow of Priscilla and now perhaps even the shadows of Cassie and Kasumi.
Kelly catches the coin. A mark of the success her mother achieved, the kind of success that has remained out of her reach. She’d have been eager to collect a memento like this in the not too distant past. But right now?
>I don’t need your advice.>And I don’t want your sympathy.>Keeping my mother’s shadow with me won’t help me get out from under it any sooner.She casts one last glance at the coin then tosses it back to Noire.
>So thanks, but you can keep that. >When they’re making those for me one day, you can put mine next to hers.