#there's some arlebina implied there. if u even care

[deepfriedtrout]

Ah, she was getting too sentimental over the orphans again.

"Not exactly. Tartaglia's visit this Children's Day has endeared most of them to him, leaving you in the dust." Arlecchino says, shaking her head in false sympathy to turn away from Columbina. But secretly, she cracks a grin. She's never been fond of the Tsaritsa's Vanguard, all too reckless and fixated on the grandeur of his bloodlust. What's better than pitting the Third against the runt of the litter?

She thumbs the golden engraving on her teacup.

Cunt, it said.

Arlecchino is one petty cunt, that she is honest about.

Or, Columbina and Arlecchino have some tea. Nothing goes wrong this time. (In other words, no one dies or gets brutally mauled.)