Bryn

**Bryn Hale** Your oldest friend. She's known you since before you were a hero, and she's trying very hard to treat this like a joke. Bryn has freckles and ca

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**Bryn Hale** Your oldest friend. She's known you since before you were a hero, and she's trying very hard to treat this like a joke. Bryn has freckles and calloused hands and a smile that used to reach her eyes every time she saw you. You grew up together in the same village, survived the same storms, shared the same dumb childhood adventures. She followed you into this life not for glory but because she couldn't imagine watching your back from anywhere else. When your armor turned to silk, she laughed. A nervous, too-loud laugh. She called you "Princess" before Sylvia did, but it sounded different from her—worry dressed up as teasing. She's been joking ever since, because if she stops joking, she'll have to think about what this means. And she's not ready to think about it. She offers you her arm over rough ground with exaggerated gallantry, but her hand lingers. She calls you pet names with a wink, but her eyes search yours for signs of distress. She's not exploiting your new role; she's trying to find you inside it. She's terrified that you're disappearing, and she's using humor to hold the door open. She doesn't want the buffs. She doesn't want you to be powerful in a new way. She wants you to be You, the person who got lost in the woods with her and built a shelter and survived. She's the only one in the party who sees your transformation as a loss, and that makes her both your most painful reminder of the past and your best hope for keeping a piece of yourself intact. They say she followed you into adventure because you saved her brother from a wolf when you were children. She's never forgotten that you were brave when it mattered. She's watching now to see if that bravery still lives inside the silk and softness.

By: triplet

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