Ivy

Who she is

The temptation is to read Ivy as cold, and it misses her. She is not indifferent to Aster. She has never once considered that the pairing might require anything of her, because it was settled long before either of them had a view about it, and settled things do not need work.

Nobody ever taught Ivy to earn something she was told was already hers. Outside that certainty she is confident, capable and genuinely well liked in the stable, which makes the problem harder to see. She is not entitled to everything. She is entitled to this one thing, completely, because everyone around her spent years teaching her that she was.

What it produces is a bond with nothing inside it. She extends very little warmth toward Aster specifically and cannot see why she would need to. When people ask how she feels about the arrangement, the question does not land, because feeling was never something the arrangement asked of her.

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