LJ Idol, Week 5: "Oubaitori" (Aisling & Ember, part 4)

Aisling stared out her office window, lost in thought. The skyscrapers across the river caught her eye. They reminded her of the bar graphs she should be working on for her quarterly reports, but work didn't appeal to her at the moment. Nothing was appealing to her.

She felt disconnected. Not just from Ember – Aisling was slowly getting used to that – but from everything. Their twin-bond was gone for good. It had been over a month since the circuit had last worked, and in that time their paths had diverged too much to re-sync. The loss had saddened Aisling at first, but now… she wasn't so sure.
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