Zero-Player Game - Hiveswap - MSPA Reader

Title: Zero-Player Game
Fandom: Hiveswap
Challenge/Prompt: Drabblesoup - victory
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You keep training with Stelsa every morning, or what passes for morning on Alternia. Once a week, you're invited for grubloaf.

Sometimes, you still feel like you should be out there, making new friends. But the compulsive need that used to animate you is gone, and without it you find it easier to be happy with what you already have. 

You find a lot of things easier, these days.

It's funny. Whatever game you’ve been playing all these months, you're pretty sure you’ve lost it — or maybe it lost you?

You never knew losing could feel so much like victory.

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