Budding Talent - FE3H - Bernadetta/Marianne

Title: Budding Talent
Fandom: Fire Emblem Three Houses
Challenge/Prompt: drabblesoup - better together
AO3 Link: here

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Bernadetta sat, shoulders and neck hunched, like a turtle desperately trying to get back into its shell. Unfortunately for her, in this case the shell was a whole fifteen-minute walk away and the turtle stranded on horseback, stretching the metaphor to its breaking point.

Beside her, Marianne was speaking to the horse in low, soothing tones.

"She can tell you're nervous, and that makes her nervous too,” she explained to Bernadetta. “You don't have to worry. She won't let you fall."

She put a hand on Bernadetta’s knee.

Slowly, Bernadetta unfolded in her saddle like a flower in the sun.

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