Contrary Winds - FE3H - Annette, Mercedes

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Title: Contrary Winds
Fandom: Fire Emblem Three Houses
Challenge/Prompt: Drabblesoup - change of pace
AO3 Link: here

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Annette enters the School of Sorcery like a whirlwind, four feet ten inches of restless energy that she pours full tilt into everything she sets out to do.

Slow and steady, Mercedes draws on the memory of another girl who could never just stop and matches her step by step, meeting frustration with patience, failure with encouragement, long evenings of work-until-you-drop with cookies and a blanket.

Sooner or later, she knows, Annie will storm ahead and leave her, slow and steady, in her wake.

But whenever she starts to fall behind Annie slows down to match her, step by step.

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