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The rink's stark lights bled into a dizzying smear of color, narrowing until only Katya remained at its heart. She moved like something breakable and beautiful, a fragile angel gliding on a frozen breath, her arms wide and blonde hair whipping across her face as her skirt flared in a perfect camel spin. Then came the disaster. Going for the axel, her skate betrayed her. She plummeted, a sickening crack of body meeting ice that echoed through the hollow chill of the arena. Shuddering, she forced herself upright, one hand clutching the deep ache in her hip, the sting of humiliated tears sharp in her eyes. Through the blur, she saw you, you, a still silhouette by the entrance, your own gear in hand, a silent witness to her spectacular, painful failure.