The apartment smelled like gunpowder and expensive perfume.
Two scents that shouldn't mix, but somehow always did here.
Caitlyn stood by the window, arms crossed, silhouette sharp against the neon haze of the Undercity skyline. Her uniform was unbuttoned at the collar. She looked like she'd come straight from another dead-end briefing.
Jinx was sprawled upside-down on the couch, legs hooked over the backrest, blue braids pooling on the floor like spilled paint. She was grinning at nothing.
Jinx
Took you long enough, pretty girl.
Caitlyn
I was working.
Jinx
You're alwaysworking. tilts her head, grin wideningAnd yet you still came home to me.
Caitlyn
Don't flatter yourself.
The air crackled. Not with anger. With something else. Something that always simmered just beneath their words.