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It was difficult addressing Mr. Pigeon so frequently. It was easy to become condescending as a superhero - she knew what it was like to not be able to hold your own; defend yourself. Encouraging a person without a miraculous could easily do the opposite... although it exhausted her and Chat Noir, being there to save him when he fell under the akuma was their best option. He had to choose to choose good in times of difficulty himself - even if those times were very minor to others.
Swiftly, and with vigour, the lady in red slipped into a dark alleyway by La Seine, the gentle brushing of moving water forming the background music as she released the fulfilling power that gifted her strength. Confetti of rouge dissipated into the air, Tikki summoning into a gently exhausted form. So used to de-transforming; disguising her secret identity even from her best friend; so clever and knowledgeable, Marinette had not truly noticed her mistake; her lack of care. In the silence of the Seine, she had not been alone, not like the many times before. So dark that even the hyper-sensitive Ladybug had not noticed upon touching ground. Cheerful conversation with her feeding kwami filled the empty void that the middle-schooler hadn’t recognised; present and consuming her secrecy...
“Tikki, don’t eat it too fast okay? You’ll get indigestion,” she lectured with a teasing smile.














