@fatedtoruin sent: ❛ why are you here, if you don't mind me asking? ❜
for a moment, katherine did not answer. her gaze lingered (too long, too intent to be considered polite) as she studied the woman in front of her. it was not curiosity in the usual sense. because no matter how many times she had encountered it before, it never truly lost its edge.
her face. her features. reflected back at her as though the world had decided to mock her existence in the most deliberate way possible.
katherine’s head tilted slightly, her expression composed but her eyes unmistakably scrutinizing, tracing familiar lines that should have belonged to her alone. she did not see herself as a copy. never had. whatever twisted lineage connected them, it did not diminish that this, her face, was hers. and yet here it was. again.
"that’s an interesting question," she said at last, though there was a faint undercurrent of something colder beneath it. her arms folded loosely, not defensive. "i could ask you the same thing. it’s not every day i run into someone wearing my face," she continued, tilting her head just slightly, as if examining a detail she had not yet decided she liked. "and forgive me if i don’t find it particularly charming." she's here because she's curious. because every time she thought she understood how this little pattern works, something new appears to complicate it.
