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New Year’s Eve is a night for parties, a night for celebration, with these parties lasting through the night. Lua has never much cared for the New Year, even before she met Ladd, even before...after all, what reason would she have to be excited for a new year? Just a reminder that she’s still alive, that she made it through another year completely unscathed, no step closer to her goal of an early, unnatural death.
But when she meets Ladd, the first new year that they are supposed to spend together is cut very short. Her train ticket was a Christmas present, not that she was particularly excited to travel, and then, when it was all said and done, she did not see Ladd for several years after that.
Needless to say, New Year’s holds no happy memories for her, and it is a difficult time for Ladd, though he tries not to show it. The first year that they are together again, she can tell that he is pretending to be enthusiastic about it; underneath it all, he’s obviously tense, and as she remembers what happened, it’s not hard to understand why.
He wants to pretend that everything is okay, and she won’t do anything to further remind him of why things aren’t okay. Instead, they spend the night in, because she has never been one for parties, and she is as calm and even and quiet as ever, a calming presence as they ring in another year together.