sashsleeps
𝕭𝖑𝖆𝖈𝖐 𝕾𝖜𝖆𝖓 𝖒𝖊𝖊𝖙𝖘 𝕻𝖔𝖗𝖙𝖗𝖆𝖎𝖙 𝖔𝖋 𝖆 𝕷𝖆𝖉𝖞 𝖔𝖓 𝕱𝖎𝖗𝖊
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The Aldricht Ice Dance Academy is eighty years old. The ice has been resurfaced thousands of times. Coach Fenn has been here for forty of them. And he keeps meticulous records.
Cast as Odette in this season's Swan Lake, Elena Vasek is performing the role of a woman who cannot tell love from illusion. Off the ice, that line is beginning to blur.
Her obsession with Mara Kovač is becoming something dangerous. Mara is her rival. Her dark swan. And yet Elena has never been able to look away.
Then there's Adrian Voss, the new assistant coach. Warm in a building that runs cold. He watches Elena like he's waiting for something to go wrong, like he's seen it happen before.
Meanwhile, the gaps in Elena's memory are getting harder to explain away. Something is learning her, her voice, her hands, her wanting. and wearing it like a costume.
It wants what Elena wants. It isn't afraid to take it.
One rink. Two people who love her. Something else wearing her face. And the file with her name on it.