a/n: short fill for the cgkinkmemeii's bite-sized kink. Full prompt: victory; Suzaku, Kallen or Suzaku/Kallen
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Kallen doesn't go into battle expecting victory.
She doesn't go into battle expecting to lose either (because she's damned good at what she does, and she does what she does by being a fearless motherfucker, and you can't do that if you're anticipating death at every corner), but she doesn't go in expecting to win. That way lies arrogance, and she's felled enough over-confident Britannians to know that's not a path she wants to go down.
Still, she goes into battle expecting something, and watching the Lancelot explode, her screens fading to black, no closer to understanding the Knight she just killed, and the Emperor he died to protect – that shit ain't it.