Talk:Vine Zeki/@comment-35247864-20200206175142/@comment-27144409-20200210173029

At minimum I suspect they were partners in school.... Is that why Harriet.... no... Vine and Elm are the only ones I can see having been on the same team before ace ops.

Considering the lampshaded parallels between her and Nora, maybe Elm and Vine had some romantic potential, but neither was able to ever really communicate that effectively, with Vine closing inward as Elm became more outgoing.

The idea of them hiding a more overt and intimate relationship has some merit and basis in real life, or at least enough fiction that it colors my assumptions about the real world. Militaries don't tend to be good places for two lovers to share a life, and they are regulated accordingly.