Has anything stopped you when you're determined? However unwise.
[The loneliness... it was a difficult feeling to miss, attuned to that aspect of emotion as he was. But he doesn't comment on it, only sighing very quietly. Closing those earrings safely up in his hand, he wraps both arms around her. Straightening up, he tugs Irhya gently against him. Kisses the top of her head.
He knows he once would have resented it. How dare she develop feelings for someone she murdered, what entitlement, he would have assumed. Not only unwilling to return it, he would have despised it of her.
Instead, he holds her, takes that loneliness as though it were his own. Nothing was ever uncomplicated between them, was it?]
--You are invited, of course, whenever the ceremony takes place. I would want to have you there. You are... my oldest and dearest friend, after all.
[Even with a gap of years too numerous to count, of memory only he could still recall. Even with a gap of months, after their previous Bond was annulled, and their relationship afterward remained fraught with pain. Even so.]
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[The loneliness... it was a difficult feeling to miss, attuned to that aspect of emotion as he was. But he doesn't comment on it, only sighing very quietly. Closing those earrings safely up in his hand, he wraps both arms around her. Straightening up, he tugs Irhya gently against him. Kisses the top of her head.
He knows he once would have resented it. How dare she develop feelings for someone she murdered, what entitlement, he would have assumed. Not only unwilling to return it, he would have despised it of her.
Instead, he holds her, takes that loneliness as though it were his own. Nothing was ever uncomplicated between them, was it?]
--You are invited, of course, whenever the ceremony takes place. I would want to have you there. You are... my oldest and dearest friend, after all.
[Even with a gap of years too numerous to count, of memory only he could still recall. Even with a gap of months, after their previous Bond was annulled, and their relationship afterward remained fraught with pain. Even so.]