if it falls, I would hold on for all it's worth.

Isla

to share the space with simple living things, infinitely suffering

Huffing out a laugh as well, Isla hasn't realised how much she's wanted to hear something as simple as what is essentially yeah, we still like each other, but it's enough to almost have tears prickling at the corners of her eyes. Blinking them quickly away, she leans in to press a quick kiss to his flushed cheeks, leaning into the brush of his fingers against her jaw. "I'm glad you agree. And it's never a bad thing, to be surprised by your own experiments," she points out.

"Perhaps you just underestimated yourself," she says, of one of the potential variables he's overlooked. "You're getting to know this version of you as much as I am, after all. For what it's worth, I'm glad. And it does feel easy - more than easy. It feels the way it always did." Because apparently whatever flavour of Everest Hart he chooses to present to her, they are apparently all Isla's type.

"Of course," she says with a smile that hints towards mischief, turning to plant a kiss against the inside of his wrist. "It's always important to be thorough about these things." She might have also said it was important not to rush into them, regardless of the initial data, but that would make Isla a liar when it comes to what she wants.

fighting off like all creation, the absence of itself

Code blatently stolen from queen of codes, Sky!