HARPER
He falls into her like a body into a grave, pressing into the warmth she offers that chases away the chill of bad memories and bloodied hands. There are no tears. Not because Harper is afraid to cry, but because he has cried so many times over his past that it simply doesn't happen anymore. After all of it he has achieved happiness, and there's no point in crying over things he can't change. No matter how painful the memories themselves may be.
"Thank you," he whispers in the safety of the crevices of her neck, the solid embrace she holds him in. Grounding him. "It doesn't excuse the things I did when I was free...but hearing it, it means more than you know." His mentor had always been stoic and reticent to compliment him on anything, no matter how much she cared for him. These are the words he has been searching for, and though they are delivered on a different tongue they still mean the world to him. And he can hear the story behind her own small confession, lifts his gaze just enough from her embrace to try and catch her eye. "I still think you're incredibly strong. But tell me anyway?" An offer, the same as the one she'd given him. An offer to listen, or to turn a blind eye if she doesn't want to talk about yet.
"Thank you," he whispers in the safety of the crevices of her neck, the solid embrace she holds him in. Grounding him. "It doesn't excuse the things I did when I was free...but hearing it, it means more than you know." His mentor had always been stoic and reticent to compliment him on anything, no matter how much she cared for him. These are the words he has been searching for, and though they are delivered on a different tongue they still mean the world to him. And he can hear the story behind her own small confession, lifts his gaze just enough from her embrace to try and catch her eye. "I still think you're incredibly strong. But tell me anyway?" An offer, the same as the one she'd given him. An offer to listen, or to turn a blind eye if she doesn't want to talk about yet.
this is your ocean, an ocean of night
BASE INSPIRED BY ODD <3
