If I can stop one heart from breaking
If I can ease one life the aching
If I can ease one life the aching
“I would happily turn a blind eye to such deviousness,” he laughs, and though he knows she supports him too fully in his role to ever consider it, the idea is appealing. To the both of them. A shame then that they are so needed by people aside from themselves. Maybe after the war. But that is a thought he does not want to dwell on, a future too fraught and uncertain to plan for.
He steals a stray vegetable chunk from her cutting board as she preps the potatoes, holding it up to her lips for her to eat though it tempts him just the same. Harper certainly isn’t expecting the topic she moves to, but he listens raptly, tilting away from her so their eyes might meet. It’s not something he has ever considered admittedly. “Ronin and Sunjata are far more precious and useful to her than I am. I don’t think she’d ever ask that of me.” He feels the need to reassure her despite the fact she has just confirmed she would harbor no resentments. And his heart blooms with love anew for her for that. “But I’m glad to know that. Just as I’ll never begrudge you your physicality with Frey - or if they ever bestowed upon you a child somehow as well.” Frey didn’t seem inclined historically, but Phoebe was also special to the deity in that way. Pressing a kiss to the corner of her mouth, he squeezes her middle gently. “Whatever the cause of their creation, we’ll love them just the same.” As meaningful a vow as the one they’d make with the rings they would find for one another.
He steals a stray vegetable chunk from her cutting board as she preps the potatoes, holding it up to her lips for her to eat though it tempts him just the same. Harper certainly isn’t expecting the topic she moves to, but he listens raptly, tilting away from her so their eyes might meet. It’s not something he has ever considered admittedly. “Ronin and Sunjata are far more precious and useful to her than I am. I don’t think she’d ever ask that of me.” He feels the need to reassure her despite the fact she has just confirmed she would harbor no resentments. And his heart blooms with love anew for her for that. “But I’m glad to know that. Just as I’ll never begrudge you your physicality with Frey - or if they ever bestowed upon you a child somehow as well.” Frey didn’t seem inclined historically, but Phoebe was also special to the deity in that way. Pressing a kiss to the corner of her mouth, he squeezes her middle gently. “Whatever the cause of their creation, we’ll love them just the same.” As meaningful a vow as the one they’d make with the rings they would find for one another.
I shall not live in vain
HARPER
