i have died everyday waiting for you
“No, no.” Mort soothes, and though the god is actually shorter than Ronin, still he’ll feel colossal next to the demigod. “You never need to apologize to me.”
Pulling in a breath, Mort considers. “Imagine that the soul is a circle. It can be divided and divided to accommodate all the things forced upon it - both those it welcomes and those it is forced to endure. The largest part of Remi’s soul is inflexibly devoted to you, while the rest is a carefully curated assortment of horrors that has only one purpose. You are not wrong to to think that your love is certainly what keeps the darkness in check, but if we were to insert just a small fragment into the darkness…it would force the darkness to become just that much smaller, and provide a wedge within Remi that wasn’t reliant on you.”
Pulling in a breath, Mort considers. “Imagine that the soul is a circle. It can be divided and divided to accommodate all the things forced upon it - both those it welcomes and those it is forced to endure. The largest part of Remi’s soul is inflexibly devoted to you, while the rest is a carefully curated assortment of horrors that has only one purpose. You are not wrong to to think that your love is certainly what keeps the darkness in check, but if we were to insert just a small fragment into the darkness…it would force the darkness to become just that much smaller, and provide a wedge within Remi that wasn’t reliant on you.”
