last couple of months kinda been a disaster
“I know.” He repeats, pulling her along with him until his feet can get under him and he can collapse into the hot, sunlit sand where the waves don’t reach. He pulls her with him, down and down until he can hold her against his chest, panting as he tries to catch his breath from the swim and the water that’s dripping from both their bodies.
He takes a sharp breath, eyes heavy and red from the saltwater and emotions that course through him as he holds her close. “So ‘ts somethin’ we work on.” He manages. Something they can both try to become better at — her and her words and him and his understanding of what she means. For now, though, he hears what she says of Safrin — surprised she’s even gone and met a god, Abandoned as she was. But his heart blossoms with pride for her.
“You’d be great at it.” At protecting people. Isn’t that similar to what she’d done before? But he doesn’t stop there, he can ask about Safrin later, but for now? For now he loosens his tight grip a fraction so that he can reach up and pull her chin up to face him, to make sure they’re eye to eye. “Jus… Don’ you ever fucking do that again. Don’ disappear like that. Please.” His voice cracks and he tries to focus on her with all his exhausted bronze intensity. “I love ya, ‘Relia. Please don’ do that t’me.”
He takes a sharp breath, eyes heavy and red from the saltwater and emotions that course through him as he holds her close. “So ‘ts somethin’ we work on.” He manages. Something they can both try to become better at — her and her words and him and his understanding of what she means. For now, though, he hears what she says of Safrin — surprised she’s even gone and met a god, Abandoned as she was. But his heart blossoms with pride for her.
“You’d be great at it.” At protecting people. Isn’t that similar to what she’d done before? But he doesn’t stop there, he can ask about Safrin later, but for now? For now he loosens his tight grip a fraction so that he can reach up and pull her chin up to face him, to make sure they’re eye to eye. “Jus… Don’ you ever fucking do that again. Don’ disappear like that. Please.” His voice cracks and he tries to focus on her with all his exhausted bronze intensity. “I love ya, ‘Relia. Please don’ do that t’me.”
tell all my friends i'm asleep if they ask ya
sorry, i had to move to alaska
MILO
