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[personal profile] polemos 2025-06-23 06:07 am (UTC)(link)
I see now why you and the Deliverer must get along. ( which is something of an answer to her question, while at the same time he knows he is avoiding any true response. he doesn't know how to respond to someone saying that he deserves kindness, tenderness of all things. ) You both concern yourselves with the wellbeing of others without a second thought, taking on those burdens as if they were your own. And yet I wonder if you are similar enough that you do it at the cost of your own desires.

It is not a weight you should add to your shoulders. Do not worry -- I am strong enough to carry it.
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[personal profile] polemos 2025-07-05 05:51 am (UTC)(link)
( there is the temptation to brush her words off -- he doesn't need him to look over him, to support him. but something about elysia compels him to be straightforward in his answer. perhaps he simply doesn't wish to have her see through him so effortlessly again. perhaps he knows that attempting to dodge it yet again will be futile. )

As long as he wishes for me to be by his side, I will be