[Not your worst. The soft laugh he exhales is mirthless and tired -- maybe not physically, but spiritually, perhaps. She doesn't know just how true that is, doesn't know how long he was gone after the Uprising, how much time he lost even then...
He does not often feel it, in Reverein. That loss of time. Perhaps it should weigh on him more.]
Agreed, [he whispers against her, soft and thoughtful. A full month. It is far too long, indeed. It will always be far too long. So many days lost, so much time wasted away... No amount of time is enough, to be honest. Months and years could go by and still it would not be long enough, because nothing will ever be enough. Not with the future that awaits them. And yet, to take that time with the future hanging over their heads...
That, too, is exhausting.
Goddess help him, the thoughts in his head churn mercilessly, returning again and again to a truth he does not want to acknowledge. Link does not let go of her. In a way, this is almost poetic, that he refuses to be the one to let go. He has been described generously as tenacious, but he prefers to think of it as stubbornness: the unwillingness to let the future be set in stone. To let evil win. To say goodbye.
He tries to redirect his thoughts, to focus on anything other than where his own mind is going.] What did I miss?
[A question with a second meaning beneath the words: is she alright?]
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He does not often feel it, in Reverein. That loss of time. Perhaps it should weigh on him more.]
Agreed, [he whispers against her, soft and thoughtful. A full month. It is far too long, indeed. It will always be far too long. So many days lost, so much time wasted away... No amount of time is enough, to be honest. Months and years could go by and still it would not be long enough, because nothing will ever be enough. Not with the future that awaits them. And yet, to take that time with the future hanging over their heads...
That, too, is exhausting.
Goddess help him, the thoughts in his head churn mercilessly, returning again and again to a truth he does not want to acknowledge. Link does not let go of her. In a way, this is almost poetic, that he refuses to be the one to let go. He has been described generously as tenacious, but he prefers to think of it as stubbornness: the unwillingness to let the future be set in stone. To let evil win. To say goodbye.
He tries to redirect his thoughts, to focus on anything other than where his own mind is going.] What did I miss?
[A question with a second meaning beneath the words: is she alright?]