That's only because you're here. [Isn't thorny, no, but it's sincere enough to prove both delicate and sharp— a fainter rawness in his voice that doesn't otherwise affect his balmy expression, insistent. You don't know the theriac you are.
His fingers cling too tightly. The press of his forehead is insistent.
And coincidentally, content. Lest anyone present in this space (Astarion perhaps most of all) mistake old aches for present feeling.]
You've never seen me without you.
I hope you never have to.
[No lilting emphasis. No songbird hum. He's such an ugly thing without his Leto— more vitriol and spite than flesh. The others might attest to that.]
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His fingers cling too tightly. The press of his forehead is insistent.
And coincidentally, content. Lest anyone present in this space (Astarion perhaps most of all) mistake old aches for present feeling.]
You've never seen me without you.
I hope you never have to.
[No lilting emphasis. No songbird hum. He's such an ugly thing without his Leto— more vitriol and spite than flesh. The others might attest to that.]