Return!

[vanyel_ashkevron]

I'm tired, Mun. What do you wish of me? I have played your games before and found little enjoyment in them.

[He looks up from darning a blanket. Why yes, he can darn. Shut up. It's manly.]

What do you mean anything is possible?

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[wildgift]

It wouldn't on mine either. Gods, Van, since I met you I haven't been with anyone else. I just don't want to be anymore.

[vanyel_ashkevron]

You…haven't? No one? [His eyes widen in wonder.]

[wildgift]

No one. Ask Medren.

[vanyel_ashkevron]

He has said you're…different. I didn't know it was because of me.

[wildgift]

Well, now you do. What do you intend to do about it?

[vanyel_ashkevron]

Check you for some mental illness, perhaps?

[wildgift]

I'm perfectly fine, Vanyel.

[vanyel_ashkevron]

Then… [He rests their heads together, sighing.] Stefen, I'm a Herald. I could die at any moment. I don't want you to have to mourn for me. I've been through that.

[wildgift]

Do you really think I don't know that? Gods, Van, quit trying to send me away.

[vanyel_ashkevron]

[Swallowing with difficulty, he drags Stefen into a desperate kiss.]

I don't want to!

[wildgift]

[Wait what did that just happen]

So don't.

[vanyel_ashkevron]

[Break him down why don't you, adorable Bard.]

I can't imagine a happy ending for this…for us.

[wildgift]

[Victory!]

The world isn't always ending.

[vanyel_ashkevron]

Except when it is. [He smiles, the expression pained.] I've…had one dream in particular for most of my life. At this point, I wonder if it's a vision.

[wildgift]

Oh.

[vanyel_ashkevron]

But maybe it can be changed. I'm not as I once was.

[wildgift]

I hope so.

[vanyel_ashkevron]

If…I have you…I have reason to live.

[wildgift]

That's a good thing to hear, at least.

[vanyel_ashkevron]

But I want you to find happiness - even if something happens to me.

[wildgift]

I will be if you will.

[vanyel_ashkevron]

I haven't been with anyone in…years.

[wildgift]

Is that supposed to put me off?

[vanyel_ashkevron]

I'm telling you: you will have to be patient with me.

[wildgift]

I haven't been patient so far?