fromfire: (from my ocean grave)
VERSO ([personal profile] fromfire) wrote in [community profile] etrayamemes 2025-07-02 04:45 am (UTC)

That would sound more like you.

[ To threaten to kill him, but he only smiles. He understands how difficult that this must all be for her. Verso doesn't know if things have to be that way for him, but everyone he knows is different and special to him.

Even her.

His eyes close as he tilts his head away; his shoulders lift and lower in a small shrug. ]


Perhaps.

[ But he does feel the shift in energy, in the room. It seems like she does have something that she wants to tell him. His posture shifts and he focuses on her; all of his attention as he waits for her to speak.

"I don't know if I can stay."

Verso wonders if she means in the manor or around him. He can't imagine how difficult it is for everyone else to be allowed to mourn while she has to carry on everything herself. Of course, he would say that she could grieve, but grief itself is selfish.

It is what he told her and believes she has the right for that selfishness. Although, perhaps, that is simply how he is made. Because while his existence will hurt her, it at least won't be the cause of her death. It may be a cause for some other hidden wound in her heart, but he believes she will find the way forward.

He has hope in those he loves and as complicated as their relationship is, he does love her, too. Perhaps, that is some cognitive dissonance that the memories cause in him, but -- ]


You don't have to if it's too painful.

[ It is what he says finally. ]

You have your own life, too, and you can experience some of it now.

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