sacredpath | pc: jiaoqiu

From:

[ well - then, with a careful and cautious burst of hope that he very quickly pushes back down: ]

... Whenever you'd like to try, then.

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sacredpath

[okay well it is slightly anticlimactic but she will just reach her hand out to touch him on the eyes, close her eyes, and focus. and there's probably some silly latin phrase too. and as she does that, there's a glow of blueish green light and it will start to work.]

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fried

[ he keeps his eyes closed, as she reaches to touch his face. there's a glow that he doesn't see - until suddenly, he can. he can see the glow from the dark of his closed eyes, and maybe in a silly sort of instinctive way, he reaches to hold onto shadowheart's arm loosely.

if he's a little scared, he's trying not to show it. but. it is working. it seems like it's working. ]

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sacredpath

[well, she'll take her hands away, unsure herself if it worked.]

...Well?

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fried

[ he opens his eyes!

and just... looks at her. really looks at her, for the first time in all the time he's been here, and - embarrassingly, his voice cracks, but: ]

... Oh, you're beautiful.

[ just - realizing it, now that he can clearly see her face. a little laugh, just slightly wet, and he covers his mouth as all the emotions hit him at once. ]

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sacredpath

[ohhhh laughing a bit at that and blushing as well.]

What a thing to say. I know, but still.

[she's so happy that it worked, though. very pleased.]

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fried

[ he laughs again, ear flicking. ]

Well, it's true. I can... I can see it, I can see you.

[ a beat, and he brings that hand up to wipe at his eyes like ??? at the fact that they're wet? oh. okay. ]

Ah.

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sacredpath

[ohhhhh, going to hug him]

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fried

[ oh, okay, he's okay with that.

he will hug her back, tightly. ]

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sacredpath

[warm feelings.]

I'm very relieved it worked. I wasn't sure.

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fried

I suppose there's no reward without risk.

[ he's glad she did try. he'll let her go after a moment, but he is still kind of weepy. embarrassing... ]

And you tried to tell me you were no accomplished healer.

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sacredpath

I’m not.

[but she’s still extremely happy and pleased.]

Or at least, I never thought about it. My training as a healer was to serve Lady Shar, and her warriors. [not ever someone she actually cared for, not something where she was happy to see how much she helped.]

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fried

[ he gives her a very warm smile. ]

Well. Now you can say that you have helped someone because you wanted to.

... Thank you. [ he can imagine she knows how much this means to him. it makes all of his worst insecurities just a little less nightmarish. ]

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sacredpath

I can. And I'm very happy that it was you.

[she does know, but more than anything, it feels wonderful that she did something to help him, after everything.]

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fried

[ a little tail wag... ]

Oh - I've just remembered. Will you come with me for a moment? I have something I wanted to show you.

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sacredpath

Alright. Show me.

[she will follow...]

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fried

[ imagine he just pulled a nott and took her somewhere to stab her

he doesn't do this. he takes her to the olive garden, and leads her to some of the plots where the flowers are being grown... only to pull a tarp up away from the ground to show her a little crop of night orchids.

tada! he glances at her, maybe a little nervously, like - god, he hopes these are the right ones. ]

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sacredpath

[admittedly i was scared. (no).

anyway, her emotions as he shows her this are just delight, and feeling very touched. going over to touch one of the growing ones, feel its petals. she's so happy, they are so beautiful, but it is also just so nice to be thought of.]

They're so beautiful! I didn't know if it was possible.

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fried

[ embarrassingly his tail wags when she's delighted? he's so pleased. ]

I didn't know if it was either - but as I said before, there's no reward without risk. [ hehe. ] Growing them in the dark seemed to help... and the fact that this place is just a touch magical.

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sacredpath

[it's just always nice to remember people care about you enough to remember the things you said to them and do something nice for you from it. like even if every piece of you was erased, the things you had mentioned to others would be carried on in their memory.]

Thank you, Jiaoqiu. It makes me very happy to see them again. I always feel like... remembering that I like them is one of the only things I've always known about myself, even when I know little else.

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fried

[ there's something about living on in someone's memories. even if they don't see each other again in the future, he will always remember this, and the warmth of it will make him feel less alone. ]

I do hope that more of your memories come back to you, Shadowheart. [ ... ] I should like to know that sometime in the future, you are happy with who you are.

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sacredpath

[smiling a bit.]

I don't know whether they will, or that I want them to. At least some might be better off forgotten. But being happy with who I am isn't a bad goal.

[she's at least learned to trust a little that the people here who care about her care about a version of her that's real, that wouldn't collapse if they knew too much about her.]

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fried

Then - I will hope more for the latter.

[ he picks one of the orchids, and he comes over to her - tucks it behind her ear, in her hair. ]

I believe in you.

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sacredpath

[blushing a little. but there's a sad feeling in there, too. it's so kind of him, but only reminds her that there's very little time left.]

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fried

[ yeah. he's been trying to not think about it so much, because it kills him a little every time he does. it's so hard to have found people that have genuinely changed his life, only to know he'll lose them for an indefinite amount of time at the end. you'll see them again when you die for real, god had said. what a thing to say.

he isn't quite sure of the source of the sadness, but he can maybe guess. so he gives her a little reassuring feeling anyway. ]