[ do i even remember what happened in this thread after i abandoned it for so long, stay tuned
Despite the words that wash over him and the warm hand that wraps around his, the reassurances do little in alleviating his concerns, which only seem to multiply with each passing second. Sure, that's always held true until now, that all Shardbearers are functionally immortal so long as as their Shards are intact, but—
But. His fingers tighten within the confines of Dokja's hold, nails once again scoring faint lines across his palm. ]
You were experimented on. How do you know things are still the same?
[ Maybe he's worrying over nothing as he always has, each one of his worries amplified by the encroaching threat of loss that looms so close on the horizon. Fear of his own death has always been a distant stranger, a blurred shape on the horizon that's never ventured too close. How can he fear death when he's courted it for so long? But now that it's closing in on someone else, someone he values and trusts, he can feel the ice spreading across his heart again, his instinctual response to shut down and close himself off flaring up again. ]
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Despite the words that wash over him and the warm hand that wraps around his, the reassurances do little in alleviating his concerns, which only seem to multiply with each passing second. Sure, that's always held true until now, that all Shardbearers are functionally immortal so long as as their Shards are intact, but—
But. His fingers tighten within the confines of Dokja's hold, nails once again scoring faint lines across his palm. ]
You were experimented on. How do you know things are still the same?
[ Maybe he's worrying over nothing as he always has, each one of his worries amplified by the encroaching threat of loss that looms so close on the horizon. Fear of his own death has always been a distant stranger, a blurred shape on the horizon that's never ventured too close. How can he fear death when he's courted it for so long? But now that it's closing in on someone else, someone he values and trusts, he can feel the ice spreading across his heart again, his instinctual response to shut down and close himself off flaring up again. ]