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Cremisius "Krem" Aclassi ([personal profile] krempuff) wrote 2015-11-01 09:15 pm (UTC)

He chuckled as well, though it was a little quieter. And that was the crux of it, he supposed, to have found someone so young and so similarly inexperienced as him and from such a different place. He could still be with Hild, there was no reason he couldn't. But it seemed a situation would no one would win in, after the fact.

It ached, ultimately. He had come, hoping for settlement. All he had was a wash of emotion, like inky spilled on parchment. He was always going to have a stain, no matter how he tried to blot it out.

"It's a little foolish," he said, almost wistful, and leaned against her counter, "precisely because I don't know if he'd be mad. And so I don't dare risk it. Because I'm a coward."

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