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No matter what dark waters await us, I will keep fighting my way back to the surface.
But perhaps strength was not always about grabbing a sword and brandishing it tirelessly against monsters. Maybe, sometimes, it was standing amongst the rubble. Breathing it in. Being tired but still deciding to take another step, despite not knowing what awaited you on the other side.
“For that is the true, dual nature of love, isn’t it?” she said. “A terrible, wonderful force. Nothing can break things so completely. Nothing can heal things so fully.
“And then you, old and grey—” “But still handsome.” “Obviously.” “And you will be as stunning as ever, too.” “We must remain equals, yes.”
“We still have it, even if you can’t see it at the moment. Even if the scenery changes, nothing else does. I knew precisely what I was getting into when I asked you to marry me. Even if it’s months from now, or years, or another lifetime before it’s all settled.”
May sun and solace rise to meet you Blade and courage always keep you Through wealth of light or depths of night Until time takes your final breaths and both your souls find rest
“Across lifetimes, through endings and beginnings, with all that I have, all that I’ve ever had…” Recognition warmed his expression, and he repeated more of that conversation in the same soft but certain tone, “I never stopped loving you. And I never will. I’ve made that vow before—nearly every time I’ve looked at you in this lifetime and every other—and I make it again now.” She nodded. As do I. “Always. Every beat of my heart and breath from my lungs is yours now.”
There is always an after, she had told Elander. On to the other side, as her friends had grown so fond of saying. But another thought had occurred to her tonight—that even if they never made it to after, they had made it to now, and this was worth celebrating even without the promise of anything else.
