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July 28 - July 30, 2023
Tell me, little butterfly, what would you do for love?
“Why,” he hissed, “is my brother imprisoned in fucking Ilyzath?”
Death was like a lost lover. We circled each other. I craved more with every brush of its touch. All I wanted was for it to take me to its bed and never let me leave.
“Five hundred years is a very long time,” he said, at last. “One hundred and eighty thousand days, and I thought of you in every one.”
For an age of your people, I am here. Suns rise and set, and I am here. Empires fall, and I am here. Long before the sunrise or the stars or the shape of the Aran seas coastline. Long before these walls and long after mortals destroy this world. I will feel it fall around my feet, and I will watch. That is inevitability.
“His heart is what truly lit the fires of war, and the fire burns because of you. The decision was for all of us, yes. But the vengeance? The vengeance is for you.”
“One hundred and eighty thousand days I have been at the mercy of human kings,” I snarled. “And if you think you are any better than any of them, you are a fool.”
You were the one that wanted to save the world. I just wanted to save you.
I would murder someone for tea.
Sella- Thank you for everything. We’re glad life is treating you well. If your daughter ever needs anything, know that she can come to me. -Max
“You think you are alone, Aefe, in this body. But there is life everywhere. In blood and flesh. In breath. In a heartbeat.” His thumb gently caressed the back of my hand, where he still pressed my palm over his heart, and my breath shuddered.
“It was a gift, Max,” she murmured. “A gift to have known you. I hope that you have the most incredible, happy life. I hope you find a future worth forgetting your past. Make it worth it. Find joy. Do you understand?”
A realization came to me, one that I had been grappling with for the last ten years. There was no single moment when everything changed. No single before and after. There was just… life. A million decisions and a million consequences.
“You want the truth? The memories are hard, yes. But none of that scared me as much as the prospect of exactly how close I came to
never seeing you again. That’s what fucking terrifies me.”
“You were trying to do what’s right. I know, you insufferable, stubborn creature.”
“I’m not much for words, so I’ll only say this once. If you ever have to guess what I want, or what is best for me, it is you. Alright? I have made that decision already. I do not make it lightly. Don’t disrespect that by claiming that you know better for me than I do. I have made bad decisions before. But you are not, never have been, and never will be one of them. It is always you.”
“So demanding,” he said, as his hands slowly ran up my sides. “Put me in my place, then.”
We all feel the same things, and we will still die trying to kill each other for it.”
The Alliance of Seven Banners.”
“You asked me if you frightened me,” he breathed, then kissed me again, harder. “The answer is yes. You terrify me.”
“Do not fear death, my daughter. We all walk with one foot in each world. There is beauty in impermanence. And what sad lives we would live, if we never loved anything we would lose.”
She was just… lost. A poor, lost heart like I had once been, ripped from world after world, belonging to nothing and everything, desperate for connection.
It ends with two souls who create a future together.
