“It won’t be like this forever. I just need time to… get used to you being here.” He takes a shuttering breath his voice thick with emotion I haven’t heard from him yet, “I’ve been alone for so long. I won’t go back to that. I can’t now. Fifteen years, sixty-seven days and four hours I’ve been here and never once in all that time have I wished for… you. Now it makes my stomach twist to think of going back to the darkness of this world, without even a glimpse of light. I'll spend a lifetime making it up to you.”
