bondsofsuffering | limelight

[ shakes his head ]

I know my luck's pretty terrible, but this is bad even for me.

Then...

What are your best guesses? For why you might be there, or how it'll resolve.

I had some...

[ wistful ]

...memories I thought were from after that. But I don't know anymore. As for why, that's probably easy. Gonna be a prophecy, or a war, or both. There's one I heard that I've been wondering about...but I'll need more memories to be sure.

You've been through a lot. If you have memories that seem to come afterwards, doesn't it seem possible you may have made it out after all...?

Maybe? It's a place that's...hard to describe.

[ struggles with that for a moment ]

Like it feels so overpowering, even in the memories, that nothing else feels real next to it. That's the only reality. Everything else is the dream.

[Shifting a little to press a kiss to his cheek.]

Is that feeling sticking with you right now, too?

[ a tiny smile at the kiss, but doesn't move much; easier to admit this without having to look snow in the face ]

...some. Not, like, entirely or anything.

Mm...

I have some arguments against it.

[ huffs out a breath, endeared ]

I'm listening.

No offense, but I don't think you have the imagination to create all the different members of Acidia alone, much less an entire, populated world with a history that's apparently got a ton of hidden twists and turns.

[

buries his face in snow's shoulder to start weakly laughing. gods. ]

Inventing not one, but two boyfriends just so you can get into emotionally fraught arguments? Mmm, I dunno about that one.

[Kissing his cheek again.]