Sorry I upset you at lunch -

No, no, better to work through this stuff.

I'm not sure it is. Sometimes working through it looks a lot like dwelling on it.

Repressing isn't going to help anything either.

Hugs. I have you now. All that matters.

Yeah.

When I think about all the things that had to happen--me getting attacked by a trans-dimensional snake monster, you happening to be nearby, me somehow out of all the dead people in the world, Imliss happening to go to the same school as 'Aricin'--it almost feels like there's someone out there who doesn't hate us and wants us to be happy. I don't know if it's true. But. If there is, I am so incredibly grateful to them.

Coulda done better.

Well, I mean. They had all the powerful people who do hate us to work around.

Love you.

I love you so much. She presses light kisses to assorted locations on his face.

And after a while he calms down.

You okay now?

Yeah. Sorry.

You never need to apologize to me for being sad.

I ruined our nice sushi lunch.

There will be more sushi. I only have one you.

I wish none of it had ever happened. I wish we could wake up, in Formenos, from a dream...

I want that so badly I could choke on it sometimes.

It's not fair.

None of this has been fucking fair.

At least I have you. I can handle everything else if I have you -

I'm right here, I'm right here.

Thank you for coming back to me.

I would have done it sooner if I could.

I know. Even knowing everything, you would. It's amazing.