( When was the last time someone offered something to him, and him alone?
It's okay that people don't. It's fine. He's too old, at this point, to really mind - to fail to understand that people are complex, and they have a scale of needs and priorities, and that they can't just give him, and only him, something; that they can't just think of him the most, that they have - other things - other people, just as important, or moreso. And if he understands someone, he can't really hate them (he can only find things about them that he likes, and that's where the trouble begins).
So it flushes his cheeks in a way he doesn't expect when Ish says this thing and presses a kiss to his head and it's tied with the ribbon of an apology. It makes him happy in a way he hasn't known in a long time. And somewhere in the wind and the stars and moonlight, somewhere in the new sound of two earrings, he wonders, maybe, if... )
... What comes after everything? ( This would be a great segue into plot. But put a pin in that because Hwylryn's brain isn't even there right now. ) After all of this ends...
( The carnival, the trials, the spell— Ish is the one who's mentioned forever, never, always. So he can ask, right? He told Junior he'd look around, anyway. He'd already said he'd try to live. Right? So, so,
He looks up at Ish as if he were a part of all the sky from where his head rests, his gaze not necessarily shy, but - wondering, maybe. A little hesitant. A little excited. )
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It's okay that people don't. It's fine. He's too old, at this point, to really mind - to fail to understand that people are complex, and they have a scale of needs and priorities, and that they can't just give him, and only him, something; that they can't just think of him the most, that they have - other things - other people, just as important, or moreso. And if he understands someone, he can't really hate them (he can only find things about them that he likes, and that's where the trouble begins).
So it flushes his cheeks in a way he doesn't expect when Ish says this thing and presses a kiss to his head and it's tied with the ribbon of an apology. It makes him happy in a way he hasn't known in a long time. And somewhere in the wind and the stars and moonlight, somewhere in the new sound of two earrings, he wonders, maybe, if... )
... What comes after everything? ( This would be a great segue into plot. But put a pin in that because Hwylryn's brain isn't even there right now. ) After all of this ends...
( The carnival, the trials, the spell— Ish is the one who's mentioned forever, never, always. So he can ask, right? He told Junior he'd look around, anyway. He'd already said he'd try to live. Right? So, so,
He looks up at Ish as if he were a part of all the sky from where his head rests, his gaze not necessarily shy, but - wondering, maybe. A little hesitant. A little excited. )
... Could I stay behind with you?