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Megatron of Tarn ([personal profile] flickerandfade) wrote in [community profile] ximilialog 2021-11-08 04:34 am (UTC)

[ Oh.

Megatron hadn't expected that. It's a chaste thing, soft yet pressing. Megatron half-returns it, mostly out of surprise. It is nothing like the sort of hungry, victory-drunk embraces they used to share at the start of it all. When the rigidity of the system had been trembling, on the verge of collapse and to love whoever and however you wanted seemed to be as much an act of rebellion as gunning down a police officer or hurling a brick through a bank's window. As the shock clears, he smiles, almost embarrassed by affection he hasn't felt expressed in... far too long. ]


Among this army of lovers and killers
I never understood the joyous truth of flight

Until I saw you drive Kaon's streets
With no mech able to mark your steps

Or tell you what was forbidden


[ He murmurs the words softly from memory. A little thing, never published, but probably shared among the Conclave at some point. From a time when things had been different and complicated and yet so much simpler. ]

For what?

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