[The darkness around them lends to dreaming. Even the weak light Yennefer made for them, is dreamlike. Watery and barely penetrating the shadows, and Aleksander is lost here.
Swimming in it, and drowning in his own mind, the visions from the orb still writhing like snakes through his thoughts but Yennefer's soft voice brings him back, eyes snapping to hers in an instant.]
Do you care?
[It hadn't seemed like it, but he had lost sight of most of the others here in the moments after Scorpion's Bend. Had been too wrapped up in warring wants and the weakness that never stopped hammering through his heart.
The warmth of Yennefer's hands sinks beneath his skin, heating the cold pads of his fingers. The words almost mirroring those he'd heard before, those that he'd longed for for so long.]
We are all alone here, Yennefer. Or, we will be soon enough. A year from now, or ten. [Time wasn't a river, washing away the sins of the past. It was breaking branches and lost choices. His fingers close around hers.]
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Swimming in it, and drowning in his own mind, the visions from the orb still writhing like snakes through his thoughts but Yennefer's soft voice brings him back, eyes snapping to hers in an instant.]
Do you care?
[It hadn't seemed like it, but he had lost sight of most of the others here in the moments after Scorpion's Bend. Had been too wrapped up in warring wants and the weakness that never stopped hammering through his heart.
The warmth of Yennefer's hands sinks beneath his skin, heating the cold pads of his fingers. The words almost mirroring those he'd heard before, those that he'd longed for for so long.]
We are all alone here, Yennefer. Or, we will be soon enough. A year from now, or ten. [Time wasn't a river, washing away the sins of the past. It was breaking branches and lost choices. His fingers close around hers.]