[ is it more painful to leave or be left. maybe it's not worth weighing. a knife that cuts both ways, equally sharp. she doesn't seem angry either, if anything it's cold fear. recognition. to leave suddenly without a goodbye is to leave an empty space that only festering, rotting grief fills. despite her age, her station, he's much more mature than her. that might be obvious now.
The emotion is confusion again - hollow and reaching for something that doesn't exist - when he says that name.]
[ She is a little angry now, frustrated, leftover embers from the lightning strike of that emotional pass. But then it fades too, to match him. ]
Something dangerous was threatening our borders. Instead of allowing me to go in her stead, she left without warning. By the time I managed to hear of it and catch up to her, it was too late.
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The emotion is confusion again - hollow and reaching for something that doesn't exist - when he says that name.]
I don't know who-- you're speaking to.
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vax shakes his head, and all that's left is the empathy, and the sorrow, less heated and just achingly sad. his shoulders slump. ]
... You, Steel.
[ fuck. ]
...She left without saying goodbye, huh.
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Something dangerous was threatening our borders. Instead of allowing me to go in her stead, she left without warning. By the time I managed to hear of it and catch up to her, it was too late.
... Were you allowed to say goodbye? To Vex?
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Not the first time. I was in a fucking hole, retrieving a friend of ours who'd fainted.
[ when vex died - the darkness of the sunken tomb is a memory that vax can recall for every detail, a perfect flash memory. ]
I came up to the surface, and she was dead.