Got love for the people that have warned you

[itookashot]

WHO: Jesper Fahey and you!
WHAT: Catch-all for November, featuring inn renovations!
WHERE: Cadens, Nocwich, Horizon
WHEN: Throughout November
WARNINGS: NSFW for threads within





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[itookashot]

Jesper of all people would be encouraging, he doesn't believe in lingering too long. He understands people grieve and he would be devastated without Mat, but he also knows his lover and that he would feel the same way. Neither of them are possessive and they love each other too much. He still feels like it's important to say.

He climbs onto the bed and settles next to Mat, pulling his arm over his shoulder, curling to his side to look at him. He runs his fingers through Mat's dark hair, reminding himself all over again at the feel of it, of him. He's still here. Jesper kisses him sweetly, brushing his thumb along his cheekbone before reaching down to take his hand and hold it.

"I'm sorry about Anakin, love. Did he tell you anything about where he was when he was taken?" AKA did he mention being dead? Kind of important.

[a_better_man]

Mat shakes his head.

"He didn't say anything that has me too worried." As far as he knows, Anakin had a life to go back to. An angry life in outer space, but...that's something. Better than some he's known and lost here.

"I just miss him." Missing, not mourning. There is a difference, and one isn't quite as painful as the other.

"He always believed in me, you know. He could be a right arse about it, sometimes, but he did."

[itookashot]

Missing and not mourning was the detail he was looking for. It's a different kind of pain to know they've gone somewhere none of them can follow. Jesper doesn't know if there's an afterlife, let alone a group afterlife. Inej mourned Matthias a second time since he was here and gone.

"You gave him good reason to believe in you, love. You were his friend when he didn't have many." Now that at least Jesper is certain of. Anakin wasn't particularly social here, he wasn't Mr. Popular. And he seemed distant when he spoke of his home. Having a friend like Mat would help anyone feel less alone.

"Were there other people in Thorne who lost him too? It could be good, to miss him together."