[It's all the incentive he needs to scoot in. Loop an arm - then both - around her. Only partly because she's damned warm and he still feels the cold from Solvunn. Or maybe the cold of the depths. However deep he'd fallen. Vague memories flick through his head - of Despoina. Do they count as even for that, now?]
[Maybe the water had been warm, but out here, in the wind, it's freezing for someone like him. What he wouldn't give for a sandblast from Cadens again.]
Freezing. [He grinds it out from a clenched jaw and low echos. Freezing and grateful to see the person who means the galaxy, the universe.] Glad to see you. [He hadn't wanted to admit it. Frankly, if he hadn't heard her devastating revelation before, the separation would have been bearable. He'd handled it as best one could, but knowing... if he'd missed time with...]
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[Maybe the water had been warm, but out here, in the wind, it's freezing for someone like him. What he wouldn't give for a sandblast from Cadens again.]
Freezing. [He grinds it out from a clenched jaw and low echos. Freezing and grateful to see the person who means the galaxy, the universe.] Glad to see you. [He hadn't wanted to admit it. Frankly, if he hadn't heard her devastating revelation before, the separation would have been bearable. He'd handled it as best one could, but knowing... if he'd missed time with...]
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