[He gets up and closes the distance between them in a few easy strides. Red might not react well to it but he wants to be there for him in more than just a distant way. He holds out his left hand for him to take and hold on to. If he'll take it.]
Dying is difficult. Ah, from experience it feels like...something breaks in your head. What you thought you knew. What you want. All these glittering shards of a crystal that...
[He shakes his head. The memories linger in his mind like morning fog. He had planned his death. He'd carried out the wounds on his person with a methodical precision and bore the pain he brought himself. It had been his own execution for all the despair he'd caused and what he had permitted himself to do.]
...I don't see you as weak or selfish. You're just a man, but one that chose not to fight anymore. I can't say much about Emizel. I'm always the lone representative of Peromei at council functions. But, if we disagreed on a matter...I would never attack you no matter how angry I was.
Maybe it's different for his kind! I don't know. I don't expect us to always agree. In fact I know you and I have had different opinions before! That's part of friendship, no, part of any relationship. Do you know how often I disagree with people close to me? Or how often the council argues? Some of those treaty sessions I imagined everyone in the room was five years old and banging on the table like little brats.
CW: suicide talk DR2 chapter 5 spoilers
Dying is difficult. Ah, from experience it feels like...something breaks in your head. What you thought you knew. What you want. All these glittering shards of a crystal that...
[He shakes his head. The memories linger in his mind like morning fog. He had planned his death. He'd carried out the wounds on his person with a methodical precision and bore the pain he brought himself. It had been his own execution for all the despair he'd caused and what he had permitted himself to do.]
...I don't see you as weak or selfish. You're just a man, but one that chose not to fight anymore. I can't say much about Emizel. I'm always the lone representative of Peromei at council functions. But, if we disagreed on a matter...I would never attack you no matter how angry I was.
Maybe it's different for his kind! I don't know. I don't expect us to always agree. In fact I know you and I have had different opinions before! That's part of friendship, no, part of any relationship. Do you know how often I disagree with people close to me? Or how often the council argues? Some of those treaty sessions I imagined everyone in the room was five years old and banging on the table like little brats.
...ah, sorry I got carried away. Please continue.