[Week 21, Day 1] [Dream] In Desperation, We Climb

[misfortunesfool]

(Early morning, pre-dawn.)
WARNING: Disturbing imagery with children, though completely non-sexual.

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[hirac_utzum]

[Elfangor watches in horror, and in the back of his mind, he is numbly relieved that he was not touching his hitomi at the time.

It is wrong, wrong, that a child should have to endure this. Even knowing that war and other terrible things do not ever leave someone untouched just because they are a child--knows this for his own experience, his own actions--it still claws at his heart to see this, to know what pain he has endured... must still endure, because this. This loss of someone so close. It never truly leaves you. You can put on a smile and face each day, but there is still that sorrow clutching at your heart, just waiting for the opportunity to come to the surface once more.

He shouldn't be seeing this. It's too personal, too raw.

But he does not turn away, because that would be worse. That would be rejection, and he can't do that, because... because this man, he has come to be his friend, and he deserves better than that.]

[There is one other thing that stands out sharply in Elfangor's mind.

Fai. Yuui. His name is Yuui.

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[misfortunesfool]

[The problem with cultivating 'friendships' was, quite simply, that other people became concerned for you. Because they know you, or they know what you've allowed them to see, they feel some sense of empathy for you.

Which would be fine...if you deserved it.

(But you don't do you? Not by half.)

Even so...Elfangor's shown himself to Fai in so many ways now, unexpected and unlooked for and before he can quite stop himself, he find a little bit of truth slipping out...]

This was a long, long time ago and no... I never did reach him.

[Before the lie.]

He's still waiting though, trapped in a spell back in our adoptive world, Where my King guards his rest until I can find a way to safely wake th-him.