Do spare me the dramatics, if you would. I get enough of that from Church.
[Whoever--whatever it was that was left now, in the wake of two thousand years' darkness and ten in a world of ruin, it wasn't the king of Lucis. Being met with formality now felt...annoying, more than it was unfitting.]
[So instead, he just reached out and took Junpei's hand with his own; deadened body temperature half-hidden under too many layers and fingerless gloves, but the ring that was once his birthright still in place.]
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[Whoever--whatever it was that was left now, in the wake of two thousand years' darkness and ten in a world of ruin, it wasn't the king of Lucis. Being met with formality now felt...annoying, more than it was unfitting.]
[So instead, he just reached out and took Junpei's hand with his own; deadened body temperature half-hidden under too many layers and fingerless gloves, but the ring that was once his birthright still in place.]
[Ten swords. One armiger.]
[For now, maybe that would be enough.]