We won't be trapped like this forever. [He squeezed Church's hand lightly, a reflection of the sharp determination creeping into his voice.]
If I am right, we may have found a way out of this once. That means it can be done, and will be done if there should even be the faintest thread of possibility leading to an ending that sees us out of this place.
[Return as you were, echoed a voice in his head, a kind and noble king-!]
[The man who drew his sword against an ageless blood-drinker and stood ready to sacrifice himself for the good of others, who launched himself at Church and Nari barking the orders of a healer's expertise, who felt compulsion after compulsion to stand and help rather than shrug pain and misery off as an inevitability of life...was coming to the surface, gradually.]
[It was a king who looked at Church with gold eyes burning with determination and scowled defiantly in the face of the chance of near-certain death.]
You were someone I trusted. Someone I think I would trust even now when 'trust' itself rings as naught but a risk to my ears. So I need you with me that we might keep one another from breaking apart, long enough to see this finished and Xander's superiors paid in blood for what they've done.
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If I am right, we may have found a way out of this once. That means it can be done, and will be done if there should even be the faintest thread of possibility leading to an ending that sees us out of this place.
[Return as you were, echoed a voice in his head, a kind and noble king-!]
[The man who drew his sword against an ageless blood-drinker and stood ready to sacrifice himself for the good of others, who launched himself at Church and Nari barking the orders of a healer's expertise, who felt compulsion after compulsion to stand and help rather than shrug pain and misery off as an inevitability of life...was coming to the surface, gradually.]
[It was a king who looked at Church with gold eyes burning with determination and scowled defiantly in the face of the chance of near-certain death.]
You were someone I trusted. Someone I think I would trust even now when 'trust' itself rings as naught but a risk to my ears. So I need you with me that we might keep one another from breaking apart, long enough to see this finished and Xander's superiors paid in blood for what they've done.