[ It's like looking into a mirror, the resignation in his eyes is so familiar to her.
Ah, what good is a sword that can't save those she cares about? Or for all of its supposed abilities, not be able to right a wrong, prevent a tragedy, to protect? If his discipe is just going to kill him anyway, it doesn't matter if the sword exists or not in the first place. Yes indeed, this conversation has taken quite a sad, sudden turn, undoing all that had come before it.
How can he smile when he says that, too? Does he expect her to just go browsing back to books after telling her that?
So just as he turns back to the shelves she reaches for-- the sleeve of his robes, and just... Was she about to say something? She was about to say something, but maybe it doesn't matter what she says either, just like it doesn't matter what she is or who wields her or if she's actually here or not.
But in this moment, she.... yes, she wants to be here, right here, to hold onto his sleeve as he's turned away, because she knows that he might not be here within any given moment.
Because holding onto that person's sleeve as he turned away for the last time was something she never was able to do, and then? And then he was gone. ] ....Don't.
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Ah, what good is a sword that can't save those she cares about? Or for all of its supposed abilities, not be able to right a wrong, prevent a tragedy, to protect? If his discipe is just going to kill him anyway, it doesn't matter if the sword exists or not in the first place. Yes indeed, this conversation has taken quite a sad, sudden turn, undoing all that had come before it.
How can he smile when he says that, too? Does he expect her to just go browsing back to books after telling her that?
So just as he turns back to the shelves she reaches for-- the sleeve of his robes, and just... Was she about to say something? She was about to say something, but maybe it doesn't matter what she says either, just like it doesn't matter what she is or who wields her or if she's actually here or not.
But in this moment, she.... yes, she wants to be here, right here, to hold onto his sleeve as he's turned away, because she knows that he might not be here within any given moment.
Because holding onto that person's sleeve as he turned away for the last time was something she never was able to do, and then? And then he was gone. ] ....Don't.