[ ( How he wished, once, that someone would have said those words to him. )
Rudbeckia lunges into his arms, and as he had below the Tree, he lifts her into them and draws her feet from the ground below. Strong of arm and sheltering of limb, as he tucks his face into the crook of her neck and breathes in the scent of her hair. ]
You were asked to survive impossible situations again, and again. The world has set you up for failure and pain, but that ends with me. Meridian, Zenith, your past — I will not leave you to be devoured by any of it. You must live. You have the right to live how you need to, until the day you can live how you want to, my Ruby.
[ Even if that day never comes, it will not change them. ]
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[ ( How he wished, once, that someone would have said those words to him. )
Rudbeckia lunges into his arms, and as he had below the Tree, he lifts her into them and draws her feet from the ground below. Strong of arm and sheltering of limb, as he tucks his face into the crook of her neck and breathes in the scent of her hair. ]
You were asked to survive impossible situations again, and again. The world has set you up for failure and pain, but that ends with me. Meridian, Zenith, your past — I will not leave you to be devoured by any of it. You must live. You have the right to live how you need to, until the day you can live how you want to, my Ruby.
[ Even if that day never comes, it will not change them. ]