( though it sounds strained and distant, there's a broken chuckle from anders' end. )
You must really think I'm not long for this world to make a request like... like that. And you'd be right. At least, it feels as much.
( dying in the same way twice, blind-sighted from behind. is this purgatory? is that all this place was ever meant to be for them? )
There's a lot of blood, Fenris. My healing— my magic. It's gone. ( there's a silence where he simply wheezes, then he remembers to continue. ) I have to wonder if I ever had it in the first place. If I could ever do any of those things I thought I could, if they were another memory.
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Date: 2023-01-24 01:02 am (UTC)You must really think I'm not long for this world to make a request like... like that. And you'd be right. At least, it feels as much.
( dying in the same way twice, blind-sighted from behind. is this purgatory? is that all this place was ever meant to be for them? )
There's a lot of blood, Fenris. My healing— my magic. It's gone. ( there's a silence where he simply wheezes, then he remembers to continue. ) I have to wonder if I ever had it in the first place. If I could ever do any of those things I thought I could, if they were another memory.
...
I shouldn't have used your name.
I should have been better to you.