QUASIPLATONICROMANTIC NOT-MESS

[chanteuser]

i'm still wheezing y'all

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[antaressnipe]

Alex.

[chanteuser]

... I don't want to see you put yourself on the line like this.

[antaressnipe]

And you know why I am offering regardless.

[She more than anyone knows why.]

[chanteuser]

I do, but...

[ she sighs, heavily. ] I don't have to like it, or want you to go through with it.

[antaressnipe]

... Do you know what memory was granted back to me?

[A faint smile]

That I have died twice already. The first time by poison -- I managed a year and a half before the pain overtook me.

... No matter how I die here, if I do, it will not be worse than that agony.

[chanteuser]

[ shhheeeee hates this. ]

But if we mess up, then you're gone. Permanently.

[antaressnipe]

[... His smile doesn't die.

It just turns sad]

[chanteuser]

I don’t want that.

[antaressnipe]

[... Reaching for her, so he can grasp her hand]

I do not want it, either.

... But I do not think I would be me if I did not at least offer myself in the place of others.

[chanteuser]

[ she grips his hand with a lot more force than one would probably expect from someone her size ]

I said to Jeanne she was too good for her own good sometimes. Is this just something all of you Heroic Spirits do?

[antaressnipe]

Do we...? Perhaps.

[He cannot remember that, either.

... But still, his hand squeezes hers, both an apology and a gesture of fondness before he brings it to his lips, kissing her knuckles]

I can only promise I will not die senselessly, and will spend as much time with you all these upcoming days.

[chanteuser]

[ she squeezes his hand once he's kissed her knuckles. ]

Please.

I don't want us to ruin this chance to fix everything, but I don't want us to just... put our necks out for someone to strike completely unnecessarily.