[it's a long time, before he manages to say that-- he's busy taking everything in, truly listening to what thancred wants to say. thinking, once again, of how it felt to see him lie there nearly motionless (how it might feel again later, to see the same again.) i can't promise that the things i want won't destroy you, he says, and rynlan quietly thinks-- well, i've destroyed myself, too.]
But I think-- I think it might hurt me either way. To keep you, and to let you go. And if that's the case, if it happens both ways, then-- at least in one of them I still have you.
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[it's a long time, before he manages to say that-- he's busy taking everything in, truly listening to what thancred wants to say. thinking, once again, of how it felt to see him lie there nearly motionless (how it might feel again later, to see the same again.) i can't promise that the things i want won't destroy you, he says, and rynlan quietly thinks-- well, i've destroyed myself, too.]
But I think-- I think it might hurt me either way. To keep you, and to let you go. And if that's the case, if it happens both ways, then-- at least in one of them I still have you.