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Kell (K.L.) ([personal profile] londonbridged) wrote in [community profile] ruinations 2018-04-05 04:02 am (UTC)

If it was selfish to enjoy touch, then they both were.

Kell half-shut his eyes, felt the shift of her feelings over his, how closely they dovetailed. Kell was the sort of man often shut off from others, but he was no stranger to loving someone, and when he did, he did so wholly and unafraid.

Perhaps he did not define it so clearly as others might, but he felt it all the same.

As Kell settled to listen, he understood the words, but it was the emotions that rolled through Neria that told the real story. He could not understand the source of the hopeless, powerless fear and deep seated pain, but-

"What is the purpose of that?" he asked. "Breaking you down, making you unlike yourselves?"

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