Heedless of the people around them he pushed closer, not caring, tipping his head up to press his nose against the man's pale neck. He'd waited - he'd waited - Kaoru hadn't believed entirely, even though he trusted the man. The Bastion had only been days ago for him and yet it seemed as though it were an illusion.
"It's not a dream. This isn't a dream, you... you waited..." Years. Centuries. There was a whole millennium between them that had not seemed so long at all in the Bastion, because they had been there together. How that distance must have seemed to Seimei once he had returned home; how it must have yawned ahead of him.
"This is real, Seimei. We're real. The waiting is over, now, I'm here."
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Heedless of the people around them he pushed closer, not caring, tipping his head up to press his nose against the man's pale neck. He'd waited - he'd waited - Kaoru hadn't believed entirely, even though he trusted the man. The Bastion had only been days ago for him and yet it seemed as though it were an illusion.
"It's not a dream. This isn't a dream, you... you waited..." Years. Centuries. There was a whole millennium between them that had not seemed so long at all in the Bastion, because they had been there together. How that distance must have seemed to Seimei once he had returned home; how it must have yawned ahead of him.
"This is real, Seimei. We're real. The waiting is over, now, I'm here."