catpiper: (wheeze la wheeze)
Ren "Renothy Cat" ([personal profile] catpiper) wrote in [community profile] lifeaftr 2020-02-02 09:37 pm (UTC)

[His happiness is her priority. A feeling he's admitted to being unable to have over and over and over again, but-

She wants to keep trying. If she can't get him to talk, then she can sit here and take care of him and hope those small, comforting gestures are enough to convince him to speak. To live.

She won't ever give up on him.

That kindness and care he's shown her over the years means something. The efforts he puts towards making people happy and comfortable on the island mean something. The suffering and pain he went through in his life-it means something and-

She doesn't say anything else-just strokes his hair and tries to remember how the elves used to make hot soup. It's going to be hard to cook on her own, but she'll try gathering enough ingredients to make something easy on his stomach. Try to keep glasses of water cold enough to help his fever without magic and-

She can't save him-not if he doesn't want it, but she can take care of him. Make sure nothing hurts him. Try to keep him from being in more pain than necessary, so-

If he wants to sleep, she'll let him, and she'll be there whenever he wakes up, whether it's a few hours or a few days.
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