â i know we need to keep moving, but i am not like you. this is all very new to me, and i canât keep going as long. â as simon softens, so does alistair, like mirror images. their hands fit together nicely, and alistair canât deny â despite all their fights, despite everything, thereâs no one heâd rather have at his side.Â
   â you already saved my life. you owe me nothing more, but i appreciate the sentiment. â what goes unsaid â  â i wouldnât make it out here without you. â alistair knows he needs simon. it is not a much of a curse as he thought it would be. he actually likes teasing and the fighting, most of the time, and then . . . there are these moments, little times like this, when alistair thinks simon could be sunshine personified, where alistair forgets about all their arguments and feels something warm in his chest.Â
   â no, i donât think iâm ready for daemons. â he laughs, smiles wide and bright.  â yes, letâs do this together. iâll take care of you too. â
âThereâs a rest stop with a broken down RV they use as a motel room not far from here. We can stop there.â He blushes a little, eyes averting. Sometimes Alistair smiles so bright he looks like the sun. Itâs not fair, really, especially when Simon melts so easily because of that smile.
It takes another fifteen minutes, but Simon does pull them up right next to the RV. Itâs dimly lit, but enough to keep the daemons away. This would have to suffice. âI know youâre not used to staying in places like this, but itâll have to do.â Simon is the one with the gil, he assumes, since he ventured out of Insomnia more often than Alistair.Â
He pays the man for use of the whole RV then motions for Alistair to follow him. Once theyâre inside, Simon groans. âMy everything is sore, honestly. Iâll admit...sleeping in a bed will be nice.â He removes his prosthetic arm and sets it on the floor next to the bed. Gently starts rubbing at his stump. âDamn it, I wish Iâd had the time to pack voltaren gel.â Â