thanks to everyone who left me a nice comment on that previous post - today was my first time revisiting this comic after two months. here's to hoping i can finish it soon
bad dream | rota fortunae au wip; for a mutual.
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"Veritas," a familiar voice rang out, tantalisingly close. "Won't you open your eyes?"
Ratio blinked open, and felt pinpricks of tears along the corner of his eyes.
Vibrant pink and teal (not red, why would they be red?) eyes greeted his vision, full of life and mirth (of course, as they would be, why would they not?), curved upwards in a all-too-familiar smile on an all-too-familiar face.
"It's you," Ratio whispered, swallowing around the lump of emotions in his throat; sharp and prickling. "It's really you?"
Aventurine blinked, before laughing, loud and amused (and how he ached to hear it again, selfishly), before brushing a hand carelessly across Ratio's eyes.
"Of course it's me," Aventurine tucked a loose strand of hair behind Ratio's ear, his fingertips brushing against the shell. "Why wouldn't it be?"
Ratio grabbed the hand slowly carding through his hair and pressed it against his cheek, his fingers trembling as he squeezed, feeling the warm give of human flesh, bone, and blood thrumming and pulsing through veins, alive, proof of life.
"I had a terrible dream," he murmured into the palm of Aventurine's hand. "I… I dreamt I lost you, and… and I couldn't bring you back."
He squeezed his eyes shut, hearing Aventurine's soft gasp before a tender kiss was pressed to his head; warm, familiar, familiar, warm, alive.
"Oh Veritas," he heard Aventurine mumble into his hair, his thumb brushing over Ratio's closed eyelids. "That sounds terrible."
"It was," Ratio confessed, his voice cracking at the end. "I… don't want to imagine a world without you."
He felt Aventurine exhale, warm arms wrapping around his shoulders as Aventurine settled into his embrace, warm, familiar, familiar, warm, cold, steel, aluminium, the low hum of electricity and moving parts.
Ratio gasped awake, his hand instinctively darting out to reach for the warm body that had imprinted itself by his side, flinching when his hand glanced against cold titanium instead.
Hello!! I have an urgent comm opening!! I will not go into details publicly, but my situation is quite dire at the moment so anything helps! I will update my VGen to have non-chibi services soon :)
