There’s still much he wants to do and so much he still wants to see. Until recent he wasn’t living for himself and even now that he had found someone to pour his entire heart into there had been a new sense of self that grew beneath the surface. A small bit of selfishness that blossomed into something he couldn’t refuse or push back.
A weak gasp then as he grasps that man’s hand, fingers smeared in blood that was his own and no other’s. The look of recognition crosses Sya’s freckled features and his eyes widen as he realizes the gravity of what has come to pass. The mad corruption that had possessed him to cut short many lives had also led him to stab that same blade through his lover, an act that Galen wasn’t particularly upset about. No, the pain itself had even gone numb for he could see that the dravanian had returned to normal. That was all he could have asked for.
Yet there’s still all that which they promised to do together and all that which he still desires to experience. Even as he whispers a weak ‘I’m glad’ through his exhaustion and although he turns the corners of his lips upwards in a smile there is a deep rooted regret in his jade eyes. One that silently pleads with the gods for more time, just a bit more, as his time with his beloved was already to be so short in comparison to the elder male’s lifespan.
It was something they’d spoke of many times before, even. That a child of Ishgard could circumvent some restrictions of man by relinquishing that very same humanity. Galen had been more than ready even then to throw away those things for the sake of love and yet Syabelth at the time had refused. That, then, was why his eyes widened ever so slightly as his tearful mate bit down on his own wrist and pressed the wound against the Elezen’s mouth. The taste of iron and what could only be dragonflame burned in his mouth and yet he did his best to drink it down recalling in the back of his mind other heretics whom which he had fought, whose wounds had closed as their forms shifted from their mortal bodies.
Still, it burned. Bloodied hands grasped at his lover’s arms as he made to endure it, not sure how much was necessary to provoke the change. It burned but that burning meant eternity, did it not? Or at the very least time beyond what they would have otherwise. Even if it meant giving up the rest of the bonds he’d built over these years it would be okay, for they’d still be together like this. Even...
Again Galen felt there was something he should say, anything perhaps to calm the panicked Syabelth as he felt himself brought close once more to the man’s chest. His entire body, his blood burned with the blood dragon’s fire and that heat was what brought the darkness of sleep before he could speak again, breathing growing ever steadier as his body healed, though burning with a fever that meant he would no longer be the same.