@abysswarden asked: " i hate being in other peoples' debts. " :*) / PROMPTS FOR PEOPLE WHO AREN'T USED TO KINDNESS: still accepting.
"What? You really still on about that?" Good lord. "It's like I've been telling you: you're worse than a mule." Better yet, worse than an itch after crawling through eves! Huffing out a breath, Henry, sweating pools by the furnace, wipes at his nape half-burned with the season. He knows he's all chivalry, this black-bannered champion with his face still veiled, but having his back in that row some weeks ago? It'd been nothing. And dear lord, had he a little more selfishness, he'd know that, too. "I told you already," he starts again. Tink, tink. "It's not at all like that." Clang, clang. No. "I didn't go doing what I did so you can go on rambling about repaying some favor. You'd have done the same for me, and I'm betting that, I am." Henry's hammer stills. He looks. So... "Does it got to be complicated?" he wonders aloud.
Maybe. How long has he journeyed all alone, he muses? Perhaps for fortnights. Months and years. Long enough.
