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THERE IS SOMETHING SO HEAVY in her chest she feels like it’s choking her out ; another kind of drowning, but his eyes are blue like the ocean, so maybe it’s a little bit of the same thing and ( quick, nott says, back when she was still nott, he’s got a heart condition, someone give him mouth to mouth ⸻ ) she thinks of her father leaving her mother, of twenty years of absence that could have been avoided if only just ⸻
she knows she loves him. she’d gotten drunk once and talked to vex and keyleth and pike all about it, more honest with them than she’d ever been with herself. shaun must have been tired of hearing caleb’s name at some point, but if he was, he never said so, and the burst of gratitude she feels even now is a solar flame. so she knows she loves him, the kind of love that burrowed under her skin for five years and when lucien was reaching through her chest to rip out her heart, vax’s hand just out of her reach, it was his voice, then caduceus’, which called her back, and well.
( and she’d given it up at some point, so what right does she have to demand it of him now, when he’s free of trent and of the assembly and essek looks at him like he’s hung all the fucking stars, what right does she have ?? )
@ariensoul, as caleb, asks, a smile at the corner of his mouth in the way it never fails to make her heart burst into a sprint ; the heavy thing in her chest grows gargantuan, inhales, lets her smile form in her mind’s eye before she slips it on, easy. reaches for his hand, then doesn’t. ❝ ah. you don’t have to do that just to make me feel better, cay-leb. ❞ something strained in her laugh, before her face clears, fingers fisting into her skirt, happy as ever, letting the knife slip between her ribs. it’s fine. she’s fine. then, out loud, ❝ i mean, if you wanna go buy paper and ink and stuff, i’ll go with you, but i’m fine, i promise. ❞
( she’s always been her father’s daughter after all. )
[ UPLIFT ]: sender, noticing the receiver has had a terrible day/s, invites them out on a date with the goal of making them feel happier.








