Drabble Update
For GraGoh Week 2021! Altered Minds prompt because 4/20 :) @gragohweek
https://archiveofourown.org/works/28032549/chapters/76033970
His mind has changed so many times in these last thousand trine. Torn asunder. Torn. Alterations – choices that created a new mindset, stitched together like a new cloak, then cemented with a single nail.
Thinking was painful for an age – it can be, still, but all things fade with time. So, too, does the sting. Perhaps it is because he no longer fights against what has happened. The stitching. It occurred naturally, a bi-product of their proximity – the enmeshment of minds. He sometimes sees their tower room from a different perspective – through his own eyes and through another’s. It is dizzying, the overlapping vision. And is the tower a sanctuary or a cage? His opinion on that blurs – and which one was his to begin with? His thoughts… they are fleeting. They sometimes leave his head only to be completed by his other half. These days, it is common for them to finish each other’s sentences.
They’ve grown back together – not exactly of one mind, yet, but definitely not of two.
There are days when he wants to return to the Castle to try to change more minds, but they are few. urGoh’s reminder stops his baser urges to resort to force. Change can only occur for a willing mind, after all, and the minds back in the Castle and sequestered in the Valley are so altered, still, that there is no use in trying to stitch them back together.