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“The rumors had an advantage this time… they were surprised to see me, but they received my visit well. I simply told them I was going to see you, which isn’t a lie. Plus, Caitlyn would back me up if I needed it.” The girl laughs. She suddenly feels at home again, as if they’re back at the Institute and as if every weight has been lifted off her shoulders.
“I wanted to see you again. It’s been so long. I was worried about you, although I heard of your presentation… what you discovered in the Piltovian mines. You know, that huge dragon’s remains.” A smirk is planted on her face. “I’m proud of you… and…
I just miss you.”
The room, and the entire house, really, feels about seven degrees warmer and ten times more comfortable with Lux in it. He doesn’t let go of her wrists. Instead he secures his grip all the more tight, the pads of his thumbs tracing over the carvings in her brilliant, argent-colored armor.
He doesn’t know what those carvings mean. He’s never asked. He assumes they’re just detailing, but it’s altogether possible they could mean something more. Something important.
“You came to see me?” His brows furrow. His head lightly tilts to the side just like it always has. He’s surprised and yet not surprised all at once. He catches a hint of her scent; vanilla and rain. The nostalgia makes him sigh, but he veils it with a shake of his blonde strands and a pair of closed oceanic eyes. He keeps them closed as he finally slips his deft fingers away from her wrists and instead tugs her in for an embrace. His nose presses into the thin ivory fabric with gold filigree that covers her shoulder.
He breathes in. His heart stills. If she missed him so much and came all this way, there’s only one logical explanation for what to do, right?
“Stay with me, then.” he mumbles, giving her body a very gentle squeeze as if to prove to himself that she’s there. Physically with him. For once, she’s not a letter or a passing word out of another’s mouth. She’s there.
“Stay. You can see the excavation for yourself.”
