I can’t take it!!! I can’t!!! I need Sun to sneak back into Nexus’ dimension, without Moon knowing. Finding Nexus in a wasteland miles wide, where the pretty forest used to be. Catching him at just the right time when he’s mellow enough not to attack immediately. Sun would bring a picnic. Not to convince him of anything, not to get forgiven then leave again. Just to be with Nexus. Maybe they play a card game, with Sun sometimes having to leave halfway through because the voices get too aggressive and Nexus starts to collapse on himself again. But, slowly, Nexus starts looking forward to Sun’s visits, and Sun can’t wait to go to Nexus’ peaceful dimension after the end of a long day.
Every time Sun comes back, Nexus has something new he made. A grass doll. A clay pot. A basket made out of willow. Projects that took him weeks to make. Projects that he destroyed over and over in the name of the void when his frustrations got high. Sun brings more food, blankets. Nexus likes it best when he reads novels to him.
And then, Nexus slips. He’s hanging out with Sun, when he shows a picture of Daisy and Earth to him. He’s reminded of the afterlife, of Earth, of his fate to be stuck. here forever. And he gets mad. Furious, even. He screams, knocking over fir trees and smashing his projects into pieces. He stomps around, all claws and teeth and destruction. It lasts hours.
But, unlike before, Sun is still there. Untouched by Nexus’ rampage. Arms outstretched. And Nexus collapses into his touch and cries.
