Nursed back to health

[pippilongsockings]

Nursed Back to Health Comment with your character, preferences, preferred role, and any information you'd like to include. Your character has either been injured/sick and had to be taken in (possibly against their will) or has been the one to help somebody like the former. Through the mending process, the two characters in a thread have fallen in love - or at least grown closer and more affectionate. Reply to others. Thread.

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[trebuchim]

No, I know. You're right. We don't yet know what's out there, the closer we get to the Monolith. Stands to reason the resistance will be stronger there. We can't afford to get overconfident.

[ She's usually the one championing thinking every step through, no variation. It's telling that she's letting herself get swept up with these daydreams. She's always believed in their expedition, but they all prepare to simply clear the way for the next one. It's dizzying to picture they might be able to reach higher than that. In a rare moment of openness, Lune confesses; ]

It's just... hard not to start getting hopeful. Actually hopeful, not just telling ourselves the things we need to in order to keep going.

[ It's been a long time since she's had any of that. Since Lumiere's had any of that. ]

You're probably right about that, too. [ She smiles wryly. Injuries were likely in store for all of them, but if she keeps getting stronger... she'll be able to fix all that. Rather than cracking another joke, she picks candid truth instead. ] Don't worry. I've got your back.

[demainvient]

I know. I have to stop myself with it, too. It's... it's what I've always hoped for.

[ Hope. He's never been able to wring it completely from himself, even in his most despairing moments. It was why he and Sophie disagreed so fundamentally about the future: he'd always, always believed their fate didn't have to be set in stone. He'd believed in the expeditions, what they learned, what they could do. ]

Like you said, a real chance. A real future.

[ Not just for those who come after, but maybe for them, too. A lifetime unrolling before Maelle, a chance for Lune to study what she wishes to her heart's content. And he...

He has his apprentices, his work. Maelle and Emma. Maybe, one day, he might even be able to look at a woman without seeing Sophie just behind her. He's still a young man, despite everything. There's so much more he'd like to do.

He meets her eyes, dark in the glimmering firelight, and nods. It almost seems like they don't even need words anymore, not for this. ]

I've got yours, too. We're a team, now.... and someone's got to watch your back all the way to the Monolith.

[ A beat, and then, more lightly: ] Keep you from getting distracted by the gestrals.