Sorey drops to his knees, grabbing Dezel and hauling him up against his chest, as if he could pull him inside of himself if he just held on tightly enough.] Dezel, quick, if you can you have to reinstate the pact. Can you connect it again? [The malevolence here is too thick; it'll be a constant cycle of purification, and Dezel won't survive that, not in the condition he's in. The sooner he can rest in Sorey's domain, the better.
And. Yeah. Sorey's not clutching him this tight just for Dezel's sake. He can still remember how it felt, how Dezel had been ripped right off of his soul to make that attack, how he'd left with a breath and a whisper of goodbye and how it had taken everything Sorey had to actually pull that trigger. He's never let go of that. Not guilt, not a disrespect for Dezel's decisions, but regret, god, so much regret. If there just could have been another way- If he could have done something different, then maybe Dezel would've...]
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Sorey drops to his knees, grabbing Dezel and hauling him up against his chest, as if he could pull him inside of himself if he just held on tightly enough.] Dezel, quick, if you can you have to reinstate the pact. Can you connect it again? [The malevolence here is too thick; it'll be a constant cycle of purification, and Dezel won't survive that, not in the condition he's in. The sooner he can rest in Sorey's domain, the better.
And. Yeah. Sorey's not clutching him this tight just for Dezel's sake. He can still remember how it felt, how Dezel had been ripped right off of his soul to make that attack, how he'd left with a breath and a whisper of goodbye and how it had taken everything Sorey had to actually pull that trigger. He's never let go of that. Not guilt, not a disrespect for Dezel's decisions, but regret, god, so much regret. If there just could have been another way- If he could have done something different, then maybe Dezel would've...]