[He'd put more into words but that-- To do so would make the loss loom large and real in his mind, make it harder to maintain what composure he's got and act, beyond this moment, as if things will be fine.
You call the things you name; you make them real, bring them closer to this worldline and the true shape of things. A mage knows that from the inside, and so Myr doesn't speak those things he can't bear the responsibility for realizing.]
--Oh, thank you, lady, [in nearly one breath. He doesn't quite lean into the touch and--as she surmises--doesn't need it to find his way beside her, but he's leaning on it all the same.] Thank you, I--
[a breath out; were things otherwise a part of him would cavil at the idea of arts that might require secrecy but then she'd ever been private and had her reasons to not trust the Inquisition, only hinted at.] --whatever I might do to help. You've that.
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Date: 2018-08-18 07:34 am (UTC)[He'd put more into words but that-- To do so would make the loss loom large and real in his mind, make it harder to maintain what composure he's got and act, beyond this moment, as if things will be fine.
You call the things you name; you make them real, bring them closer to this worldline and the true shape of things. A mage knows that from the inside, and so Myr doesn't speak those things he can't bear the responsibility for realizing.]
--Oh, thank you, lady, [in nearly one breath. He doesn't quite lean into the touch and--as she surmises--doesn't need it to find his way beside her, but he's leaning on it all the same.] Thank you, I--
[a breath out; were things otherwise a part of him would cavil at the idea of arts that might require secrecy but then she'd ever been private and had her reasons to not trust the Inquisition, only hinted at.] --whatever I might do to help. You've that.