[ His fingers instinctively tighten against the larger man, a grip into his shoulder, a hand around his wrist. Curled together like this, he could be seen β mistaken β for a softer man, for someone who sought comfort in the arms of someone who understood him in that way. Is it? It feels as if his heart beats alongside his, for at least this half-second.
They could not be more different, perhaps. Vergilius has a soft heart wracked with guilt, he can see it, the shape of what keeps him distant; whereas Silco's heart is a gaping hole, spiked and trapped like anyone who peers too deep in would be caught and stuck, unable to pull free without ripping something of themselves free in the process. He would always cause pain, even inadvertent.
It feels something like an inevitability, that their children are so matched, these precious little things that they want to protect by any means necessary, care for despite the forces in their way. Silco can see the shape of their similarities β project, even β and how they're making some odd structure between the places where they meet up. Cutting each other in the process, maybe making something out of what they cut off. ]
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They could not be more different, perhaps. Vergilius has a soft heart wracked with guilt, he can see it, the shape of what keeps him distant; whereas Silco's heart is a gaping hole, spiked and trapped like anyone who peers too deep in would be caught and stuck, unable to pull free without ripping something of themselves free in the process. He would always cause pain, even inadvertent.
It feels something like an inevitability, that their children are so matched, these precious little things that they want to protect by any means necessary, care for despite the forces in their way. Silco can see the shape of their similarities β project, even β and how they're making some odd structure between the places where they meet up. Cutting each other in the process, maybe making something out of what they cut off. ]
Hm. [ An affected sigh. ] No other choice.
Not a choice I would take, regardless.