[OOC: Also I felt like it might be worth mentioning that this is my BGM.]
[Hearing her voice again - it pours water on the reality of the thought that he's died and clears it away like sand off a smooth stone.
In the moment, he simply is, with her again. He locks his eyes on hers, takes her hands, equals the pressure, holds the grip secure and is secured.
His mind isn't quiet. Some of its processes have him retracing his steps through his fight with and Shepard's pursuit of Kai Leng, through to the point where the sight of her and Kolyat (Kolyat. What's become of Kolyat?) standing beside his hospital bed has faded into a state of blindness.
But the fullest part of him is standing in the moment. Held there. By her. With her.
Feeling alive again.
One voice toward the back of his brain thanks Kalahira for it, whatever exactly it is, however long it lasts.
He is blessed for it.
Thane smiles faintly, a little ruefully.]
Complication pursues you, siha.
[Subtle warmth in his tone.]
But you are unhurt, then?
[The inflection is almost statement-like, but the question is implicit.
His expression starts to neutralize, voice starts to thin slightly. He blinks a couple of times rapidly, before...]
What happened? After I --
[ -- and he... cuts off there. His eyes momentarily flick down in the... distracting gap in knowing what to call it, now. What to say really did happen. What's happening now.]
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[Hearing her voice again - it pours water on the reality of the thought that he's died and clears it away like sand off a smooth stone.
In the moment, he simply is, with her again. He locks his eyes on hers, takes her hands, equals the pressure, holds the grip secure and is secured.
His mind isn't quiet. Some of its processes have him retracing his steps through his fight with and Shepard's pursuit of Kai Leng, through to the point where the sight of her and Kolyat (Kolyat. What's become of Kolyat?) standing beside his hospital bed has faded into a state of blindness.
But the fullest part of him is standing in the moment. Held there. By her. With her.
Feeling alive again.
One voice toward the back of his brain thanks Kalahira for it, whatever exactly it is, however long it lasts.
He is blessed for it.
Thane smiles faintly, a little ruefully.]
Complication pursues you, siha.
[Subtle warmth in his tone.]
But you are unhurt, then?
[The inflection is almost statement-like, but the question is implicit.
His expression starts to neutralize, voice starts to thin slightly. He blinks a couple of times rapidly, before...]
What happened? After I --
[ -- and he... cuts off there. His eyes momentarily flick down in the... distracting gap in knowing what to call it, now. What to say really did happen. What's happening now.]