[ Ezar looks up, confused, and then hesitantly opens his arms to her. But it will feel good, he thinks, to hold onto her.
He swallows hard and tries to take a mental step back, to consider the question the same way he thought had before. ]
I think... you're as part of him as he is of you, and it's never been at any sort of doubt for him, even when he didn't know at all how you felt. He needs you so much he built you a city and broke time itself for you. You give him a home and a belonging when it's plain to see he's spent most his life lonely even though it hasn't made him bitter, just more giving. And he thinks if he gives enough of himself, it'll be a wall to protect you and the world.
[ But what any of that has to do with him, he either doesn't know, doesn't see, or doesn't want to see. He'd have an equally different time trying to explain why the hell Summer seems to like him, too. ]
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He swallows hard and tries to take a mental step back, to consider the question the same way he thought had before. ]
I think... you're as part of him as he is of you, and it's never been at any sort of doubt for him, even when he didn't know at all how you felt. He needs you so much he built you a city and broke time itself for you. You give him a home and a belonging when it's plain to see he's spent most his life lonely even though it hasn't made him bitter, just more giving. And he thinks if he gives enough of himself, it'll be a wall to protect you and the world.
[ But what any of that has to do with him, he either doesn't know, doesn't see, or doesn't want to see. He'd have an equally different time trying to explain why the hell Summer seems to like him, too. ]