It isn't like before. It could never be the same — not as long as the gods here lack the power to bring us back together. But...
[He can wallow in misery all he likes. He can think of the future and envision a thousand different disasters, but that doesn't mean a single one of them will come to pass. He struggles to find words that don't ache to say, that aren't lies and desperation. Eventually he finds some.]
...but we can do our best to forge what we have left into something comparable. I was not meant to live my life without you, and so I won't. This world has done its best to pry us apart, but I will not allow it to sever us completely. We can take it one step at a time, and we can start here — this place that is ours alone.
[Theirs and the strays', at least. The cat is unbothered — until Diavolo shifts again to gesture at the building beside them.]
Would you like to go inside? It's... chilly out here.
[Sort of embarrassing to say aloud — a blow to the pride — but he has little choice in the matter.]
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[He can wallow in misery all he likes. He can think of the future and envision a thousand different disasters, but that doesn't mean a single one of them will come to pass. He struggles to find words that don't ache to say, that aren't lies and desperation. Eventually he finds some.]
...but we can do our best to forge what we have left into something comparable. I was not meant to live my life without you, and so I won't. This world has done its best to pry us apart, but I will not allow it to sever us completely. We can take it one step at a time, and we can start here — this place that is ours alone.
[Theirs and the strays', at least. The cat is unbothered — until Diavolo shifts again to gesture at the building beside them.]
Would you like to go inside? It's... chilly out here.
[Sort of embarrassing to say aloud — a blow to the pride — but he has little choice in the matter.]