Dariz is Full, and I Desire a Walk in the Dark Together

Peace often times has to be fought for, over and over again, but it can also come from the simplicity of a night spent with the right company. It was strange, feeling grounded to someone, someone other than Bajie, someone other than the other gladiators, and in a way that was.. unique.

She knew from stories that the feelings that blossomed in her chest, the tightness that happened when she thought about having to give him back to the rest of the world in the day light, knew from the silly serials that she sometimes would borrow from others in the camps in Arlthan, that it was something deeper than just appreciation of a fellow soul. I say that, like I didn't spend over five thousand years asleep, tended to, shirking off the real world because it was too much. Time is much, much different for our kind, Ailwin, but I know had I not slept for as long as I did, I would have missed the chance to have met you.

There in the dark it was easier to speak freely, like they were able to in their letters, she didn't feel like she'd stumble over the words quite as much as she did when they were in the light. Words like theirs, were meant for the night, meant to be in hushed reverence, One of these days, I won't let the sun take you back to what you do, even if I know how important it is for you to be the one doing it. I don't think anyone else has the conviction to follow through on it. That was fact, it took a certain sort of person to realize what was bad in the world and strive to change it. Ailwin was that sort of person, and exactly why, even though she felt selfish, she knew that come dawn, she had to share him with the world once again.

@Ailwin