[ It's simple, and solemn, and in the next breath from one impossible-to-promise question to an impossible-to-promise answer. Even with the softness of her voice and the silence of the darkened room around them, there's a fierceness undercutting its feet, too. A solid steel refusal to let anything or anyone pull them apart again. Even if they're all at the mercy of another monster—or god, or both; so often it both more than either or—here, too. ]
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[ It's simple, and solemn, and in the next breath from one impossible-to-promise question to an impossible-to-promise answer. Even with the softness of her voice and the silence of the darkened room around them, there's a fierceness undercutting its feet, too. A solid steel refusal to let anything or anyone pull them apart again. Even if they're all at the mercy of another monster—or god, or both; so often it both more than either or—here, too. ]
So much as I can and as long as I can.