Away with the faeries..

From the book Der Heuschreck und die Blumen.

⟢ "You're not afraid of me." - "Should I be." - "Most people are." - "I'm not most people." - "No. You really aren't."

⟢ "I've been alive for three hundred years and you're the first thing in a very long time that felt like a reason."

⟢ "What are you." - "Dangerous." - "To me specifically." - "...no. Not to you. Never to you."

⟢ "I don't have a heartbeat." - "I know." - "That doesn't bother you." - "Your hands are warm. Nothing else matters."

⟢ "I've watched civilizations fall. I've watched everything end and begin again. I have never once felt like this."

⟢ "You should run." - "From you?" - "From what I am." - "What you are is currently making me coffee. I think I'll stay."

⟢ "I'm not human." - "I know." - "You've always known." - "Since the beginning." - "And you stayed." - "And I stayed."

⟢ "I've done terrible things." - "Before me." - "Yes." - "Are you going to do them again." - "Not if I can help it." - "Then we're okay."

⟢ "You smell like—" - "If you finish that sentence I'm leaving." - "—home. I was going to say home."

⟢ "I've been pretending to be human for so long I forgot what it felt like to just... be. Until you."

⟢ "What happens when you get angry." - "You don't want to know." - "I'm still here aren't I." - "...yes. You are."

⟢ "I can hear your heartbeat." - "What does it sound like." - "Right now? Terrified." - "Right now? Yeah." - "Of me." - "Of how much I—yeah. Of you adjacent things."

⟢ "You're immortal." - "Yes." - "What do you do with someone like me." - "I don't know. I've never wanted to before."

⟢ "I've eaten kings. I want you to know that before this goes further." - "Noted. Were they terrible kings." - "Mostly." - "Then we're fine."

⟢ "I don't know how to do this. Any of this. I've never—" - "Neither have I." - "You're human." - "And you're not. We're both figuring it out."

⟢ "Stay." - "I always leave eventually." - "Stay anyway." - "You'd age. You'd—" - "Stay with me anyway."

⟢ "I can feel everything you feel." - "Everything?" - "Every single thing." - "That's—" - "Overwhelming? Yes. Worth it? Also yes."

⟢ "You're the most dangerous thing I've ever encountered." - "I'm making you soup." - "The most dangerous thing I've ever encountered is making me soup and I don't know what to do with that."

⟢ "I've loved people before. I've watched them die. I swore I wouldn't do it again." - "And." - "And then there was you. And I'm apparently a fool regardless of how many centuries I've had to learn better."

⟢ "What do you want from me." - "Nothing you haven't already given." - "Which is." - "Everything. You've already given me everything and I don't think you even noticed."

⟢ "You make me want to be something worth being."

⟢ "I will still be here long after you're gone. I want you to know I've already decided that's worth it. You're worth the grief of it."