Azriel after Gwyn
This is my first time posting proper fanfiction EVER. Even though I'm not very active on this site I really really appreciate everything I'm able to read, see and feel. In this world of AI generated e-mails and lives (I've sadly become a part of it), this is my small rebellion, that no matter how hard things get - it's works of the heart and mind that'll get you through.
I'd also like to thank all the fanfiction writers who have made my miserable times a little more bearable. I hope you have all the things you ever dreamed about. This is more of a dedication to this world.
I'd appreciate any constructive criticism. I don't know what I plan to do after this but I hope this gives you the moment of peace that I envisioned it would.
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Itâs in these quiet mornings that Azriel feels like heâs looking from the outside. A winged male whose deep breathing indicates the kind of sleep you only get after a night of peace and love. A redhead with a soft smile curled around this male. Itâs a picture of peaceful mornings.Â
Heâs surprised itâs so easy, so easy to fall asleep. So easy to spend a day in this bed and still feel like not leaving. Mostly heâs surprised that the love heâs been searching for all his life is right here, next to him. Heâll have to get up though. But she can sleep in and when she finally awakens his heart too will.Â
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In the nights when sleep is close, she holds his hands and never lets go. He thinks it helps ground her when she has nightmares, but he still canât believe something so horrendous can bring so much peace.Â
When sheâs bored, she traces out the scars like she wishes she could undo the hurt. She traces it with reverence and awe, refusing to let him cover it -even if he tried. Sheâs always looking for reasons to hold it, touch it.Â
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Azriel considered training to be a sacred place with strict regimes, the training ring was the place where resilience would be built, where he spent his sleepless nights all alone in the misery of his thoughts.Â
With her, it transforms. Itâs an even more sacred place. He sees a lot of her smiles here, he likes the one she shows when sheâs proved him wrong. But sheâs never proved him wrong. He knows that she can do anything if she puts that fierce mind into it. But nevertheless heâll rile her up, just for a glance of that smile.
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Hating Illyria has been so easy for him. But coming here with her, when she sees only the good this place has to offer, he finds it harder. She sings the lullabies and all at once he loves these tunes that used to remind him of a harder time. She finds the gruelling winter so beautiful but he canât seem to understand how anything is beautiful next to her.Â
Sheâs making snow angels. Sheâs holding the fallen snow with marvel and wonder. All of a sudden he canât for the life of him understand why he hated this place.Â
She sees only improvements in this sorry excuse of a place. Sheâs helping them. Heâs been around for centuries and sheâs already done something he could never imagine for this place. He can do better and for her he should, only to be worthy of the love that she shows for every part of him. Even the parts he hates.Â
But after her, he realises, he has nothing he hates about his life or himself.







