#reflections tag

Reflections of Lost Stars

Category: M/M

Character(s): Nihlus Kryik, Saren Arterius, Commander Shepard

Pairing(s): Kryterius

Summary: After Sovereign's attack on the Citadel, Saren Arterius is captured and detained by Commander Shepard. He's later released into the custody of Spectre agent Nihlus Kryik, who plans to use that as an opportunity to study the effects of prolonged Reaper indoctrination... And maybe to see if the man he loves is still in there somewhere.

Yes I know it's been a while (a YEAR), but Chapter 5 is out now!!

Excerpt/sneak peek:

Alone. Every time Nihlus steps out of his sight, Saren can feel that cotton fill up his lungs from the inside out. Loneliness is suffocating. He needs Nihlus to stay close. He needs him right there, needs someone, because he can't be alone. He can't. His own thoughts echo in his mind too loudly, bouncing off the empty edges of the space Sovereign used to take up. If silence is a straightjacket, then loneliness is a noose. One can contain him and make him go mad, but the other could end his life entirely. He fears it. He fears the sting of loneliness, the empty space in his head and the empty space in his bed. Sovereign is not there. Nihlus is not there. He misses one or the other, or perhaps both. He misses their presence in his life. The two relationships that have defined him as a turian for the past two decades are seemingly both over, and now he's alone. Again. Every night, he looks into the right side bedroom, across the hall, where Nihlus sleeps. Out of sight but never out of mind.  Every night, he reaches into the corners of his conscious mind, searching for any remains of Sovereign's presence. Nothing. Nothing. Always nothing. If Saren isn't mad yet, he certainly will be soon.