#surely.

maddened monk ---

A boy took a cup and shattered it against the ground. he refused to look at it again; the prince refused to look at the pieces of black clay he left on the floor. No matter if he bled on the shards. He did not look at them.

He had fun with the cup, beforehand. He praised its shape, he praised its form. He lied. He made the cup believe itself worthy of something.

You cannot put back the cup together. The shards desire to pierce skin. To bleed you out.

You will shatter many cups more, you will find many little porcelain dolls to break, yes,

But I do not forget, sellsword, I do not forget. And by sea, and by air, and by earth, I will track down the brilliant red star of your heart,

And I will shatter it as you did with my soul. In the threads of blood above the sky I will hunt you down, and every new doll you get I shall infect, I shall curse, I shall bleed out into mattresses like the plague you brought into my chest.

Even if Arthur does live (surely), those words and those moments will still have happened. it’s brought them as close together as they can possibly be, and that’s what they need. There’s no way in hell Kayne can break them apart or make them fight after this.

and he’s been trying to make them fight pretty much as long as we’ve known him. always poking and prodding at both of them and making deals with one behind the other’s back and Everything. Trying to get them to split apart, even promising them the split as a reward. makes me wonder if He wants them split, that he wasn’t just messing with them but actually saw something or realized that the only way he can be stopped is if the two of them are inseparably bonded.