“ Your pain is safe with me and I will stay with you longer than your sorrows if you let me. ” ( uhtred @ finan !! ) / @uhtr1d
" Uhtred, " he says, and it’s soft, it’s quiet, and there’s this — vastness around them. A shared comfort that comes from someone who almost knows him better than he knows himself despite knowing little about who he was, and that going both ways. Their bond goes far beyond friendship. It goes beyond being lovers, and that was before they even were. He doesn’t even know what to call it, but he knows it when he feels it. " I know. "
And it’s not dismissive: it’s gently emphatic, honest, and it comes with a haunt of a smile. He often fights the world with wit — sharp ( sometimes too sharp ), unafraid to goad, taking a certain glee in being a needle under the skin. He fights the world with a fearless strength, a ferocity in a fight, and an unrelenting spirit. He fights the world with a hearty sense of cheer and levity, quick to laugh and tease and try to drag others into it with him.
So rarely does he even allow himself to remember. He couldn’t, not when he was on the ship. Because then, memory was dangerous, because it allowed you despair, and that’s when you died; he was on that ship for so long that walling off everything before just became habit, became natural, became what he had to do to survive, and one doesn’t so easily let go of habits forged by survival.
He’s tired, and he leans against him. Or, at least, that’s what he tells himself — that letting his head loll to rest on his shoulder is just being tired, and isn’t at all about comfort. He’s not a good liar, even to himself. " Besides that, y’already have. Stayed with me longer. The damned fool that lost himself everythin’ died before he even got on that ship. " A finger playfully prods at his ribs. " You gave me hope again, you arsehole. Now yer stuck with me. "










