@victoryclaimedâ asked: â  you donât understand.  i need you safe.  not because i donât think you can handle yourself but because i canât focus on anything else if thereâs even the smallest possibility youâre in danger.  â from childe aaaaaa!!!!
Dominiqueâs protests were about to continue, lips parted as she turned to face the chausser directly before realizing just how close Childe had become to her. Leaning into her with hands reaching and cupping her face, until their foreheads were brushing against one another. Whatever cutting response she had died on her tongue, blush staining her cheeks before she could hope to smother it. Electricity seemed to crackle between them, gold eyes flickering from one blue iris to the other...
... noting in her embarrassment how they seemed to be void of light.
She swallowed, knowing that now wasnât the time to question him or veer off subject, not now. Not when she was so close to her brother after all this time; so close to finally reaching him and taking him back from whatever monster had kept him locked up away from her this entire time.
She swallowed, gloved fingers gripping onto his wrists as her expression darkened in determination. âChilde... Louis is being kept somewhere in there. You... You havenât seen how he looked when i last saw him.â She swallowed, still staring directly into his eyes. âHe needs me. I failed him once, and I refuse to fail him again. Iâm not going to sit back where itâs safe when heâs been tortured in there all this time -- Iâm going.â
Her fingers tightened their grip on his wrists, hoping that he could understand. That this small argument could be over, and they could move forward to do what they came to do. â-- Iâm not leaving here until I take my brother back myself. And if I get hurt doing so --- then so be it.â