Oh, I would never dare compete with Scratch. I know how much you like him. I understand very much that he is your favourite.
[It wasn't what she wanted to say at all. She wanted to reassure him that she would be fine. She wanted to reassure him that she would do anything necessary to help him. That wasn't going to change, regardless of what did or didn't happen between them. He could have made the executive decision that nothing was ever going to happen (which very much seemed like the thing he'd already done) and she would have been fine with that as well.
It had to be enough that he tested her limits the way he was, and it was only all right for him to do so because she had wanted for him to. And if she could let him close enough to her to even get that far, then it did certainly imply that eventually she could let others do the same. As despite whatever existed between her and Astarion, he still couldn't play the role of someone she could emotionally rely on. But if she didn't find that, if she didn't attempt to create and foster something like that, eventually that restraint and discipline of hers would fall to pieces.
When he asked of her, she didn't say anything immediately. Simply took what he was willing to give her.]
I'm not certain what you'd want me to talk about. I told you, I'm not interested in falling asleep. I just want to stay like this until we're ready to leave. I suspect you won't allow me to do this again. If I fall asleep, I won't be able to truly experience it. So I will take each and every moment afforded to me, and I will cherish them. That... may sound selfish of me, and it is, but I have spent so very long being selfless, that I feel I have earned this.
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[It wasn't what she wanted to say at all. She wanted to reassure him that she would be fine. She wanted to reassure him that she would do anything necessary to help him. That wasn't going to change, regardless of what did or didn't happen between them. He could have made the executive decision that nothing was ever going to happen (which very much seemed like the thing he'd already done) and she would have been fine with that as well.
It had to be enough that he tested her limits the way he was, and it was only all right for him to do so because she had wanted for him to. And if she could let him close enough to her to even get that far, then it did certainly imply that eventually she could let others do the same. As despite whatever existed between her and Astarion, he still couldn't play the role of someone she could emotionally rely on. But if she didn't find that, if she didn't attempt to create and foster something like that, eventually that restraint and discipline of hers would fall to pieces.
When he asked of her, she didn't say anything immediately. Simply took what he was willing to give her.]
I'm not certain what you'd want me to talk about. I told you, I'm not interested in falling asleep. I just want to stay like this until we're ready to leave. I suspect you won't allow me to do this again. If I fall asleep, I won't be able to truly experience it. So I will take each and every moment afforded to me, and I will cherish them. That... may sound selfish of me, and it is, but I have spent so very long being selfless, that I feel I have earned this.