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IT WAS REAL FOR ME

Him: my heart, my soul, knows who it is even before my mother reaches her and tips her chin up.

Her: For some reason, I feel safer than I can remember as his arms close around me and he lifts me once again. I know him. I know him with my heart, a deep sense of familiarity that feels engraved into my bones.

"Because your heart is already taken, An'ying. You say his name sometimes when you dream"

- I don't know that anything can go back to how it once was.
+ Such is life, An'ying, you cannot live your life chasing the shadows of the past - whether it's your father's dying wishes or the days in the sun with me and Mei'zi. You must look to the future, my daughter, and choose how you wish to shape it.

In my dreams, she's half-turned to me, sunlight limming the angles of her face, the shine of her braid, the curve of her lips. And I'm chasing her, chasing a life in which she might look at me and smile.

I'm reeling, grasping at straws, but I no longer care. I have no more cards to play, no walls to put up - not when it comes to her.

"I want to callout to her. I want to step into that memory and hold her to me. I want to promise her everything I can't and he can. Most of all, I want to be on the other side of that expression she wears. I want to be someone she loves so much and so fiercely"
yu'chen my baby (i love that we get his pov, btw)

"the halfling who gave in to his weak mortal insticts and betrayed his kingdom - all for a girl"

"If there is anything she deserves in this life, it is someone who will love her first and foremost, irrevocably. Who, when it comes down to it, will choose her over a kingdom."
well i'm sorry but that is clearly yu'chen

"I love her more than anything else in this world. More than my own life. I have for all of nine years"