[private] and in my dreams i've kissed your lips a thousand times // Wolfbane

[Kagerus]

Kagerus

{ and in my dreams I've kissed your lips a thousand times }

Kagerus?!

His voice rings out across the plains of Loess, or else, the last dregs of our dream; I'm near him now, or perhaps he is near me, both of us having teleported to a more suitable meeting-ground than his stone spire nest that he'd fallen asleep in. The forest around seems distant, reality still gathering in the midst of our questionable lucidity.

When I open my eyes, gasping and body throbbing in too many places to count (though the burns stick out quite evidently), he is there. Tail docked, spine bleeding, veins popping where the lightning struck him. I wince upon seeing that, using what dream I have left to undo the damage of that last flash; I put some mind to my chest too, but to a lesser extent than I put to his. I wonder if he can feel me manipulating the fibers of his being; but I'm too exhausted to find out.

"I can heal you if you want." The offer is gruff, laced with the exhaustion which leadens my bones and threatens to pull me out of the dream completely. 

"But - thanks for the fight. You put up a good one. And I needed it." It's as if I'm speaking to a ghost, my eyes glazed over and barely present; but their depths clear after a moment, as my mind travels to my step daughter, the question of her safety reviving me. I square my shoulders, peer through the haze of the dying dream, and find Wolfbane's gaze.

"I want Valdis back, Wolfbane. Your Lepis has made a mess of our kingdoms' relationship but I'm willing to pin that on the kingdom she rules now. I'm tired. Let this fruitless drama die." A harsh laugh escapes me. "Let's just be neighbours again."

"Please."

@[Wolfbane]