[ ariane's better, then. healed, if not yet healthy. it's more than she'd ever hoped for, at least. ]
... I think we may have already woken up. And even if we haven't... [ where did dreams end and reality begin, over all those centuries? it was an endless dream about dreaming, folding reality over and over itself, splitting it apart at the seams and knitting it back together at the wrong angles. ]
Even if this is some shared delusion, it doesn't change anything.
[ elster takes a slow breath, pressing a kiss to the top of ariane's head. ]
Tell me if you start to get tired. I can carry you. [ all that occupies elster now is getting ariane somewhere where the two of them can begin to reorient themselves. ] Once we... understand this a little more, I think we should get you to a doctor.
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... I think we may have already woken up. And even if we haven't... [ where did dreams end and reality begin, over all those centuries? it was an endless dream about dreaming, folding reality over and over itself, splitting it apart at the seams and knitting it back together at the wrong angles. ]
Even if this is some shared delusion, it doesn't change anything.
[ elster takes a slow breath, pressing a kiss to the top of ariane's head. ]
Tell me if you start to get tired. I can carry you. [ all that occupies elster now is getting ariane somewhere where the two of them can begin to reorient themselves. ] Once we... understand this a little more, I think we should get you to a doctor.