[There's relief evident in her eyes when he tugs her hand to his lips — a gentle sort of emotion that's not quite shy and not precisely vulnerable, but open and sincere and to some extent lets slip that for all her confidence and bravado, beneath it there is still a girl — a young woman wrapped in the cloak of a legend.
There's a young man in him, too, beneath the fears and ordeals, the cases closed and the regrets still lingering.
And there is a time for the two of them, the thief and the agent, the fearless and the fearful, the mender and the martyr — but here, now, like this, it's time for just the two of them, holding hands in a quiet room an untold distance from anything either of them might call home, bridging worlds and crises and conflicts for the sake of staying together.
His doppelganger had asked her a question.
It's in the moment when his lips touch her hand that she thinks for the first time that she might know the answer.]
Then it's a good thing you don't have to.
[She shifts at last, uncurling, and moves to nudge against his side — there, undeniably close, and he can hold her if he chooses. But either way she's there, and will be, and in the end that's maybe all that matters.]
action;
There's a young man in him, too, beneath the fears and ordeals, the cases closed and the regrets still lingering.
And there is a time for the two of them, the thief and the agent, the fearless and the fearful, the mender and the martyr — but here, now, like this, it's time for just the two of them, holding hands in a quiet room an untold distance from anything either of them might call home, bridging worlds and crises and conflicts for the sake of staying together.
His doppelganger had asked her a question.
It's in the moment when his lips touch her hand that she thinks for the first time that she might know the answer.]
Then it's a good thing you don't have to.
[She shifts at last, uncurling, and moves to nudge against his side — there, undeniably close, and he can hold her if he chooses. But either way she's there, and will be, and in the end that's maybe all that matters.]