abyssale | 𝖘𝖆𝖑𝖙𝖇𝖚𝖗𝖓𝖙 𝖎𝖓𝖇𝖔𝖝.

( well... shit. he doesn't know how to counter that in his moment.

so he'll let Dani live with the delusion for now.

he looks out at the lake. ) She is pretty. ( he says of the moon and her reflection. )

[ Dani smiles. ]

She's beautiful.

I wish she could hear us. [ Nocturna. ] I wish she could see how much we missed her.

Would she forgive us? ( Lexi frowns. ) Maybe it's best she doesn't hear us.

[ a minor little shake of dani's head. ]

No. We don't deserve it. If our world was her vengeance, she deserves to have it, and we deserve our suffering.

Humans, vampires, wolves. All of us.

( Lexi sits on that a moment. then nods. ) Our world failed her.

We don't deserve the moon at home.

[ his head shakes again. he closes his eyes, and feeling tears behind them, he turns to press his cheek back against lexi's head. ]

I told you, looking at her makes me sad. I love her. But it always ends this way.

( Lexi is surprised by the reaction. he feels... anger and pain when he sees the moon. shame even.

he reaches up to brush Dani's cheek. ) Why sad?

[ he murmurs at that touch, and turns his head to kiss lexi's fingers. ]

I don't know. I just am, I...

[ a shake of his head. ]

I know it's just a story. The gods are dead if they were ever real. It's made me cry all my life, even so.

( he leans in to kiss the top of his head. ) It's just a story.

All we feel... it's probably just guilt the stories have pushed onto us. They're just objects in the sky. It's not real.

I know.

[ this emotion doesn't make sense.

but lexi says we feel. and he talks about feeling mocked, judged. that makes no sense, either. it's not just dani, it's both of them.

he opens his eyes, and looks at lexi again. that brings back his smile, enough that he leans in and kisses him again. ]

You're real. This is real. I don't know how I can be sad when you just told me you loved me, that's stupid. I'm sorry.

Now you're the one apologizing. ( Lexi laughs slightly and shakes his head. he leans in to kiss him again. )

It doesn't matter. We're here together. That's all that matters.

[ that part, he can agree with. he nods, and leans in to kiss lexi's smile. he thinks he could kiss him all night. ]

It is.

Thank you for talking to me even though it hurt. Thank you for trusting me.

Yes, so don't tell everyone I was crying. ( he teases.

but he does add more seriously. ) And the blood power I showed you. Tell no one, please. Should I need it, it's best no one expect it.

Lexi.

[ dani shifts so that he can look him in the eyes, and rests his hand against the side of his jaw. ]

All of your secrets are safe with me. I promise.

[ ... ]

It's a blood power?

[ he thought lexi was just moving him with his mind. that's far more involved than he realised. ]

( oh.

he thought that obvious but maybe not?

he blinks at Dani. ) Was that not obvious?

[ how was that possibly obvious.

a minor shake of his head, while the look he gives lexi does most of the work. ]

No, there was just this...tug, pulling me to my knees and holding me there. I thought you were just doing that with your mind.

What were you actually doing?

I was grabbing your blood. ( he tells him like it's the most normal thing. ) I can feel it. Even now. Not just in the way other vampires can. It's... in me somehow...

( he tilts his head, then lifts his hand. Dani's hand raises with it, and Lexi twists his fingers and Dani's fingers curl in on themselves. ) Feel it more closely. The pressure is coming from inside you. Not from an external force.

[ in his defence, the last time this power touched him, lexi had been attacking him. he'd panicked, he hadn't really been thinking about much.

but now, he sees what he means. there is something moving him, but it's less like anything is wrapping around him, and more like there's a string attached. ]

That's...gods.

[ frowning, he stares at him. ]

How much have you used this, do you...can you control it when it's outside the body, too?

( Lexi let's him loose, then brings his wrist to his own hand. he bites into his wrist and lets the blood start to flow.

but as he watches, the blood starts to raise off his skin. it pulls into the air and forms into a crystal hanging above his hand. ) I don't practice on others often. I have to kill anyone I practice on.

So, I'm more skilled at manipulating blood externally through practicing with my own blood.

[ feeling it had been strange enough.

this? this is unbelievable.

fascinated, dani leans closer. it's solidifying. it's doing...exactly what he wants it to. ]

And when it's solid, you can still feel it?

[ it's hovering, so obviously he can. ]

Lexi, you could...I mean, in theory? You could heal people. Stop them from bleeding out, get rid of injuries. Maybe even more.

Stop people from killing my family. ( he adds.

he flicks his wrist and turns the crystal into a sharp spike that he throws across the way into a tree. )

I know... It's... the possibilities are endless. I haven't even found them all.

[ okay. the crystal's also a weapon.

unexpected. but effective, clearly.

dani puts his hand on lexi's chest. ]

Look, you can't change what they did. But you can get your throne back, you can do that. You've time to learn all you can do.

I intend to. On both fronts. ( he nods his head. )

[ dani nods too. ]

That voice, from your first night. It never came back?

( he hesitates. )

Remember we talked about our dreams? You dreamt the sun? I dreamt the stars? ( this is so weird, but... ) There's also a girl there. In the field, watching the stars.

Her voice reminds me of that first time.

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