#little cw for the last para and some bloody stuff

[mightymizora]

"No matter where life takes us, I hope we'll always have this moment." for Jaheira/Halsin!! all rise for jahelsin agenda!!

(alternatively, "I thought I knew who I was until I met you." for Manva and one of her strange and unusual loves, Gortash for easy mode, but bonus points for making it weird and picking someone unexpected!!)

Well, you're getting both (Jahelsin forever)

They run together.

They run through the woods at a pace, through the clearing where they first found each other like this, past the tree they destroyed and up further. They run through the woods. he on her tail as she carves through and up the steeper parts of the hill, her claws finding purchase in the clay and forcing her way up and up to the very top of the hill. He is not far behind, crashing into her, pinning her beneath him as the reach the pinnacle, the light bright with the coming of a crisp dawn.

But she wants to talk. At least, for a little.

As she drops her shape, he, eventually, does the same, his hands wandering and his mouth at her neck.

She slaps his hands away playfully, and comes to sit.

She does not come here much. It is a long journey, it is tiring, but it is the best view of the city and further. It joins the land and the sea, the walls and the land beyond it. It shows the horizon, out towards what was the Shadow Cursed Lands. The place they met. The place he would return today.

"I will come here, when you are gone," she says. "I promise. As much as I can. I will come here and I will look out towards this new life you build. It is a good thing that you are doing."

"I'd like that."

He knows that he cannot convince her to come with him. He knows there are things that tie her here still, but there is still a small girlish part of her that thinks it would be nice for him to try. Even if she would cut him down like a weed.

"I will plant new trees, like these ones," he tells her. He is beaming. The difference of him here, only a few miles out of the city, is striking. She cannot imagine how beautiful he must be in the heart of nature. "I will tend them with love. I will grow food for the hungry. I will build new possibilities. I will put all of the love you have awakened in me into the earth."

He pulls her into a kiss, long and soft, his hand in her hair in a tangle. She pulls away and holds onto his arm.

"I want to tell you more," she tells him. "I want... but it's been so little time."

"You don't need to do anything on my account."

"But I want... more than this."

She wants to run in these woods with him until they have tracked the whole of the Coast. She wants to stop time so they have more. She wants to shed everything that made her who she was, and become something new, just for a while. Just them, for a while.

She just wants more time.

"There is a seedling," she says, closing her eyes and raising her face to the sun. "It is small, and it is beautiful and full of life. And if it takes, and it grows into a sapling, and then a grand oak, it will be beautiful. So beautiful. But it is no less full of life and beauty if it doesn't. If it only lived for days, not centuries."

She takes his hand and kisses it. He tastes of the earth. "Do you understand?"

Halsin smiles at her and kisses her ear. "I do. No matter where life takes us, I hope we will always have this moment. But... I must confess, I hope we will also have many more."

(And have the ultimate love. CW BLOOD)

"I thought I knew who I was," she says in a whisper, her hands spread over the body on the altar as she sits astride it. "I thought I knew my place, back in the old temple. I thought I new what my life would be, what service I would render unto the world. Until I heard your voice, I thought I knew."

Sceleritas hands her the bowl, and she pulls out the tongue from the mocking mouth of Michaelis, who had spread his doubts across the ears of the faithful. Bors had told her, dear sweet man, and she had granted him a quick death for his devotion. Michaelis, however? He would drown.

"I knew nothing," she said to the eyes of her Father, glowing red and bathing her in light. "I was nothing. A cowed child. Afraid of my power. Afraid of you. I was so afraid. Will you ever forgive me?"

He says nothing. A blessing in itself.

"I will never show fear again, Father," she swears, as Michaelis thrashes beneath her hand on his chest in his last moments. "I will be your hand forever."

#thank yoooou #god I LOVE Jaheira and Halsin #my most romantic shit for them forever #jaheira #halsin #manva warhelm #the dark urge #bhaal #little cw for the last para and some bloody stuff