Step!
"...I… I… M-My love is terrified of me leaving him with his baby… instead of just telling me the truth."
Delphine halted her steps. Her breath shuddered.
She stared at the man before her—Messy hair, old and tattered clothes, dry skin, an exhausted body trembling from the long walk and long pain…But his eyes…Those same eyes that held her whole world inside them.
"A-Aether?" Delphine mumbled with pain as she saw Aether before her—broken yet alive.
"D-Delphine?" Aether mumbled with longing as he saw Delphine before him—broken and lost yet… bright, stubborn, beautiful even in ruin.
"I… I love you," Aether muttered as he stepped forward.
He passed through something invisible with a plop sound, like a water drop falling into still water.
Yet he didn't care to listen.
He didn't care about anything except her.
He only looked at his Delphine and… wrapped one hand around her while the other still clung to the chain… so tight!
