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a safe place to land by strikinglight
Fandoms: Fire Emblem: Fuukasetsugetsu | Fire Emblem: Three Houses, Fire Emblem Series
05 Jul 2020
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“I don’t know that animals converse the way we do,” says Marianne. She looks at Claude’s image in the mirror: at the places where his own hair falls into his face, at the familiar angle of his bent neck, edged in lamplight. “But if they live around each other long enough, they start to be able to understand each other. The meaning of the sounds they make, and their movements… It’s a different sort of language, I suppose.”
Marianne makes herself at home.
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“But that’s the trouble, isn’t it, when you take a living thing into your care? By the end…”
“By the end?”
At the time, Marianne had forgotten the particular texture of Claude’s silences. It broke upon her gradually as he stood there, weighing up the words he had meant to say, looking into her eyes—and then she remembered.
“By the end,” he said at last, “you belong to it, just as much as it belongs to you.” And then, more softly, in the sort of voice you use for secrets, “Don’t you, Marianne?”