#and i made first not alethi so that i didn't have to change his name bc in that system he would have had a 'jes' in his name instead

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truthwatcher duo holders babeyyyy..... um dont read if u havent finished oathbringer i guess

Yoichi had to tell him. If One-For-All, his own bonded spren, couldn’t be trusted- then all he had left was Nadin. It was so easy to- they’d sworn some oaths, because it had been important to the Alethi Truthwatcher to, and Yoichi wouldn’t have been able to bear leaving Urithiru without a word.

But now he was actually facing Nadin, who smiled at him with no idea of what was to come, indulging him in taking a seat and not using his height to look down on him like he normally did.

And Yoichi was about to bring his world down.

His voice felt so dry, and he suddenly wished he’d opened a jug of stronger wine than this yellow stuff. Still, it was what he had, so he knocked it back in a moment.

Nadin lifted a brow. “Something wrong, then?”

“Yeah. It, uh, happened again. The thing. But I know what it is now.” Yoichi put the empty vessel down on the floor in front of his chair. Then he wished he hadn’t, nothing else to do with his hands but hug himself. It didn’t do much to warm him. With the window open the tower was just too cold, but Nadin liked to keep it open. He claimed the air was good for your health, but Yoichi suspected it was to make it easier for his Windrunner friend to visit.

“That should be a good thing, right? I know you and One-For-All have been trying to figure it out for a while...”

“They lied to me. They already knew what it was. Nadin, I- Those visions, i see the future.”

To see the future was of Odium.

Yoichi had never quite understood why the Alethi went so far, in the forbidding of even gambling on outcomes when it was less predictive than the Stormwardens, never quite understood their fear to get anywhere near that. Yes, seeing the future was of Odium. But no one could do that anyway, so why fear anything but a person who claimed to?

And then he’d realized what was happening, what he saw.

Suddenly, understanding had been thrust upon him. Yoichi, too, wanted to be a thousand leagues from anything resembling it, even the silly shell games from his childhood when they’d guess which shell the sphere was hidden under.

“Ok.” Nadin nodded slowly. “Ok. Well they shouldn’t have lied to you, even if they had that reason.”

Yoichi blinked. blinked again.

Did he really think he needed to be reassured about his feelings being valid right now? Did he really think that was the problem?

Illiteracy of the written type was not the only one that plagued this man, it seemed.

“Nadin. I can see the future. That’s- that’s of Odium. I don’t even know if I am a Truthwatcher!” His voice cracked on the last sentence, head dropping into his hands. 

There was silence for a long moment, and Yoichi wondered if Nadin was looking to Haar for an answer, or if his own spren had perhaps returned after Yoichi shouted at him.

Then the creak of wood, the chair as Nadin stood.

That had been what he’d expected. Being left too, and why not, when he was lie.

Footsteps.

Not towards the door, but to his chair.

Nadin practically shoved him out of it before resettling them in it, arm looped casually over him.

Yoichi couldn’t see his face, but he didn’t need to to know how he felt when he spoke.

“Yo. I know you. I don’t know why you’re having visions, but I know you aren’t of Odium, at least. I trust you.” I love you. “We can figure this out, we can research. There’s plenty of non-Vorin Knights Radiant, they’d probably be easier to ask and look. And if One-For-All knew, other spren might as well. We will figure this out.”

“I don’t know where they went, after they told me the truth. I don’t know how much we can trust them anyway, or the other spren that know of it.” Yoichi sighed, resisting the urge to relax into Nadin yet. “And even aside where these visions come from- what they say is terrible too.”

“You’re worried about some of the things you saw.” Nadin realized. “Oh.”

Yeah, oh. Yoichi had only told him some of the strange sights and dreams, and there had been so many more. So many worse.

He just nodded. 

He felt Nadin nod back.

Then he leaned around Yoichi to kiss him on the nose.

Yoichi jerked back, “Hey.”

“Did you see that coming?”

“Wha- no?’

“Then you just don’t see the good things coming. Your visions are not all encompassing or all powerful, so i’m afraid you will not be able to take the Almighty’s position yet.”

Yoichi twisted so he could actually see Nadin, look into his deep brown eyes. Brown, safe, not green like when he needed to draw Haar as a blade.

“I guess not.” Yoichi huffed a laugh. “But I’ll let you know if that changes, my wonderful Knight.”

“Please do.” Nadin didn’t say anything more for a while, but he did lean his head on Yoichi’s and held him close.