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"In many ways, unwise love is the truest love. Anyone can love a thing because. That’s as easy as putting a penny in your pocket. But to love something despite. To know the flaws and love them too. That is rare and pure and perfect." from cyrillo 👀

Fantasy Magic & Romance / Always Accepting // @tvrningout

Her heart aches. She doesn't know why (yes, she does), just that it hurts to hear him talk like that. Even if she can't exactly pinpoint the exact reason (yes, she can), she just knows...

Well, that he deserves better.

Deserves better than wanting, yearning, and never getting, reaching out for something that he won't ever be able to grasp. She knows it's a silly desire, when he's lived as long as he has— loss and heartbreak and grief are an inevitable part of life even in a mortal's lifespan.

But. Even still.

As much as her heart throbs, it also twists and flips and tries to flutter alight from inside its cage. She can't help but think about how she's anything but a penny, about as fortuitous as a shattered mirror, and how Cyrillo suggests that that would get her something as dreamlike as perfect love.

Instead she hums in the back of her throat, gaze sweeping over the sunset as she leans against the railing, swallowing her heart and hope and courage down, down, down, and tightening the lock of her ribs.

"I don't know," she says, resting her cheek against her hand and forcing the heat away from her face, against the thumpthumpthump in her chest trying to force it up across her skin.

She glances back at him, trying to be as casual as possible. Not cold, not really, but she may as well be trying to do an impression of a tundra with how much she wants to melt away with warmth, instead.

"You like to speak from experience, Cyrillo—" Fuck. "But you've always seemed like a wise man, to me."

Maybe it wasn't what he wanted, and maybe he preferred trials and tribulations and what-ifs to simple and sweet fulfilled promises of happy endings and ever-afters.

But. As far as she's concerned?

He deserves all the pennies in the world.