"You should leave him," The sudden words caught the elf off-guard for a moment, her gaze quickly turning away to look at Unmei. Instinctively her lips had parted to protest, but the sword spirit was quicker with her words. "If you have any care for him, you'll forget him."
It caused her brows to furrow even as her lips settled in a thin line, the corners turned downwards into a light frown. The harshness in Unmei’s voice spoke of her own resolve, she truly believed this to be the best outcome for them all—and, in a way, who better than her to know given the extensive history she had with Ari? The blonde was aware that, compared to the dark-haired woman, she was only a faint blip in his life thus far—someone with whom he’d crossed paths in the real world a few months ago, and then once more in game a bit after.
"No… I won’t hate you." The mention of an accident hadn’t passed by her, the same word used by Ari when he’d explained his need to write things down in that little black notebook—no doubt one and the same. Her hands, initially balled up into tight fists, had relaxed on her lap as Lúthien took a moment to properly think. This was too important of a matter to simply allow herself to impulsively react towards it, an approach that the girl used with most things in life. "But I’m not leaving him."
She’d made her choice long before she’d been aware of it, the seriousness of her voice punctuating the finality of that statement. He was free to leave her if he so chose, after all that was a decision that only the man could make for himself, but she was determined to stay by his side for as long as he allowed it. Not Unmei, nor anyone else. Him. "After all, you said it yourself—something will happen. He’s too stubborn for his own good," A light scoff left the elf at those words, the irony of the statement not lost on her—when it came to that trait they’d both been cut from the same cloth.
"You know him better than I do… he’s not gonna stop." He’d already managed something the girl wouldn’t have thought possible had she not heard and seen it herself—after such a success there was no way he wasn't planning on something more. Quietly her eyes drifted back to gaze at the slumbering man, before a sigh parted her lips. "There’s no guarantee that you alone can protect him from the consequences of his own actions, so I’ll stay too."
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