Letters

[strivinghigher]

I wonder if the letter I wrote to my parents will get home before I do. It might turn out to be pointless, but I couldn't not tell them as soon as I could...

I was in the middle of writing it when someone put a paper slip under my door with my exam results, and I found out I'd graduated with honours, and I thought, yesterday this is what would

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[thewishfire]

And the world turns, a little bit brighter.

You're so amazing. I already said it to you in person, but congratulations, Roxis-sama. You're everything you always wanted to be.

[strivinghigher]

Congratulations to you, too, Vayne. And thank you again, because I feel so grateful...

[thewishfire]

Thank you, too-- for the congratulations, and so much more besides.

I won't stop you saying it. Say whatever soothes your heart and lets it speak, Roxis-sama. We're in a world that words can't touch, and so I know it's so hard to find anything that will truly make you feel like you've poured out. And if you really can't speak, I'm always here to hold.

I guess you're heading home as soon as ceremonies are over, then? Your parents are going to be so overcome....

[strivinghigher]

I want to say... heh. What don't I want to say? Everything is just so poignant and touching... Even the things that most people would call meaningless. What we'd think of as worthless things, the trash, the unwanted and unexamined things, they're shining with so much meaning in every fibre of their existence, and those are just the least meaningful bits, and the things that are really cared for, how much more so... I want to gather up everything, really everything, and treasure it...

I should go back after ceremonies, yes... they'll be expecting me. I want to ask their permission to have you visit, but I'll write to you and ask you to come see me just as soon as I can. And I'll come back to Al-Revis soon, to stay. I promise I will.

[thewishfire]

A million burning suns in every mote of dust.... I see it, and I feel it in my heart.... And I don't think I have words for it, any more. I stare at the tiniest thing and I feel like I could fall forever; I'm walking through a world where every point of light unfolds into galaxies. I think I might be the one who needs to hold you, now, thinking about that.

I'll be waiting, just like I told you. I know you'll come back.

[strivinghigher]

Then hold me, oh, my beloved, just... hold on to me and know... I feel like there's not enough of me to hold close to everything I want to hold close to. But you, most of all, most precious...