Drake doesn't know how long it'll take him to be ready to leave here -- or if he'll ever feel ready. But he knows that it's not healthy for him to stay, preserving this place like a shrine. How many times did he say to Ephemera that it's not moving on to move forward? You don't forget the people you lose, and you never stop loving them. But keeping mementos is very different from torturing himself by refusing to ever leave a place that reminds him of his loss no matter where he looks.
"Just for a while," he echoes, shutting his eyes again. Knowing that the last thing his partner would have wanted is for him to wrap himself in this pain forever.
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Date: 2022-12-19 08:55 pm (UTC)Drake doesn't know how long it'll take him to be ready to leave here -- or if he'll ever feel ready. But he knows that it's not healthy for him to stay, preserving this place like a shrine. How many times did he say to Ephemera that it's not moving on to move forward? You don't forget the people you lose, and you never stop loving them. But keeping mementos is very different from torturing himself by refusing to ever leave a place that reminds him of his loss no matter where he looks.
"Just for a while," he echoes, shutting his eyes again. Knowing that the last thing his partner would have wanted is for him to wrap himself in this pain forever.