[ With any luck, Kevin is also oblivious to the door softly shutting, and the click of the lock. Break joins him at the window, and begins to reach for his arm.
He hesitates. If he lets the lid off of this, he can imagine all sorts of terrible things happening. Kevin's eagerness aside, he is likely still reeling from being reunited with someone he spent three millennia searching for; in fact, this emotional fragility is probably the principal reason he is cleaving to Break. Break himself is, he knows full well, a damaged person, if not completely broken. This can't be good for either of them.
And then there's the small matter of Uriel and punishment. That whole issue is on hold for the moment, but how long that will last, he cannot tell.
But somewhere, at the bottom of the box, is hope: a fragile thing, though it has begun to bud under the golden sunshine of this angel's divine presence — and artless affection. He doesn't deserve it, but perhaps this is what Kevin has been getting at all along, about redemption and punishment being two different things. ]
Everybody's got to stay warm somehow.
[ He reaches for Kevin then, drawing him into an embrace — and a(n im)proper kiss. ]
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He hesitates. If he lets the lid off of this, he can imagine all sorts of terrible things happening. Kevin's eagerness aside, he is likely still reeling from being reunited with someone he spent three millennia searching for; in fact, this emotional fragility is probably the principal reason he is cleaving to Break. Break himself is, he knows full well, a damaged person, if not completely broken. This can't be good for either of them.
And then there's the small matter of Uriel and punishment. That whole issue is on hold for the moment, but how long that will last, he cannot tell.
But somewhere, at the bottom of the box, is hope: a fragile thing, though it has begun to bud under the golden sunshine of this angel's divine presence — and artless affection. He doesn't deserve it, but perhaps this is what Kevin has been getting at all along, about redemption and punishment being two different things. ]
Everybody's got to stay warm somehow.
[ He reaches for Kevin then, drawing him into an embrace — and a(n im)proper kiss. ]