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    "Told you," he croaked out with strength he gathered from Varka’s presence.

    Varka's hand found his cheek immediately, thumb brushing carefully and lightly over his jaw. "What?"

    "You said—" Lohen swallowed, throat raw. "’Wait here’."

    Varka asks. Lohen listens. Both of them suffer emotionally as a result.

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    Varka sat down on a stool beside the cot and brought his hand to Lohen's forehead. “Mhm, you're still a little warm.”

    “How long have I been out?” 

    “Nearly nine days. I wouldn't say ‘out' of it necessarily, but you've somehow managed to sabotage yourself even whilst being out of it.” Varka glanced at the patterns the stained glass was forming on Lohen's lap, then pointedly at the cuffs that dangled by the cot railings. “Barbara was forced to give you numerous sedatives just so you wouldn't hurt yourself.”

    “Oh.”

    Varka stayed quiet for an uncomfortably long time after that. Eventually, he swallowed dryly and opened his mouth. “Lohen.”

    “I don't want to talk about it, Varka.”

     

    Or, Lohen grieves.

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    Varka smiled down at Lohen sadly. “Then why do you keep such tight constraints on yourself? Tell me, Lohen, for I cannot fathom how someone as strong as you sees themselves as… deserving of punishment despite having shown incredible strength against an enemy that I can swear on my honor that neither I could win against.” 

    “It’s different,” Lohen began, but his words felt hollow. He repeated, “It’s different.”

    “How?”

    Lohen could feel the same frustration clawing at his skin when his parents would berate him for going out and coming back bloody. It was something that was wired innately into his being. He needed a stimulus that proved that he wasn’t someone who could be easily stepped over. 

    “How?” Varka asked again.

    Lohen opened his mouth, and it felt as though his tongue had gone dry. He sniffled before turning his head away. “It just is, I don’t know.”

    “If you don’t know, then will you let me make the decision for you?” Varka asked. 

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    Or: the aftermath of Lohen's battle with Rerir

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    "Uh, what are you doing?" Lohen's eyes narrow as he watches Varka's every move.

    Varka pauses at the question, brows knitting together, as if perplexed. "What does it look like? I'm offering you first aid," he says. "I may not be as skilled as our medics or healers, but I can at least make sure you don't bleed out all over my desk."

    "And why are you doing that?" Lohen frowns some. Varka is just one of those people he thinks he'll never really understand. Again, an enigma. Shouldn't he be pushing Lohen out the door right now? Ordering him to get medical attention (not that he'd listen, even if he did)?

    "Because you're refusing to see a medic," Varka answers, simple and to the point. "It's my job as the Grand Master to make sure my knights are in top shape and taken care of."

    "I don't recall personally tending to your subordinate's scrapes being a part of your job description."

    "Hah! So now you want to talk about job descriptions eh, Vice Captain?"

    five times varka showed lohen he cared and the one time lohen showed him.

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    Every time Olruggio looked at him, he still saw the small, scared, ferocious child Qifrey used to be. He saw the young man who left Olruggio behind to take a pilgrimage that was all his own. He saw the adult he was now, a man of roiling waves under a calm surface, soft warmth and untouchable ice. He saw every side of Qifrey that he knew, and loved them all the same.

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