[When Atem pulls back and looks him in the face, Ryou looks...pretty miserable, yeah. Guilty, worn out, and pretty tired, yes. The souls he'd eaten weren't going to be enough. He'd have to go out again, because even healing from injuries less grievous than this one had been had taken it out of him.
He'd had to hunt out of cycle once he'd grown back his arm and leg, and he'd made really bad choices then, choices he kept in his heart and away from anyone who might see the monster inside. Because there was one. The angry, vengeful creature that consumed indiscriminately and hurt the people he cared about.
No one could tell him he didn't have a monster inside of him. Not anymore. But so that he didn't hurt them...he'd keep those thoughts inside. They could only hurt him. And that was fine.]
Will you stay with me? Just until I'm asleep, then you can leave if you want to.
[He closes his eyes and exhales softly. Even though his body hurts, his heart hurts and his mind feels heavy...being here, forehead to forehead...it's comforting. He doesn't even realize he's leaned in to press a fond kiss to the bridge of Atem's bat-muzzle until a few seconds have passed.
Perhaps just a casual reminder that Atem being a bat-monster will never bother him.]
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He'd had to hunt out of cycle once he'd grown back his arm and leg, and he'd made really bad choices then, choices he kept in his heart and away from anyone who might see the monster inside. Because there was one. The angry, vengeful creature that consumed indiscriminately and hurt the people he cared about.
No one could tell him he didn't have a monster inside of him. Not anymore. But so that he didn't hurt them...he'd keep those thoughts inside. They could only hurt him. And that was fine.]
Will you stay with me? Just until I'm asleep, then you can leave if you want to.
[He closes his eyes and exhales softly. Even though his body hurts, his heart hurts and his mind feels heavy...being here, forehead to forehead...it's comforting. He doesn't even realize he's leaned in to press a fond kiss to the bridge of Atem's bat-muzzle until a few seconds have passed.
Perhaps just a casual reminder that Atem being a bat-monster will never bother him.]