[It's an awful thought, but maybe that's the final lesson here. That no matter what they do, there are things that break and you can't put them back together again.
But that can't be it, can it? He's lived in despair for so long, believed that for so long, but Carter came to Africa, Carter saved him, Carter is in Gloucester and is trying to save him from Eldrich horrors and maybe, in another life, maybe the broken pieces could make something new. Different from before, but no less beautiful.]
S-sometimes you do your b-best and it's n-not enough. B-but you didn't give up. And y-you're here. You're...always here for me.
[He tries to smile. Do you see how much that means to him? That even in his worst days you're always here?
He draws his hand closer, pressing his lips to the back of it, already he's too weak to move but he tries to anyway.]
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[It's an awful thought, but maybe that's the final lesson here. That no matter what they do, there are things that break and you can't put them back together again.
But that can't be it, can it? He's lived in despair for so long, believed that for so long, but Carter came to Africa, Carter saved him, Carter is in Gloucester and is trying to save him from Eldrich horrors and maybe, in another life, maybe the broken pieces could make something new. Different from before, but no less beautiful.]
S-sometimes you do your b-best and it's n-not enough. B-but you didn't give up. And y-you're here. You're...always here for me.
[He tries to smile. Do you see how much that means to him? That even in his worst days you're always here?
He draws his hand closer, pressing his lips to the back of it, already he's too weak to move but he tries to anyway.]