We bested her, so that statement can be taken as fact. [ Astarion doesn't feel any kind of guilt about killing the mother, considering she had been prepared to eat them and her children. They're all trying to do what they can to survive, so he is pleased to find that he came out a victor.
The gentle touch of Halsin's hand is something that he hasn't experienced before. He can't remember much of being alive, of when his mother and father took care of him, but he doesn't think they were ever as tender as this. No one has ever touched his hair so tenderly, taken care of him so softly, and it makes him feel a kind of pained, gentle peace that had haunted him in his years of torture.
Breathing out softly, he closes his eyes. Where was this, when he was alone and desperate? Where was this when no one dared speak to him, when he was isolated, tortured, left broken and ruined in the grey, empty world?
Nowhere. He was nowhere.
Blinking back the emotion, Astarion shakes his head a little. ]
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The gentle touch of Halsin's hand is something that he hasn't experienced before. He can't remember much of being alive, of when his mother and father took care of him, but he doesn't think they were ever as tender as this. No one has ever touched his hair so tenderly, taken care of him so softly, and it makes him feel a kind of pained, gentle peace that had haunted him in his years of torture.
Breathing out softly, he closes his eyes. Where was this, when he was alone and desperate? Where was this when no one dared speak to him, when he was isolated, tortured, left broken and ruined in the grey, empty world?
Nowhere. He was nowhere.
Blinking back the emotion, Astarion shakes his head a little. ]
It's fine, Halsin.