REDACTABLE - Hua Cheng

[heartablaze]

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[heartablaze]

...What did he tell you?

[Quietly, letting her eyes settle on the scroll with a pained flicker.]

[supremity]

[ Gaze lifting up, like he's looking to the Heavens even in this place, he rises from his knees - so as not to prostrate, and instead to stand on his own two feet, with this memory. ]

"If you don't know how to live on anymore, then live for me. I have no answer to the question you asked. However, if you don't know the meaning of your life, then make me that meaning, and use me as your reason to live."

[heartablaze]

...You kept each other alive, then.

[It's a little aweing, to see Hua Cheng speak like this, and not with the cold ruthlessness he used so often in trials. It's like a little window, secret and vulnerable, into the heart of a man that has simply wanted to live, and let someone else live alongside him.]

I... hope, wherever Dianxia-sama is, that he knows how devoted you are to him.

[supremity]

En. I doubt he even remembers me, but I regardless will always remember him.

[ A little boy, beaten, dirty, born under a star of solitude. A nameless boy, too young for war, but there regardless. Why would Dianxia remember him?

Nothing like melancholy tinges that devotion. Just a quiet understanding. ]

And that is enough, for me.

[heartablaze]

...

Hua-chan...

...

If I come to find you, to make sure you remember Dianxia-sama, no matter what happens...

Would you allow me? To help remember your cherished prince, even if it's just for a little while?

[supremity]

[ A bright bubble of something - warm, almost, comes up, and he laughs. ]

If you will protect it, and help me to cherish it, then I would entrust my memory of him to you, Hikaru.

[heartablaze]

[It's so foreign, but so unexplicably warm and kind, like sunshine on a cloudy winter day.]

...Thank you, Hua-chan.

I'll do my best with your trust in me.

[supremity]

[ Of course, there's no pat, given the shocking effect of the week. But he lets the warm feeling remain, rather than boxing it up. ]

Mm, I'm sure you will.