[ The touch to his head anchors him just a little bit, tilting himself into the touch before he breathes out a soft noise, finally forcing himself to relax. Tsurumaru is here; he's safe... That's what matters, isn't it? ]
I'm happier now.
[ Because his lover is here, breathing, battered and bruised but alive. Aki knows that feeling intimately, in echoes and from his own experience, so it's going to take him a little while to muster himself, to feel more like the man he had become.
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I'm happier now.
[ Because his lover is here, breathing, battered and bruised but alive. Aki knows that feeling intimately, in echoes and from his own experience, so it's going to take him a little while to muster himself, to feel more like the man he had become.
Leaning into him more, he shakes his head. ]
It's okay. You're engaged to a dead man, so...
[ Surely Tsurumaru is in a worse position. ]