#valgus and blaise for special mention hiehehehd

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*gun todd* I want to see "10. I know you’re hurt, Kisa" with kisa and miraak. throw in a "13. there is no shame in crying. I promise." even.

Dialogue prompt turned snippets. You can just tell how amazing i am with instructions 💀💀💀💀

That time Kisa refused to re-materialize + after she finally did

So here she is again. Existing beside him in this.. This strange.. unknown, where they are nothing but thousands, even millions of strings set alight. The only two entities here and not here. An eternity within a moment. An in between. Bound by a link exclusive to him and him only.

"I.. I can't go back there.." Curious what a void can do. She couldn't even hear her voice tremble. Is she even talking?

"But you will." It wasn't a command. It wasn't anything. Just the brutal truth spoken gently.

Why? Why can't she stop it? She was sure that last spell could disintegrate her until there is nothing left. The gods turn their gaze and watch, unstirred and unfeeling. Nobody has yet to answer her. So why keep her here, send her back each time to suffer a cycle impossible to break? She still feels it in every fiber of her being. Lives, history, emotions ripped apart, sundered and unmade as she used it to command reality. To save them - her family.

"I know you're hurt, Kisa..."

"Miraak, I made a choice. I know the consequences." She tried to clench her fist to no avail as she suppressed the storm of emotions. "They wouldn't want me back anyway." But that, breathing life into those words was a dull knife into her flesh.

"Is death really what you're after?"

Something about his question silenced the cacophony of whispers in her head. "If you desire it so then why are you still here?"

"...I'm so tired, Miraak.. The lingering noise.. These-" Kisa grimaces, reflexively grasping at her chest, and let out a bitter laugh. "I can't even begin to describe it."

"I know. We are the same soul, you and I. Between us, we cannot nor do we need to lie." They have no face in this realm, but emotions he has. And she can picture him smiling softly beneath the warm glow of his figure. "You will always return. And I.." Miraak made a gesture, an extended hand perhaps - she couldn't tell, she could only know he moved in this space. "..will be there with you. Just as you were there for me, dragonborn."

The ticking of time slowly began to match her heartbeat. It aches yet it isn't a painful one. How come... Was hope already too foreign of an emotion to her?

Bonus bc im emo

The first thing she caught was the scent of freshly baked loaves wafting the air. Next was the breeze, rustling of leaves above her head. On her side were soft cluttering and distant chopping. Then comes vision. Soft crystalline glow bouncing off the cabin room reflected by gems—soul gems—by her feet.

She panicked at first, making a mumbled noise that alerted her caretakers but was stopped short by the hand holding hers. Kisa blinks her confusion away and recognizes Miraak by her side. He didn't need to show his face, she would know him by what they are. And right now, she knows he's at peace to have her back.

"Kisa!"

Light, unbalanced footsteps echoed in the house as Blaise stumbles his way to her bed. The young man did not wait for permission and immediately captured the dragonborn like they'll disappear again if he didn't hold on tight enough. He would berate her for the next moments, claiming to be mad at her yet cry out happiness. Miraak raised his shoulders slightly when Kisa looked at him for instructions.

"Blaise? Wh-.. If you're here, then…"

"By the Stars. You're here.."

Valgus enters the room to look after Blaise and finds himself holding back tears upon seeing Kisa returned. "You're truly here. My child.." The old man reaches out as he approaches and Kisa was more than willing to reach back, to embrace their guardian, to tell him she's back and,

"Valgus, I'm sorry—I couldn't do it.. I failed.. I couldn't let them go." She anxiously whispered her apologies to them, already expecting to meet their baffled expressions, but they didn't budge. Valgus kept them in his arms. Kisa had made mistakes but he never loved her any less.

"We have time later, my child. Do you want something to eat?"

"Yes! I was just helping Valgus with lunch. You're going to like it!" Blaise cheered with a wide grin as he bounced on his feet.

This should be too much for her, Kisa thought. But there was a lump forming in her throat, misty eyes from receiving their tender gestures. Kisa didn't want to say anything until she sensed Miraak still observing her.

"There is no shame in crying." Miraak gives his apprentice a sagely nod "I promise." A sense of fulfillment flooded the first dragonborn as he watched her bare her heart to them. Home, belonging, contentment. He easily feels some of what she does. They are strange concepts to him, yet she places so much value on them. Perhaps she did have something to teach him that a thousand lifetime's worth in Apocrypha couldn't.