He tries. Manages to prop himself up halfway, just enough to see Akechi, before slowly easing himself back down. His concentration was so split between the two of them that the Tentacle of Healing's done a hack job on them both; wounds patched up enough to not be mortal, dislocations and fractures and breaks healed but deep gouges turned shallow cuts still bleeding, tears turned aches still searing.
They're both a mess.
Maruki tries it once more. Manages to heave himself over to lie parallel next to Akechi, head landing in a blessedly dry patch of grass.
The stars overhead, the same ones he looked at with Vash on the night he tried to convince him to return to the castle.
It hurts. Everything does.
A few moments of silence punctuated only by their heavy, labored breathing, and then: ]
Yeah. We're fine.
[ He doesn't turn his head to look at Akechi. Lets his eyes go half-lidded with exhaustion, body doing its best to melt down into the sodden earth and rot away. He can't move. Won't move. He's so tired. They're spent. ]
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He tries. Manages to prop himself up halfway, just enough to see Akechi, before slowly easing himself back down. His concentration was so split between the two of them that the Tentacle of Healing's done a hack job on them both; wounds patched up enough to not be mortal, dislocations and fractures and breaks healed but deep gouges turned shallow cuts still bleeding, tears turned aches still searing.
They're both a mess.
Maruki tries it once more. Manages to heave himself over to lie parallel next to Akechi, head landing in a blessedly dry patch of grass.
The stars overhead, the same ones he looked at with Vash on the night he tried to convince him to return to the castle.
It hurts. Everything does.
A few moments of silence punctuated only by their heavy, labored breathing, and then: ]
Yeah. We're fine.
[ He doesn't turn his head to look at Akechi. Lets his eyes go half-lidded with exhaustion, body doing its best to melt down into the sodden earth and rot away. He can't move. Won't move. He's so tired. They're spent. ]
We can't keep doing this here.