Fishblight Mire Flicker

He knows how she can be. He had been a container for the best and worst parts of her, and even in those moments she had not turned the dagger against him. Yet still, he remained ignorant — perhaps willfully so — of what life might look like without her. He's never even considered what her reaction might be because he's never considered the possibility to begin with, and he can't imagine a world in which he might need to.

There was nothing that had ever been big enough that they couldn't bear together.

He was so prone to losing himself that she was his tether to the present moment, so while he dryly said, The only reason, I'm sure, there was still warmth in his embrace.