[For all the effort he puts into sounding exasperated, he cannot help but smile, and reaches to take the side of Hythlodaeus' face in hand to pull him downwards into a languid kiss. It is a simple display of affection, yet the emotions that accompany it are anything but. Overwhelming and surreal are chief among them, but there is also gladness, affection, and bittersweet as they may be, he is intent on enjoying these moments after thousands of years parted, countless lives lived for his duty and his beliefs rather than for himself.]
This once, I will abide her meddling.
[The words are murmured against his lips as the kiss breaks, the curve of his wry smile apparent by touch. It is not something he offers to many, this private part of himself, but Hythlodaeus had ever been an exception.]
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[For all the effort he puts into sounding exasperated, he cannot help but smile, and reaches to take the side of Hythlodaeus' face in hand to pull him downwards into a languid kiss. It is a simple display of affection, yet the emotions that accompany it are anything but. Overwhelming and surreal are chief among them, but there is also gladness, affection, and bittersweet as they may be, he is intent on enjoying these moments after thousands of years parted, countless lives lived for his duty and his beliefs rather than for himself.]
This once, I will abide her meddling.
[The words are murmured against his lips as the kiss breaks, the curve of his wry smile apparent by touch. It is not something he offers to many, this private part of himself, but Hythlodaeus had ever been an exception.]