i am the mace, the map, the fall and the high
Something inside of him eases when she doesn’t flinch from the brutality he wears beneath a thin veneer of civility. He has always been a wild and wicked thing so much like her. And they had been drawn together like magnets, even from the very beginning. It’s so easy to forget though, the dual natures of magnets. The opposing poles that can both so easily repel and attract.
Today however, as he erases the distance between them, the pull bringing them back together is undeniable. Right now, Reave chooses not to look to tomorrow, lest he find the poles reversed.
She doesn’t deny his accusation. How could she, when he sees so much? Still, he finds himself glad of it. He would not temper himself, especially not for her. He doesn’t reply immediately. But then, he doesn’t need to. She may not be able to read the wash of his memories like he can, but he has never bothered to hide the sharpness of the emotions carving lines into his features.
As his glittering eyes trace over her features, he relaxes a small fraction at what he finds there. Even now though, there is little in the way of softness. He is not a soft creature - he has always been a thing made of sharp edges. Still, he presses forward, leaving only a whisper of space to separate the jutting bone of his shoulder from hers. Even the slightest sway would bring the harsh lines of his body against Galadriel’s gentler curves.
There is a challenge in his eyes that matches hers, the ghost of a smile flashing across his lips before disappearing once more. “There is a lot of me to know,” he replies. Though his voice is soft, there is no leniency in it. “You may regret asking for such a thing.”
Behind the bright gleam of his gaze, there is something almost haunted. His youth has always been such a bitter deception. Though he has never tried to hide what he is or what he must become, he knows the tangle of his own truths run deep. She might not like what she finds there. But he would not stop her, because a far more overwhelming part of him wants to know if she could truly accept him for all that he is. For all that he wants.
reave
@galadriel