All For You

It was easy for him to get lost in her and act like there was nothing upsetting her, even when he knew her better than that and could clearly tell she was in disarray. When Azzurra pushed back away from him and spoke out, he tensed. It was clear to both of them that he was just using this as a distraction to avoid what was slowly destroying their relationship. He wouldn’t so easily fold though.

After a moment of silence and grit teeth, Balthier pushed forward again, pulling her into him like she didn’t have any other choice and started kissing her. Quickly, he picked her up and placed her back down underneath of him, but didn’t go much farther until she retracted again. He huffed slightly to the near rejection, and he knew what was wrong and just didn’t want to face it. He told himself that he was protecting her by not telling her, but in reality he just wanted to live this false life and pretended that being with her, which felt so incredibly right in these moments, was not how their lives were supposed to be.

Still crouched over her slightly, he found his focus away from her face as his paw carefully ran down her shoulder, "We are not meant to be together Azzie, not like this." He somehow wondered how she could be so blind when he had felt like this their entire adolescent lives, but he really couldn’t blame her. Still, his paw had picked up off the ground and fell heavy with a thud next to her frame. A telltale sign of anger or frustration. "Have you never thought of our parents? Of those in Abaven? How Psalm is not here in your place?" His tone was hushed, but may have come off as angry or threatening. He struggled a lot with feeling like how damned they were for being together. And while he couldn’t blame her for not understanding, he didn’t understand how she couldn’t.

"Azzurra & Balthier"