[Ardyn took a drink and handed it back to him, taking a breath and letting it out slowly. Everything was still a painful tangled mess in his head, regrets mixed with confusion and tied up with hundreds of thousands of memories.]

[...But he was here and alive right now. That was a start, and from there he'd just have to learn to accept that acceptance itself might well have been his undeserved fate.]

I love you too. I love this disaster of a family more than you could ever know, and I want nothing more than to keep us in one piece--myself included.