[ past time, really. credence does not know what cost will be dragged from them but he won't let it be pulled from graves. this is his fight and his servant will not bear more suffering than necessary - no, he needs him along as a guide, as help if he can't return home on his own. he knows graves well enough to know that he may try to take on the cost himself and he would try to go without him if he could but there's just no way and he trusts no one else.
he smiles and it's tired - but then graves is right there touching his chin, his lip, and he sucks in a breath that's just barely shaking. his hand, damp from the bath, comes up to grasp at graves' shoulder lightly, head bowed forward. ] Tomorrow cannot come soon enough.
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[ past time, really. credence does not know what cost will be dragged from them but he won't let it be pulled from graves. this is his fight and his servant will not bear more suffering than necessary - no, he needs him along as a guide, as help if he can't return home on his own. he knows graves well enough to know that he may try to take on the cost himself and he would try to go without him if he could but there's just no way and he trusts no one else.
he smiles and it's tired - but then graves is right there touching his chin, his lip, and he sucks in a breath that's just barely shaking. his hand, damp from the bath, comes up to grasp at graves' shoulder lightly, head bowed forward. ] Tomorrow cannot come soon enough.