A gift. Because he’d been dying, these moments of healing weren’t guaranteed. He nods somberly.
It brings him back to those strange moments after he’d collapsed in the snow. Raju had been there. He remembers his voice - specifics beyond him, naturally - the way he’d been held and shifted about until there’d been enough comfort to sleep. He remembers very vaguely speaking to him, but try as he might he hasn’t been able to recall what was said.
“You were there,” he says after a moment, studying the very clean bandages that get removed from him. Raju is too attentive for anything else. “When I wasn’t aware of anything else, I knew you were there.”
A bit like a guardian angel, if he believed in that nonsense. No, more like a human amulet, a charm, something to keep away the bad energy in the world, that’s Raju to him.
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A gift. Because he’d been dying, these moments of healing weren’t guaranteed. He nods somberly.
It brings him back to those strange moments after he’d collapsed in the snow. Raju had been there. He remembers his voice - specifics beyond him, naturally - the way he’d been held and shifted about until there’d been enough comfort to sleep. He remembers very vaguely speaking to him, but try as he might he hasn’t been able to recall what was said.
“You were there,” he says after a moment, studying the very clean bandages that get removed from him. Raju is too attentive for anything else. “When I wasn’t aware of anything else, I knew you were there.”
A bit like a guardian angel, if he believed in that nonsense. No, more like a human amulet, a charm, something to keep away the bad energy in the world, that’s Raju to him.
“How do you thank someone in your native tongue?”