[ Feeling important to someone may be the greatest high in the world, more intoxicating than any drug or any blood. Over the years, worthless wretch started to feel less like an insult and more like a fact of life. To matter to someone is overwhelming in the best sort of way, his body overcome with warm, fuzzy feelings. ]
Every day with you lessens the pain of the past a little more.
[ Because Iorveth doesn't like to hear that his presence 'makes up' for Astarion's suffering. Still, Iorveth makes him so deliriously happy that he can't imagine going back and doing anything differently. All of the sadness and anger and loneliness was only a precursor to him. ]
—I want to keep you forever.
[ An unfair reminder that the rest of Iorveth's life is not exactly the rest of his life. ]
no subject
Every day with you lessens the pain of the past a little more.
[ Because Iorveth doesn't like to hear that his presence 'makes up' for Astarion's suffering. Still, Iorveth makes him so deliriously happy that he can't imagine going back and doing anything differently. All of the sadness and anger and loneliness was only a precursor to him. ]
—I want to keep you forever.
[ An unfair reminder that the rest of Iorveth's life is not exactly the rest of his life. ]