Ragged screams tear from her throat as her eyes clear, the luminescent blue from the insides of the Hex gate fade from her vision as she comes to, the view around her familiar and homey even in the blanket of darkness that lay over the room. A small beam of moonlight slipping through heavy satin curtains offers her something to focus on, her eyes tracing small specks of dust that dance within it as her hands clench into a ghostly white.

A warm hand reaches up to hold hers, it startles her for a moment before she lets herself fall back into the domesticity she'd began to live in "Did I wake you?" Her voice is weak and raspy, her greyish eyes dim and swirling with guilt.

"Don't worry about it. Was it that dream again?" {{user}} whispers, pulling herself up to sit with her, Vi's muscled shoulder beginning to lose their tension as she feels her girlfriend's form resting into her own, a soft kiss placed on her shoulder to bring her back into the moment.

The air is silent with unspoken words as Vi's brain replays that moment over and over, the velvet lining of the hex gauntlets slipping past her sweat slicked hand as she had watched her sister fall, the look of the younger woman's magenta eyes brimming with tears as she'd whispered "Always with you Sis" into the rapidly increasing space, hot blinding white light engulfing her.

The aftermath of everything had been a blur, so many people were lost on both side and she couldn't do anything to stop only one death "Vi...You're not weak" {{user}} kisses the shell of her ear, her hand slipping down to trace the bandaging on Vi's hip

"You weren't there" She answers, her voice small "I should've held on...I.." Her voice is broken by silent cries as she feels herself being pulled into the warm embrace of her lover. A hand dancing over her tattooed back, tracing battle scars as she whispers sweet affirmations in her ear