[She hasn't the heart, nor the desire, to tell him that studies of the aetherial sea have proven that once a soul is submerged within it, the sea slowly but inexorably washes clean all the memories that come with it, until at last the soul is pure and ready to return to the world once more.]
[But reality has little part in romance, even for practical people.]
I cannot promise you the same, knowing what I do about the ultimate fate of my soul. [She reaches across herself, then, to place a hand gently on his cheek. If before she had taken memory for granted, his words have given her cause to mend that error. In that moment, then, she locks gazes with him, and burns his eyes into her mind and her soul, so deeply that they will last until it inevitably disperses.]
But I will remember you for as long as there is a me to do so. And even once that ends, we will have made the world a better place even if through no other way than what we have shared, and will share. That effect will ripple on, and though those ripples may drift far from the shore whence they started, they will touch and shift all the more for doing so. In that respect, you and I and we will never be forgotten, until the very last moment, where time itself no longer has meaning.
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[She hasn't the heart, nor the desire, to tell him that studies of the aetherial sea have proven that once a soul is submerged within it, the sea slowly but inexorably washes clean all the memories that come with it, until at last the soul is pure and ready to return to the world once more.]
[But reality has little part in romance, even for practical people.]
I cannot promise you the same, knowing what I do about the ultimate fate of my soul. [She reaches across herself, then, to place a hand gently on his cheek. If before she had taken memory for granted, his words have given her cause to mend that error. In that moment, then, she locks gazes with him, and burns his eyes into her mind and her soul, so deeply that they will last until it inevitably disperses.]
But I will remember you for as long as there is a me to do so. And even once that ends, we will have made the world a better place even if through no other way than what we have shared, and will share. That effect will ripple on, and though those ripples may drift far from the shore whence they started, they will touch and shift all the more for doing so. In that respect, you and I and we will never be forgotten, until the very last moment, where time itself no longer has meaning.