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[personal profile] hotfixer 2025-03-31 02:50 am (UTC)(link)
You chose what you felt was right in life.

And now, after that life, you can make a different choice. But it's better that this choice be for yourself, not someone else. At least not for someone who wouldn't do the same for you.
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[personal profile] spiritbalm 2025-03-31 02:55 am (UTC)(link)
I'd be a fugitive for the rest of my life if I went back. And that would have been worth it. But he did not want me then.
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[personal profile] hotfixer 2025-03-31 03:00 am (UTC)(link)
You should go where you are wanted. Where you can tell that you are wanted without having to guess.

[ and because she is reading the other branches of this conversation: ]

Even if you leave behind your home, you'll still carry its memories. You'll still have it in your heart.
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[personal profile] spiritbalm 2025-03-31 04:34 am (UTC)(link)
The funny part of it is if I had died years ago, if I had found myself here, the choice to leave would have been a miracle - it would have been everything I prayed for all those years. I would never have found myself hesitating for even a moment.

And now, I think I will miss a great deal of it.
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[personal profile] hotfixer 2025-03-31 04:37 am (UTC)(link)
Anyone would miss their home.

Even somewhere that hurt or rejected them was still home. It's still where all of your good memories came from. Where you grew up. Where you fell in love.

You can miss the good parts of a bad thing while still being glad to escape it. Attachments aren't so binary that it's one or the other.
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[personal profile] spiritbalm 2025-03-31 04:43 am (UTC)(link)
Even if home is a prison tower where I was basically a slave?

[ he gets it. this pretty much sums it up.]

... What about all of you? Will you stay here?
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[personal profile] hotfixer 2025-03-31 04:46 am (UTC)(link)
Even then. It's okay to miss things that hurt you.

Things, people, places. Any of it.

I'm not dead, so I'll be returning to my world for as long as I'm able.
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[personal profile] spiritbalm 2025-03-31 03:42 pm (UTC)(link)
I missed Ferelden quite a bit when I was in Kirkwall. I find myself thinking about the Circle sometimes. And now that I am here, there are even memories of Kirkwall that do not seem so terrible in the light of reflection, even though it was a horrible place full of horrible people.

As long as you're able?
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[personal profile] hotfixer 2025-03-31 06:40 pm (UTC)(link)
I just think that you deserve better. Whatever you decide better is to you.