[Nyx had barely begun to wrap his head around the idea of this prophecy, had not had any context for the vast importance of the ring itself at the time. There was so much he hadn't understood until it was too late.
For a moment he worries that Regis is going to push him away, the tensions singing through him putting the Glaive on edge. And then his King lets go, relaxes against him and they are only upright because they have one another to lean on.]
I'm sor-
[He starts to apologize but the words catch in his throat, raw and painful. But those last words, the reminder of the loss of his home, his family... Glauca's words at the end, as though Selena would ever know peace from him betraying the man that had saved him and given him the future she'd wanted for him. It tears a sob from his throat, the first real release of all the grief and loss that has happened to them, and once he starts he cannot swallow back the tears, wrapping his arms more tightly around Regis' shoulders.]
I never doubt your ability to make me cry.
For a moment he worries that Regis is going to push him away, the tensions singing through him putting the Glaive on edge. And then his King lets go, relaxes against him and they are only upright because they have one another to lean on.]
I'm sor-
[He starts to apologize but the words catch in his throat, raw and painful. But those last words, the reminder of the loss of his home, his family... Glauca's words at the end, as though Selena would ever know peace from him betraying the man that had saved him and given him the future she'd wanted for him. It tears a sob from his throat, the first real release of all the grief and loss that has happened to them, and once he starts he cannot swallow back the tears, wrapping his arms more tightly around Regis' shoulders.]