And my cage dissolves

Teen And Up Audiences | No Archive Warnings Apply | Xenoblade Chronicles 2 (Video Game)

M/M | for SilverWolf96 | 100 words | 2023-02-12 | the lamb | AO3

Adel Orudou | Addam Origo/Minochi | Cole | Minoth

Minochi | Cole | Minoth, Adel Orudou | Addam Origo

Drabble, Inspired by Music, Source: Genesis, Source: Peter Gabriel

"That easy, huh?"

"That easy," Addam repeated. "Or, perhaps not so much easy as simple. Straightforward, if you will."

It wasn't just straightforwardness, though. There was indirectness, obsfuscation; not making your intentions, for your instructions, or even your feelings, clear.

But this...this was raw, unstaked care, laid from one person to another. This was unconditional, and thus an ouroboros of mutual need from start to finish, end to end.

"I will, Addam," Minoth replied quietly, to a question that hadn't really been asked, but also wasn't waiting to catch him on technicality of unanswer. "As well as I can."