[Without even thinking, his hand comes off the wall and his arms fold around her, not pulling her tighter to him, just resting around her shoulders and waist. He does pull back from her face a little to meet her eyes.]
[She stares into his eyes for a good long moment - clear, not glassy, the windows to his true soul - finally answering as she cups his cheek.]
I... I went ten years into the future, with Alice, Katsuki, Belle, Gumshoe... but we were all still in Somnius, and Vaeros... he'd hypnotized us, for good...
[The hand on his cheek starts to quiver, and the one still around him tries to pull him closer.]
Y-you and I, we were married... we had a child, but he was named after Vaeros! We all worshipped him! We were happy, but we weren't us! And we saw me as a traitor... Corrin, Aurora, I sent Webby after me, to take me to Vaeros, and he threatened to-!
[She grips his vest perhaps a little too tightly.]
I thought I'd never get back - that none of us would...!
[Oh, that sounded like a nightmare. It reminded him of Gregarius, and that wasn't something he wanted to be reminded of.]
Jasmine, that will never happen. How many people have tried to hypnotize us or make us serve them, and they've never succeeded.
[He offers her a slight smirk.]
I think that crazy old lady said that he was trying to do a spell and it backfired. Maybe trying to make us worship him was the spell. He already failed. And even then, he could never turn us against each other.
[As if in reassurance, he lightly cups her cheek with one hand and leans down, pressing his lips to hers in a gentle kiss.]
I know. We had to do anything we could to ensure it'd never come true. He can never take us like that.
[She's not arguing with him - obviously, they all returned safe, they succeeded in retrieving the crystal's shards. But she can't deny how assuring it is for him to remind her anyway, of just how much they've done to earn this future.
Their future.
So when he cups her cheek back, she can't help but give him a small smile.] Never.
[...The kiss starts gentle, but when Jasmine kisses in return it's almost out of starvation; it's much deeper and more urgent. And all this time, she never did loosen her grip behind him.]
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What happened? Are you okay?
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I... I went ten years into the future, with Alice, Katsuki, Belle, Gumshoe... but we were all still in Somnius, and Vaeros... he'd hypnotized us, for good...
[The hand on his cheek starts to quiver, and the one still around him tries to pull him closer.]
Y-you and I, we were married... we had a child, but he was named after Vaeros! We all worshipped him! We were happy, but we weren't us! And we saw me as a traitor... Corrin, Aurora, I sent Webby after me, to take me to Vaeros, and he threatened to-!
[She grips his vest perhaps a little too tightly.]
I thought I'd never get back - that none of us would...!
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Jasmine, that will never happen. How many people have tried to hypnotize us or make us serve them, and they've never succeeded.
[He offers her a slight smirk.]
I think that crazy old lady said that he was trying to do a spell and it backfired. Maybe trying to make us worship him was the spell. He already failed. And even then, he could never turn us against each other.
[As if in reassurance, he lightly cups her cheek with one hand and leans down, pressing his lips to hers in a gentle kiss.]
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[She's not arguing with him - obviously, they all returned safe, they succeeded in retrieving the crystal's shards. But she can't deny how assuring it is for him to remind her anyway, of just how much they've done to earn this future.
Their future.
So when he cups her cheek back, she can't help but give him a small smile.] Never.
[...The kiss starts gentle, but when Jasmine kisses in return it's almost out of starvation; it's much deeper and more urgent. And all this time, she never did loosen her grip behind him.]