[And if not in the darkness, then immediately once the light returned - though, perhaps, Idia's hair would have made finding him in the darkness easier. But they weren't proper partners. They weren't anything to each other, not really, not at the end of the day, beyond the fact that they were from the same world, but...

Well.

This world could have brought in Malleus and Che'nya, for all the connection seemed to actually matter.

But they'd done what was expected of them, now. They found each other - belatedly, sure, but there they were - and Idia wanted to carve his existence into his memory, while still threatening to halfass it - or so he felt, at the moment.

That wouldn't do.]

You think I planned this, Idia?

[He steps a little closer, closes a little more of what slim gap there is between them.]

I don't like pain, you know. It's scary. But scars are memorable, you know? You want me to remember you, right? I'll forget you out of spite if all you do is hurt me through yourself.