seven. video. make ash & leave the dust behind.

[indispensible]

This seems like a terrible idea.

[Admiral, Vin is severely critical of your methods.]

Does anyone know when it stops?

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[indispensible]

I know you will.

[She stills, quiet and content, knowing he doesn't lie to her. Somehow, some way, he will find her properly - whether it's his doing or hers, they will be united again. It doesn't seem possible that things should be otherwise. They are Vin and Elend; they belong together. The universe is cruel, but not so cruel as not to realize that.]

[Just because she's planning on giving the universe a nudge doesn't mean that's wrong.]

I miss you. Your voice and your presence. But you're here, too. [She touches the space over her heart.] So I'm never alone, Elend, not really.

[elend]

[ She says that and it makes his heart want to stop. If it can. He's dead already; what worse could it do? But her words strike him to the core, because it's romantic and almost poetic, and Vin is not those things. She is practical and careful and far more vulnerable than she seems. Those words aren't poetry. They're just Vin, opening herself up and letting him see her. That's why it cuts so close, and why it hurts so much. ]

No. I don't suppose you are.

That's how I felt, you know. In those last moments, against Ruin. I felt that you were with me, and that was all I needed to know. I think you were beyond my reach then, as well. But I still felt you. I always will.

[indispensible]

We were together there.

[Technically, geographically, spatially it isn't true. But in every way that matters, it is. She says what she thinks to him, the things she wouldn't say to anyone else, and even if they're not pretty they're true.]

[She's not a poet. She's a killer. Elend is her poet. Always will be.]

[Her fingers brush the screen again. She can't feel him, but in some of the ways that matter, she can.]

I love you.

[elend]

[ He moves his hand towards her, as though she's on the other side of a window and there's only glass between them. Glass, and not a whole lifetime. ]

I love you, too. I always will.
I'll stay right here, for as long as I possibly can.

[indispensible]

I know. I know you will.

[And she is content to stay here until he's forced to go - until the walls come down again and she's alone without him.]