It's lying here that he understands again what he's already understood for a long time. This bliss--not Nobility, but human. Why he's a Hunter, letting them hire him so they can continue to be born, to fall in love, to get married, to grow old, to even die on their own terms with such short lives. He does it for this bliss, to be glad in the knowledge they experience it.
His lashes flutter, and then he closes his eyes for a long moment of kaleidoscope darkness. They open again.]
I'm glad.
[He holds no bitterness to the idea he can't participate in any of these things (his own idea, his own imposed discipline). He's accepted the notion long ago. That kind of life is not for someone like him.
closes my eyes and lifts her up
It's lying here that he understands again what he's already understood for a long time. This bliss--not Nobility, but human. Why he's a Hunter, letting them hire him so they can continue to be born, to fall in love, to get married, to grow old, to even die on their own terms with such short lives. He does it for this bliss, to be glad in the knowledge they experience it.
His lashes flutter, and then he closes his eyes for a long moment of kaleidoscope darkness. They open again.]
I'm glad.
[He holds no bitterness to the idea he can't participate in any of these things (his own idea, his own imposed discipline). He's accepted the notion long ago. That kind of life is not for someone like him.
But all the same, he's glad. He's glad.]