this such a claustrophobic story and full of such pain i feel a bit wounded by it.
i love what they offer each other and what they hold back too - aberforth only really opening up after severus is asleep, and severus still palpably his difficult critical self even though he's cracked open with despair and loneliness.
your writing is fabulous - the way it circles round and round in darkness, closer and closer to the end, and offers only the smallest moments of escape. amazing.