Re: Death / Destiny - The Garden (warning for sads)
Mmm. [He agrees with little more than a hum of acquiescence. He will leave when he has need of it, he will stay otherwise. And he has given his word that he will visit her in Marvel, for as long as she chooses to make it her home.
She doesn't need to say what she's thanking him for - he knows.
He follows her path out of his garden, listens to her footsteps as they echo on the stone path, hears when her footsteps slow and stop, when they start again. And though she walks this path alone, his awareness doesn't leave her.
It isn't until she finishes the path she's chosen that he opens his book again. It is done.]