T is for Tears
Gojyo tells stories. When he's in the mood, he just starts talking. Stories about small families in distant lands, playing in the woods, father and mother and children laughing and happy. Stories about princes fighting for the sake of their land; their triumphant return home to family. Stories of ugly ducklings, princesses cursed with disfigurement, exiled warriors. Stories of belonging and home and happily ever afters. Hakkai hears him out carefully, waiting for the end of these loosely interconnected epics, when Gojyo's eyes close and it's not sweat that trickles down his face, because that's when he needs holding most.