part 2:
Summary: episode 49. Conrad never hopes for something like before, so he sacrifices all for remembrance's sake.
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Now more than ever I served the king. Maybe to atone for what I broke, maybe as an apology for shed tears, or maybe just because there was nothing else to do. I lost myself in service without expecting any reward this time, or any trust. I resolved to just give, that I would give until I was no more.
Today I had to take action, to go and catch Yuuri falling from a cliff... Somehow I sensed the future need, something was in the air, whispering for me to hurry... an echo ... It had the same accent as this past trust and I ran... For a few minutes it was almost the same, I believed it... until I spoke up my relief to Yuuri and he did not acknowledge it... What a fool I was, our bond was no more.
On the beach... it hurt. How it hurt to see the pendant gone from his neck... it had become the symbol of this bond, my allegiance. But then I heard something totally unexpected, Yuuri wished to go back for it... and something washed over the hurt in my chest. It was splashing, cool, bordering cold, but soothing and wet, like fresh water from a well to a man lost in the desert.
The void slowly filled then, and I nearly wept with gratitude and disbelief and this something else... and I repeated my pledge to my sovereign. And when it was accepted I felt the connection again and with wet eyes I smiled to him.
I do not know if I can ever express how grateful, how thankful I am to have such a magnanimous king and master. His forgiveness is much as the sea's large unchanging depths. From now on I shall believe this bond to be unbreakable as it is soaked in my every cell, and one cannot break a steady flow of water.