[It's part of the reason he'd been willing to come to Skyhold, after all. The plan had been to finish out his usefulness serving and being around people rather than being out, alone, trying to heal and help and always looking over his shoulder.]
People are... People need people. Connections. It's worth the risk in the end.
[Hopefully. He hates the risk Nathaniel is taking even as he desperately wants what they have; it's less Anders' heart and far more Nate's physical self that Anders worries about being hurt.]
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It is. And it's exhausting to be lonely.
[It's part of the reason he'd been willing to come to Skyhold, after all. The plan had been to finish out his usefulness serving and being around people rather than being out, alone, trying to heal and help and always looking over his shoulder.]
People are... People need people. Connections. It's worth the risk in the end.
[Hopefully. He hates the risk Nathaniel is taking even as he desperately wants what they have; it's less Anders' heart and far more Nate's physical self that Anders worries about being hurt.]
There's pain, but there's a great deal of joy.