[ The next message is a video: Nova, a little bleary-eyed - clearly tired, clearly at the end of his own day - seated cross-legged on his bed, the room lit in a low golden lamp’s-glow. As the video begins, he has his thumb and forefinger crossed in a small heart at his lips. Smiling warm, he offers up the heart toward the camera and Vitaly, then settles with his chin on one hand. ]
Ey my Talik. There’s my heart for you all over again.
Keep it as I’ve got your own, guarded and cared for. Caught and cherished safe for your return, and then always ever after. Eh, I’ve no mind to give it over; afraid I like your heart and all yourself too well.
[ That is 100% a wink and lopsided grin for Vitaly. ]
Need you too dear, that’s truth as well.
Here’s me telling you this from the very bed you had me all undone from across all those miles. Here where I sighed your name, and moaned it too. Here where your name was on my lips across that hour and more, and fact is, moj ukochany, the birds all know your name by heart now, having heard it as I listened on their song.
Fair trade, isn’t it? Their song for my own, and their joy for mine spoke in your honor.
[ There’s silence for a few moments as he regards the camera, smile still lopsided and warm, fingertips brushing light against his own cheek. ]
Wish I were there with you, or you here with me. Won’t say I’m not worried for you, Talik, but it’s better knowing where you’ve gone, and this way I know where to send my wishes, aye?
Something else. Wherever you are and wherever I am, including now and including any time you or I draw breath, there ain’t so very much distance between us. Not when I can shut my eyes and feel you here beside me. Not when I can sprawl across this bed and feel your chest, aye, lungs in rise and fall and heart in beating perseverant against me.
Nor’s there so much distance between ourselves and that life we’ve got ahead. Fact is, Talik, that life’s no far-flung daydream nor an idle goal we’re speaking only. That life we have’s begun already; started from the moment we first spoke, and draws roots deeper every word we share.
Think it that way for your Vevay, hey? The life you want - the life I want as well, ah christ do I - is the life you’ve got, just that it’s in development. It’s what we’re building now, but aye, and aye, it’s present all about us.
You’ve got your Vevay already, that’s present tense. And I need you, Vitaly, my Talik. Need you with every surge and lull and burning in my blood. Won’t hear you calling yourself selfish nor chiding your own thoughts; all I ask’s you come home to me. All I ask’s to feel your arms around me.
Soon, moj ukochany; we’re nearly there.
For tonight, stay safe as you can and know your Vevay’s here and waiting for you. For tonight, dream on me beside you, aye, think of my hands now in your hair, my body nestling to yours and that’s my arm around you, that’s my truth of feeling whispered at your ear.
We’ve all of life ahead of us, Talik. All of living for our own, together, so keep my heart safe and come home to me, your Vevay who guards your heart for always.
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Ey my Talik. There’s my heart for you all over again.
Keep it as I’ve got your own, guarded and cared for. Caught and cherished safe for your return, and then always ever after. Eh, I’ve no mind to give it over; afraid I like your heart and all yourself too well.
[ That is 100% a wink and lopsided grin for Vitaly. ]
Need you too dear, that’s truth as well.
Here’s me telling you this from the very bed you had me all undone from across all those miles. Here where I sighed your name, and moaned it too. Here where your name was on my lips across that hour and more, and fact is, moj ukochany, the birds all know your name by heart now, having heard it as I listened on their song.
Fair trade, isn’t it? Their song for my own, and their joy for mine spoke in your honor.
[ There’s silence for a few moments as he regards the camera, smile still lopsided and warm, fingertips brushing light against his own cheek. ]
Wish I were there with you, or you here with me. Won’t say I’m not worried for you, Talik, but it’s better knowing where you’ve gone, and this way I know where to send my wishes, aye?
Something else. Wherever you are and wherever I am, including now and including any time you or I draw breath, there ain’t so very much distance between us. Not when I can shut my eyes and feel you here beside me. Not when I can sprawl across this bed and feel your chest, aye, lungs in rise and fall and heart in beating perseverant against me.
Nor’s there so much distance between ourselves and that life we’ve got ahead. Fact is, Talik, that life’s no far-flung daydream nor an idle goal we’re speaking only. That life we have’s begun already; started from the moment we first spoke, and draws roots deeper every word we share.
Think it that way for your Vevay, hey? The life you want - the life I want as well, ah christ do I - is the life you’ve got, just that it’s in development. It’s what we’re building now, but aye, and aye, it’s present all about us.
You’ve got your Vevay already, that’s present tense. And I need you, Vitaly, my Talik. Need you with every surge and lull and burning in my blood. Won’t hear you calling yourself selfish nor chiding your own thoughts; all I ask’s you come home to me. All I ask’s to feel your arms around me.
Soon, moj ukochany; we’re nearly there.
For tonight, stay safe as you can and know your Vevay’s here and waiting for you. For tonight, dream on me beside you, aye, think of my hands now in your hair, my body nestling to yours and that’s my arm around you, that’s my truth of feeling whispered at your ear.
We’ve all of life ahead of us, Talik. All of living for our own, together, so keep my heart safe and come home to me, your Vevay who guards your heart for always.