I’d like to try living, in the time I was granted

[ she's about as healthy as can be expected, in a situation like this: still hovering just short of uncomfortably thin, her mana reserves simultaneously stretched too far and being bolstered by something larger than herself. the FATE system is in full effect here to take most of that burden.

but all she manages is a watery laugh, blinking hard against tears. ]

I kind of wondered if I'd just imagined you.