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half as long, twice as bright by Anonymous
Fandoms: Ginga Eiyuu Densetsu | Legend of the Galactic Heroes
11 Mar 2020
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Summary
Reinhard wants to give Kircheis the universe, but all Kircheis wants is Reinhard. It’s always been true, and it’s always been promised. He’d thought it easy all that time ago; obvious, non-negotiable. Of course he’d belonged to Kircheis and Kircheis alone. Of course he saw them in the garden again, around that table with Annerose, older and wiser, unburdened rulers at the helm of a new universe.
But now, even wrapped in Kircheis’ arms, Reinhard feels himself slipping like sand through his fingers. And when he dreams, it’s not of the garden, of the sunlight and laughter and warmth of his small family; it’s of a starless black sky, and a velvet-lined throne.
In which a star dies in a cold and vast universe, and for once is remembered—for better or worse.