[she pulls the blankets closer to them, wrapping them up. breathes in the ocean air, fresh and clean.]

Couldn't have predicted being yanked into a two month murder village, really. [she says, lightly, pressing a kiss to the shell of his ear, to right underneath his earlobe, at his neck.] I don't blame you for thinking it. You had... everything taken from you, I can't imagine how fucking hopeless that must've felt.

[it doesn't have to be hopeless now. nothing will ever replace what he lost, and she would never want to replace it. but he does have a home, with her. that will never be in question.]

... You still remember the name you had before?

[i imagine hoyo isn't nice enough to have a real canon name for him but there's no way she wouldn't mention it]