[It's a show, steady progress, easier that he expected really. Having someone to lean on helps immensely, after all. Someone he's missed, waited for in silence...

But it's not so simple as that, either. Not as harmless as a single soul inhabiting a vessel. And he's already found that he's not very good at speaking to the other half of this body... but Melqal's question somehow comes as a surprise.]

Melqal...

[He hasn't changed a bit. Morax finds it a relief really, and he curls his tail a little tighter around the other man. It's a gentle reassurance.]

... it is ultimately up to him, but I have no intention of just giving up on him. As I said to him, it is... a difficult circumstance, but I would like to know more about him.

[There's part of him that thinks it might be easier if he hadn't ever awakened, if he'd just been lost to the elements in the end. He's glad it wasn't that way, but still.]

I had the same feeling. Whatever he went through, I... well. You know as well as I why I think it's important to... see that he knows that he's more than his past.

[If that wasn't true, Morax knows he wouldn't be the way he is now. He certainly wouldn't have had someone willing to both deal him away and return besides.]

I will not promise it would be the same, but I suspect it wouldn't be... that different. Simply listening to him, there was a sense of familiarity, before.

[The entrance is drawing nearer now, he thinks. That's good... at the very least, it'll be nice to feel the sun again.]