As they embrace in the stillness of the hospital room, the starlight falling through the windows seems oppressive. Clinging to him, with her face pressed against his chest underneath his neck, she articulates with a tortured persistence full of hope.
Ridley: “I dreamt of my end. I was in an ocean of chaos.”
Yun simply listens.
Ridley: “Was it the sickness, or my intuition? I was scared, and alone.
Yun: I'm here.
Ridley: But then, I could see you. Your face. Your true face. The purest thing imaginable. And I felt peace.”
Yun: …
Ridley raises her face and looks into Yun’s eyes, he looks like the portrait she drew, but much sadder
Ridley: "Nothing else matters. You must know, that, I’ll always love you.”
Yun puts his hand behind her head, her hair running through his fingers, and they kiss.
Yun: I love you, too. I'll never be far from you anymore. I promise.
Ridley: Because of you, I knew kindness.
*While kissing*
Ridley: I know you think I am bright and, strong. But the truth is, maybe, I, I hate this world. Nothing in it makes sense to me. It’s all pain to me.
*Kissing*
Ridley: But then I remember, that the world can’t be so bad…*kissing* because it houses you.
Yun: Ridley…
“You.”
She nudges him downward, and he, holding the back of her head, he pulls her closely toward him. He brushes her hair behind her ear while his other hand slides firmly down her back. She moves to kiss his neck, and utters to him "the drugs won't work." She kisses upwards, moves her face closer to his, purposefully brushes her cheek against his, and then whispers into his ear, (teeth visible and lower jaw slightly forward from usual, Keira Knightley style) "You are the antidote. You are the only thing that can fix me."
As if in a trance, Ridley grabs a hold of him, rubs across it and presses it toward her: “Let me experience this at least once.”
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behind the door, a figure eavesdrops.