[Thankfully for Vex, Ace is an open book. He’s never been good at hiding how he feels, has never really bothered to, even with total strangers. So with people he considers family? Well. He might as well be screaming every single thing he’s thinking.]

........ yeah, there is. [Ace sighs, almost like he’s blowing all the air out of his body, practically melting down into Trinket’s fur as he does.]. I think, in whatever past life I lived, I had a huge family.

[People all around him, drinking and feasting and celebrating, sitting with him during quiet nights around crackling fires, screaming crying and bleeding clashing and clashing and falling, staining ice and stone and sea red and all he can do is watch as the only family he had left charge to their deaths trying to save someone who never deserved being saved—]

And... I think a lot of them died because of me.