"I believe you," Vax answered, though he looked away. Mostly because he couldn't function if he let himself think of it any differently. He was barely functional as it was.

"...I miss her so fucking much, Percy." His heart broke across his face as he said it, no more or less than it had in all this time, but he'd never quite said the words aloud. They clung thick in his throat, like a sob. It was such a stupidly obvious thing, and such an understatement at that. But no one else here knew Vex'ahlia to be able to understand what he meant.

Percy loved her, too.