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[hagrides]

He is. Better than he should be, really. It would save him a great deal of pain if he cared less for me.

[too late we're going to have this discussion]

[doctorize]

[well fine I guess we are having this discussion!!]

Ah? What makes you say that?

[hagrides]

...There is a Ritual. The passing of the Nightmare King's flame from one vessel to the next. My own flame will burn out, and my child will live on.

I have long accepted it as the fate of all who bear the name 'Grimm'. Brumm has not.

[doctorize]

[Oh.]

Why? I mean... is it really necessary for you to die just to pass a title like that on to another?

[hagrides]

It is more than a title. It is the divine essence that allows any Grimm to live. Without it, my child will die in my place.

[And he cannot allow that.]

[doctorize]

But...

[He hesitates, caught off guard by how much that genuinely bothers him on some level, before he tries again.]

That sort of ritual doesn't have to take place here, does it? It might not even work if attempted in a place like this.

[hagrides]

It does not. Rest assured that my end will not occur until I return home.

[It's just that when he does, that end is in a matter of days, or perhaps even hours.]

[doctorize]

Oh.

[Then why go home at all? Why not find a way to just stay here forever?

... But, he doesn't voice that. Danny may not want to go back home to die and can't see why anyone else would accept that kind of fate, but he doesn't want to give away that's where his own thoughts are at here.]

[hagrides]

I am sorry to have troubled you, my friend. It was not my intention.

[doctorize]

Ah, it's alright... [Or, well, it's not, but--] I did ask for details didn't I?

[hagrides]

So you did. And perhaps I could have found a better time to tell you.

[Danny's already having a rough go of it without bringing Grimm's impending death into the situation.]

[doctorize]

Is there ever such a thing as a good time to talk about something like that?

[hagrides]

I suppose not. But it is... painful, I feel, to cause someone dear to me pain through my own destined fate.

[He has no say in it, but he still feels like he's at fault.]

[doctorize]

[For a moment, Danny lifts his good hand to... what? He's not sure what he had been planning on doing with it, a half-aborted attempt at maybe touching the other's face, but he drops his hand drops back down awkwardly as he sighs.]

Somehow it seems we ended up on another rather depressing topic of discussion here.

[hagrides]

Indeed. I was trying not to do that.

[The aborted attempt is enough for Grimm to reach to take Danny's hand in his. As ever, he is pleasantly warm.]

[doctorize]

[There's a pause, and then Danny manages a smile as he squeezes his fingers around Grimm's hand.]

Well regardless, I'm glad that you came to visit. It was far too quiet here on my own.

[hagrides]

Thank you for the invitation. I would be pleased to visit you anytime you wished.

[Squeeze back!]