[Setsuna may have teased too much, but much as Gilgamesh would deny it, he likes it. He likes to be noticed, in this way; spoiled, in this way, with affectionate intention. His words are only noise, nothing truly threatening, and even though he wrestles with Setsuna in the water it's all in the name of bonding. Setsuna understood the world through his abilities as an Innovator, or at least once did, but Gilgamesh understood it through contact. He touches Setsuna, not only because he likes him, but because it's as close as he'll ever come to achieving the man's stated dream. An impossible dream, yet one he encourages nonetheless.
Gilgamesh cannot hear what Setsuna says, but that doesn't matter. He feels it. He sinks into those fingers, nothing like soft but everything like what he wants anyway. Enkidu could never said to be soft, either, hewed so roughly from clay, yet he enjoyed him all the same. This association might have been dangerous, borderline obsessive by now, yet he's fallen too deep to break away from it.
So Gilgamesh tells him in return, softly, in the same tongue:]
I am glad that you are alive. I am glad that we met.
[He tells him what he wants from everyone, but from those who would dare to know him most of all—]
Remember me. Remember this. Remember how grand this life was.
[—because it has always be and always will be Gilgamesh's greatest fear to be forgotten.]
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Gilgamesh cannot hear what Setsuna says, but that doesn't matter. He feels it. He sinks into those fingers, nothing like soft but everything like what he wants anyway. Enkidu could never said to be soft, either, hewed so roughly from clay, yet he enjoyed him all the same. This association might have been dangerous, borderline obsessive by now, yet he's fallen too deep to break away from it.
So Gilgamesh tells him in return, softly, in the same tongue:]
I am glad that you are alive. I am glad that we met.
[He tells him what he wants from everyone, but from those who would dare to know him most of all—]
Remember me. Remember this. Remember how grand this life was.
[—because it has always be and always will be Gilgamesh's greatest fear to be forgotten.]