Not long after V arrived, he had fallen asleep on Xiao Yi's soaked shoulder.
Xiao Yi glanced down at the sleeping man and slowly peeled off his head, then cradled his head as he brought it onto a throw pillow. After the upper half of his body was situated, Xiao Yi pulled at his friend's legs and placed them onto the couch as well before throwing a blanket over his body.
After laying him down, he went to his computer and opened up Valley of Light, as he didn't trust V to wake himself up if he got up in the morning before him. That bastard would likely just get up and walk out the door in embarrassment.
He hummed as he logged onto Sleepy, the conversation from before still weighing on his mind.
Despite everything V had done to help him, he couldn't say a word to comfort him. How could he even begin to comfort someone in V's situation? V had wanted kids ever since he was a teenager. When girls were dreaming about their perfect weddings, V was dreaming about mini versions of himself and his future wife running around, how he'd be the best father to them and had even created a list of prospective names he had carefully written out after researching their meanings.
V was an anomaly in his generation of wealthy young masters, he didn't want a kid due to pressure from his family or the need to have an heir for himself, he simply wanted a kid because he wanted to be a dad.
These were all things he talked about while drunk, and although he seemed a bit embarrassed about the list of names, Xiao Yi could see the pride in his eyes as he talked about where he wanted to take them, how he wanted to play sports with them and go on local weekend trips with them often.
To lose that chance without even knowing was the most gruesome wound to the heart that his wife could give him.
As soon as his character logged onto the game, he found himself greeted by Nightmare's character in front of him, sitting in his backyard and seemingly poking and probing at his garden.
"…"
[Sleepy]: What are you doing?
The other blood elf looked up briefly before looking back at the plants, deliberately pulling at one of his herbs.
[Nightmare]: Tending to the garden. If you left it any longer, they would have wilted.
Wilted…
Xiao Yi looked at the timer and saw that there were indeed only thirty minutes left on some of the herbs.
He hadn't been playing as much recently with how hectic his life had been, so this assassination target had taken the opportunity to break into his manor and 'steal' his produce. He chuckled at the thought and his character moved to crouch down next to Nightmare, pulling up the garden at speeds that a visitor couldn't achieve.
As they got to work, they talked.
[Nightmare]: Where have you been?
[Sleepy]: Busy.
He thought about his response before adding.
[Sleepy]: Life was a bit hectic.
[Nightmare]: I understand, no need to explain. I thought you might have quit.
[Sleepy]: I haven't completed my professions yet…