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In which Killian considers proposing after Emma’s visions intensify, and he muses on his choice in rings. 

It’s a strange feeling – to be told the woman you love is
fated for death.

He’s considered it, of course. Known the risks of pirate and
Savior, known that chasing monsters throughout realms was bound to have its consequences.
But he – he didn’t consider that it might be so soon. That just as a future was
beginning to materialize for them – his return from the dead, her gentle smiles
and sleep tangled hair, their boots lined neat just behind the door – that it
might be snatched from his grasp. He’s always had trouble holding onto things,
he knows, he just thought perhaps –

It’s stranger still, for a man as old as he, to only want
more time.

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