[Now that we've decided Emet gets to join the vows just because! He clears his throat, looking just a little shy for a moment, embarrassed, but Vergil deserves the best vows? So he'll look Vergil in the eyes and take his hands. Switching to speaking in ancient, soft and lilting.]
Where shall I begin...? By telling you how much you have changed my life, given me meaning beyond restoring my people, a will to live for myself, for those I love, not just for the completion of duty? You have done all this and more. I feel I could speak for days and not touch on the proper words to express what you mean to me.
In truth, when we first talked and you revealed your own loneliness to me, it was a seed of compassion, of kinship that drew me to seek your friendship. Oh, Hades insisted I find a friend, that it would do me good, but in all those trapped in that hell, it was your humor, your loneliness, your personality and fire that made me wish to keep interacting with you, to try to open up as a real friend aught.
And it was you, again, who charmed me, when I was too foolishly set in my ways to contemplate romance for the long term, you were with me stubbornly, no matter how it hurt you. Your loyalty, your friendship, were more than I could have dreamed when we first met, and my old heart was no match, thoroughly conquered long before I even realized, and when I did finally wake up to it, how could I protest?
You have been like a breath of fresh air after too long buried deep in the earth, a spark to kindle long dying embers. As long as there is a future to be had with you, I will look forward to that future. I do not know how I came to deserve such a wonderful soul in my life, but I am grateful.
For vows, what can I do but promise you my life, my soul, my heart? Eternally. You will have me beside you until the stars dim, if we wish to see such sights. I will never allow you to feel loneliness, I will never let you escape me, and I will always protect you. I promise to spoil you shamelessly, to never take for granted the wonder that you are, to be yours, always and forever. And I do mean forever. And in turn, I vow you will be mine, without chance of escape or abandonment.
Re: DAY 19: ACTUAL WEDDING