Don't say his name
"I know you are going through the same thing as me. I wish I could say what you are going through will end by giving in to whatever demands they give." Curtis stopped, unsure why he was stopping and in the process of wiping his hand over his mouth he spat out blood.
Princess Maelin's eyes shot to his again, the blood stained sleeve and her heart stopped. "Why are you coughing out so much blood?" She asked, concern in her voice, she was wondering what this is going to mean. "And frequently at that."
"It's the effect of it being such a long time I had to endure it, the silence is slowly eating away at my sanity." Curtis replied, concern in his voice too. "It's actually inevitable, but turns out I am too valuable to be discarded like the rest 'yet'.
Maelin thought for a moment, if this is how it is going to be from here on out, then all her efforts to be silent and convey her thoughts in a different way is going to be for naught?