Barty's fingers found his way into Regulus' hair again and he smiled. It seemed so surreal. It was, wasn't it? "You are sweet."

Those words barely even seemed like his. "I'm sorry, darling. I've missed you, but it seems like... I'll have to remember. Learn how to be with you." Because there hadn't been anything like this in his world, for longer than he had even been alive before it all started. Some people were born for war. "I'm all right. I'm still me."

Clinging on to sanity, but maybe that had always been true too.