Exactly what I was thinking. You know that I'll keep your secrets for as long as you want me to. No one, not even the others, will know until you're ready for them to.

[ And if she never is ready, well, then K'thisru will just continue holding her silence. Never mind that at some point, she imagines that Aymeric and Alkaid will have to let someone know that they are engaged. Unless they intend to keep their marriage a secret, which in her mind, is far more work than it's worth. ]

We have. [ Like Alkaid, she recalls that confrontation with Thordan and how it ended. She would be lying if she said that it did not still trouble her. Thordan was Aymeric's father, and they killed him. It is a hard thing to come to terms with, and she isn't sure she ever will. ] I remember him saying that.

[ She glances down at her hands before she looks back at Alkaid, a question of her own in her eyes. ]

Now? I'm not sure. [ To her, even though only remnants of Allag remain, they still seem miles ahead of anything they in Eorzea have managed. ] Do you think we could ever be like them? And... have we made the future brighter, even a little?

[ They won a victory in Ishgard, but what about the bigger fight? As long as conflict still remains, it seems to her that they still have a long way to go. ]