[ He shakes his head. To him, that seems like splitting hairs. ]
Is that not only focusing on nuance? I expect that it was important for him, but I do not see how our lives now and everything that makes us who we are ceases to matter or renders us not alive according to his standards.
[ Whatever those standards are. At her next words, his voice hardens with resolve. Taking a life is never an easy decision, and he knows that it is not one that either of the Warriors of Light take lightly. Although he does not mention it aloud, his thoughts have strayed to think about his father. But his thoughts concerning him are brief and he focuses back on Alkaid, meeting her gaze. ]
Lantaa, what can I do? It seems clear that everything that you have seen about these days long past has left a mark upon you, and I would venture as far as to say it has become a weight upon your shoulders. How might I help remove it?
[ He barely finishes speaking those words before she begins speaking again herself, and what she says causess his grip upon her hands to tighten just a fraction. He knows that she loves and misses him, and he has seen just how deeply both of those things run. They run as deeply as his own love for her and longing when she is far away from him. ]
I have never doubted that for a moment, simply because the amount of love I have for you is just as great. And you have seen quite clearly that I miss you greatly when you are away.
[ He is having to reframe his thoughts in light of the information he has been given. ]
If I have understood your words correctly, we lack a way to discern whether or not we were together in those days long gone and just how deeply that togetherness went. But I- [ His lips turn up once again into a smile. ] I choose to believe that we were every bit as close as we are now.
[ And then, naturally, that raises the question of what happened to them when that ancient world was sundered. But he decides they can address one thing at a time. ]
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Is that not only focusing on nuance? I expect that it was important for him, but I do not see how our lives now and everything that makes us who we are ceases to matter or renders us not alive according to his standards.
[ Whatever those standards are. At her next words, his voice hardens with resolve. Taking a life is never an easy decision, and he knows that it is not one that either of the Warriors of Light take lightly. Although he does not mention it aloud, his thoughts have strayed to think about his father. But his thoughts concerning him are brief and he focuses back on Alkaid, meeting her gaze. ]
Lantaa, what can I do? It seems clear that everything that you have seen about these days long past has left a mark upon you, and I would venture as far as to say it has become a weight upon your shoulders. How might I help remove it?
[ He barely finishes speaking those words before she begins speaking again herself, and what she says causess his grip upon her hands to tighten just a fraction. He knows that she loves and misses him, and he has seen just how deeply both of those things run. They run as deeply as his own love for her and longing when she is far away from him. ]
I have never doubted that for a moment, simply because the amount of love I have for you is just as great. And you have seen quite clearly that I miss you greatly when you are away.
[ He is having to reframe his thoughts in light of the information he has been given. ]
If I have understood your words correctly, we lack a way to discern whether or not we were together in those days long gone and just how deeply that togetherness went. But I- [ His lips turn up once again into a smile. ] I choose to believe that we were every bit as close as we are now.
[ And then, naturally, that raises the question of what happened to them when that ancient world was sundered. But he decides they can address one thing at a time. ]