[ She's quiet, watching the mask being dismissed along with the fading images of what now just looks like a shell of the radiant city she was shown. She's quiet as she takes it all in, realizing that these people made a hefty sacrifice so far beyond anything she could ever imagine.
She... doesn't feel any of what he's saying in regards to herself being even a fragment of what he's claimed these ancients were. If they were sundered as he says, then it's unlikely she ever would. The only connection she's even had to anything this great is through him and the fleeting fragments of visions she saw with his memories.
Visions brought upon through a blessing that... comes from a primal, apparently.
And yet, it still hurts to hear of it, even if she hasn't lived through the length of time he has. She's faced loss, why wouldn't she understand at least that much?
Her ears droop visibly, before she realizes her cheeks are wet and her eyes widen before she quickly looks aside and touches her face with her fingers. She's not one to cry openly— it took her a whole twelvesdamned year to cry in this place at all. So this sudden show of tears is as much of a surprise to her as it might be to anyone here. ]
... I'm sorry. I said I wouldn't— but it's still...
[ She quickly looks aside, wiping her cheeks with the back of her hands and trying to keep her voice level. He asked her not to give unsolicited pity and here she is doing just that... has this place just worn on her that much? ]
Suppose I'll have to think twice before I think of myself as being any form of insignificant, aye? N-not that an amazing Radiant Matriarch like myself could be anything less—
[ There's the feeblest attempt at humour there, a bit self-deprecating and yet— she sighs and looks back with a concerned look. ]
But .. if you weren't sundered...and you were the only ones tempered—
[ She meets his gaze now, her own growing thoughtful despite the obvious sadness she's feeling. ]
... then all this time, what've you been trying to achieve? If we are fragments of your people, then... what is your purpose now? After all of this, it can't just be something as black and white as you wanting the complete end of humanity as it is now, for example. What good would that do for you all?
[ She realizes it's a stupid example, but considering their world has constantly been in a state of the Warrior of Light protecting them from the denizens of the dark... surely he'd understand why she uses that example. ]
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She... doesn't feel any of what he's saying in regards to herself being even a fragment of what he's claimed these ancients were. If they were sundered as he says, then it's unlikely she ever would. The only connection she's even had to anything this great is through him and the fleeting fragments of visions she saw with his memories.
Visions brought upon through a blessing that... comes from a primal, apparently.
And yet, it still hurts to hear of it, even if she hasn't lived through the length of time he has. She's faced loss, why wouldn't she understand at least that much?
Her ears droop visibly, before she realizes her cheeks are wet and her eyes widen before she quickly looks aside and touches her face with her fingers. She's not one to cry openly— it took her a whole twelvesdamned year to cry in this place at all. So this sudden show of tears is as much of a surprise to her as it might be to anyone here. ]
... I'm sorry. I said I wouldn't— but it's still...
[ She quickly looks aside, wiping her cheeks with the back of her hands and trying to keep her voice level. He asked her not to give unsolicited pity and here she is doing just that... has this place just worn on her that much? ]
Suppose I'll have to think twice before I think of myself as being any form of insignificant, aye? N-not that an amazing Radiant Matriarch like myself could be anything less—
[ There's the feeblest attempt at humour there, a bit self-deprecating and yet— she sighs and looks back with a concerned look. ]
But .. if you weren't sundered...and you were the only ones tempered—
[ She meets his gaze now, her own growing thoughtful despite the obvious sadness she's feeling. ]
... then all this time, what've you been trying to achieve? If we are fragments of your people, then... what is your purpose now? After all of this, it can't just be something as black and white as you wanting the complete end of humanity as it is now, for example. What good would that do for you all?
[ She realizes it's a stupid example, but considering their world has constantly been in a state of the Warrior of Light protecting them from the denizens of the dark... surely he'd understand why she uses that example. ]