[Rhea'li doesn't say anything for a long time, eating in silence. After all, there was a time where he had been slain by Black Rose and the Rejoining of the First successful. And there is another version of the star where he seemingly doesn't exist at all (at least, in this role.)
Eventually, he simply opts for-]
I had help.
[Meat continues to sizzle on the grill as Rhea'li plucks some of the more cooked pieces onto his plate.]
Why did you invite me to Amaurot?
[Hades could have simply left him to turn into beast and so return the First back to its path of destruction. And yet he had invited Rhea'li there, an invitation that would lead to his own downfall. Rhea'li had been aware of his own mortality since he was thrown into increasingly dangerous battle, but never did it feel it so keenly until he was sick with the Light. And then again, at the edge of the universe.]
no subject
Eventually, he simply opts for-]
I had help.
[Meat continues to sizzle on the grill as Rhea'li plucks some of the more cooked pieces onto his plate.]
Why did you invite me to Amaurot?
[Hades could have simply left him to turn into beast and so return the First back to its path of destruction. And yet he had invited Rhea'li there, an invitation that would lead to his own downfall. Rhea'li had been aware of his own mortality since he was thrown into increasingly dangerous battle, but never did it feel it so keenly until he was sick with the Light. And then again, at the edge of the universe.]