"I have learned a lot since we last met, Lahabrea. Hydaelyn... whatever the intent, She has withheld information from me. Quite deliberately. To think I tried to stay neutral, and yet..."
How much of that brief talk about Zodiark with the Word of the Mother was true? Would She truly stoop to lies to set Her blessed on the path she wants? Or could it be the beliefs of Her summoner? She leans her cheek into her knuckles.
"I don't have any plans to change anything. Yet. But if push comes to shove... know that I can and will stop championing Hydaelyn. Not to turn to Zodiark, not simply to spite Her, but to find the truth with my own power. After all... I do not avail Her right now, either."
It is then that she notices the tiny bomb emerging from up his sleeve, making silly bomb faces. She blinks, and then snorts.
"Well, I seem to have at least this little one to try and be friends with."
The thought briefly enters her mind that perhaps Azem and Lahabrea had a similarly complex relationship -- was he always this stern? Even back before he'd lost most of his marbles, so to speak? The straight-laced elder and the rebellious wildcard... something to wonder about, perhaps.
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"I have learned a lot since we last met, Lahabrea. Hydaelyn... whatever the intent, She has withheld information from me. Quite deliberately. To think I tried to stay neutral, and yet..."
How much of that brief talk about Zodiark with the Word of the Mother was true? Would She truly stoop to lies to set Her blessed on the path she wants? Or could it be the beliefs of Her summoner? She leans her cheek into her knuckles.
"I don't have any plans to change anything. Yet. But if push comes to shove... know that I can and will stop championing Hydaelyn. Not to turn to Zodiark, not simply to spite Her, but to find the truth with my own power. After all... I do not avail Her right now, either."
It is then that she notices the tiny bomb emerging from up his sleeve, making silly bomb faces. She blinks, and then snorts.
"Well, I seem to have at least this little one to try and be friends with."
The thought briefly enters her mind that perhaps Azem and Lahabrea had a similarly complex relationship -- was he always this stern? Even back before he'd lost most of his marbles, so to speak? The straight-laced elder and the rebellious wildcard... something to wonder about, perhaps.