[He listens quietly, though at the end of her words, Emet-Selch sighs.]
I would have to disagree that it's worth something. [A degree colder of a look, a harder tone.] In the here and now it makes your company that much more tolerable, yes, compared to that of your ignorant and untravelled brethren. But for all your beginnings of understanding, your rather unique travails- you'll die before you can make full use of them.
--But I can't argue that you've affected nothing.
[Reluctant, and he glances aside, ears pressed back. The nations, the lives she'd saved were ephemeral and meaningless, but the damage she'd done to the Ascian cause? His own death, the inevitable reckoning; it was only a matter of time before the remnants of Zodiark were put to the sword. That was a change that couldn't be undone.]
...You've caused great harm, and you'll never live long enough to truly understand it.
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I would have to disagree that it's worth something. [A degree colder of a look, a harder tone.] In the here and now it makes your company that much more tolerable, yes, compared to that of your ignorant and untravelled brethren. But for all your beginnings of understanding, your rather unique travails- you'll die before you can make full use of them.
--But I can't argue that you've affected nothing.
[Reluctant, and he glances aside, ears pressed back. The nations, the lives she'd saved were ephemeral and meaningless, but the damage she'd done to the Ascian cause? His own death, the inevitable reckoning; it was only a matter of time before the remnants of Zodiark were put to the sword. That was a change that couldn't be undone.]
...You've caused great harm, and you'll never live long enough to truly understand it.