it's a topic not too unrelated by their last talk. in a way, yuwon is surprised she is choosing to address it again. it's true it was easier for him to think of things within the lens that he always had. to focus and double down on his objectives from back in the tower; it left less room for useless emotions and lingering sentiments. normally, he would have regarded the topic with just deafening silence, but he can tell it probably took a lot of courage on rodya's part to have even asked. an unspoken conviction...
more than that, he attempts to assuage her: ] I won't die. [ or let her die. it's firm, as if he didn't believe in a hint of it going otherwise. rather, he couldn't afford to have things go that way, whether this was their original bodies or not. ]
But, if it will help ease your mind. I don't really know. I have never really had someone by my side like this before. I had companions, but as you know, it's not like they remember me now. [ but, he seems to speak of it as if he were speaking of facts, removed from himself. more of a habit than an act of defiance, or dismissal. which likely shows on his countenance, and the way his brows furrow slightly in focus. ]
Even talking like this... you might be the first. [ at least in this context. even if they may have often discussed what they might do when the outer gods were defeated, it's distinctly different. ] You once mentioned traveling... Should we?
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it's a topic not too unrelated by their last talk. in a way, yuwon is surprised she is choosing to address it again. it's true it was easier for him to think of things within the lens that he always had. to focus and double down on his objectives from back in the tower; it left less room for useless emotions and lingering sentiments. normally, he would have regarded the topic with just deafening silence, but he can tell it probably took a lot of courage on rodya's part to have even asked. an unspoken conviction...
more than that, he attempts to assuage her: ] I won't die. [ or let her die. it's firm, as if he didn't believe in a hint of it going otherwise. rather, he couldn't afford to have things go that way, whether this was their original bodies or not. ]
But, if it will help ease your mind. I don't really know. I have never really had someone by my side like this before. I had companions, but as you know, it's not like they remember me now. [ but, he seems to speak of it as if he were speaking of facts, removed from himself. more of a habit than an act of defiance, or dismissal. which likely shows on his countenance, and the way his brows furrow slightly in focus. ]
Even talking like this... you might be the first. [ at least in this context. even if they may have often discussed what they might do when the outer gods were defeated, it's distinctly different. ] You once mentioned traveling... Should we?