He repeats it flatly. It's a good idea on her part, admittedly. There is no way to truly lie with it. He can even help her manifest it if she's serious about showing him her memories.
Does he want to know? That is the question here. Everything that she has said has been a lot to take in already. His mind is whirling. It's all he can do to focus on some singular points of her story and digest them. Fandaniel: the agent of the star's destruction from the very beginning. Hythlodaeus: reunited with him in the aetherial sea. Venat... Venat knowing this entire time and sharing nothing of it with anyone. She let their people die.
He feels another surge of anger towards her - towards Hydaelyn - and takes a deep breath to calm himself, closing his eyes.
"What difference would it make?" he mutters. "If the root cause lies in the past, with Fandaniel, as you claim, then nothing I have done for this star matters. Its destruction was assured long ago and we were only prolonging its death. There...is...no...point."
He doesn't want to believe her. It's easier to think that she's lying to him, that he still has some agency in how events play out. But say he manages to change the future to one he desires - according to her, the star will remain in peril from Fandaniel's creation. They will be trapped, forever fearing that which lies without.
If instead he chooses to let his future play out as-is then it means giving up on his long-held duty. He can't do that. He can't fail his people.
He stands abruptly. "I'm going to step outside," he says stiffly, not really looking at her. "Is there anything else I should know?"
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He repeats it flatly. It's a good idea on her part, admittedly. There is no way to truly lie with it. He can even help her manifest it if she's serious about showing him her memories.
Does he want to know? That is the question here. Everything that she has said has been a lot to take in already. His mind is whirling. It's all he can do to focus on some singular points of her story and digest them. Fandaniel: the agent of the star's destruction from the very beginning. Hythlodaeus: reunited with him in the aetherial sea. Venat... Venat knowing this entire time and sharing nothing of it with anyone. She let their people die.
He feels another surge of anger towards her - towards Hydaelyn - and takes a deep breath to calm himself, closing his eyes.
"What difference would it make?" he mutters. "If the root cause lies in the past, with Fandaniel, as you claim, then nothing I have done for this star matters. Its destruction was assured long ago and we were only prolonging its death. There...is...no...point."
He doesn't want to believe her. It's easier to think that she's lying to him, that he still has some agency in how events play out. But say he manages to change the future to one he desires - according to her, the star will remain in peril from Fandaniel's creation. They will be trapped, forever fearing that which lies without.
If instead he chooses to let his future play out as-is then it means giving up on his long-held duty. He can't do that. He can't fail his people.
He stands abruptly. "I'm going to step outside," he says stiffly, not really looking at her. "Is there anything else I should know?"