[ Hythlodaeus gives a soft sigh at that and shifts on her bed, stretching his arms out behind him as he tips his head back to stare up at the ceiling. ]
Emet-Selch has always been... particular. And particularly stubborn. I doubt that, after an eon of dedicating himself to one purpose, one outcome, he would have been easy to reason with. To sway. I do not know what events might have haunted his path to lead him to the destination you found him in, but... [ Emet-Selch's angry denial resounded in his ears but underneath it, he could still hear the heartbreak in it. The fear. Protest it as Emet-Selch might, Hythlodaeus suspected they both could be pushed to great and terrible acts, with such unrelenting motivations. Couldn't they all? ]
Whatever the outcome of your visit here... I only hope it worthwhile. Helpful. Perhaps then, somehow, it will make all that was sacrificed... worth it. Mean something more.
[She shifts her own position slightly, turning so that she's sitting beside him as he stretches out, hooking one foot beneath herself. Of course, she agrees with him— after millennia of being dedicated to his purpose as he had been, it was impossible to imagine that things could have ended differently. She still wishes that circumstances had allowed for it, but the fact that they simply could not made it all the more heartbreaking.]
That's my hope, as well.
[Her voice is soft, her expression becoming somber.]
He wanted me to remember you— all of you, and what once was. I don't want that legacy to be lost.
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Emet-Selch has always been... particular. And particularly stubborn. I doubt that, after an eon of dedicating himself to one purpose, one outcome, he would have been easy to reason with. To sway. I do not know what events might have haunted his path to lead him to the destination you found him in, but... [ Emet-Selch's angry denial resounded in his ears but underneath it, he could still hear the heartbreak in it. The fear. Protest it as Emet-Selch might, Hythlodaeus suspected they both could be pushed to great and terrible acts, with such unrelenting motivations. Couldn't they all? ]
Whatever the outcome of your visit here... I only hope it worthwhile. Helpful. Perhaps then, somehow, it will make all that was sacrificed... worth it. Mean something more.
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That's my hope, as well.
[Her voice is soft, her expression becoming somber.]
He wanted me to remember you— all of you, and what once was. I don't want that legacy to be lost.