It doesn't occur to you that Monsun might be beyond the Storyteller’s influence? It's a possible escape route. You don't understand the way such a mind works. If I didn't have someone to look after I might have tested it myself.
[He's not saying he understands Ardyn, he certainly doesn't, but there’s something to be said about men who don't entirely mean it when they chase power.
-- I didn't understand what being king meant to you.
-- What's that?
-- An end to fighting.
Laurent responds to that highly incriminating pause with a light huff, something like the beginnings of laughter. ]
Is that what you are to each other? People- 'friends'?
[‘Friend’? What a sweet sounding word. Ignis calling Laurent a friend had not stopped him from moving islands to be with his other friends, had not enticed him to the temple once in January to check on- surely he had at least one ‘friend’ there. Muffet. Tataru, maybe, or if nothing else all the children sheltering there. You will have a friend across the border, Damen had said. They were not friends. To use such a platitude to describe what they had is frankly an insult to Damen's goodness.
Perhaps that's what these two are. In the absence of anything else they could use, saying they’re friends.]
I suppose it's something you need to tell yourself, not me. How’s the food situation? I expect a warning if you can no longer feed Damianos or myself.
cw: suicidal ideation
[He's not saying he understands Ardyn, he certainly doesn't, but there’s something to be said about men who don't entirely mean it when they chase power.
-- I didn't understand what being king meant to you.
-- What's that?
-- An end to fighting.
Laurent responds to that highly incriminating pause with a light huff, something like the beginnings of laughter. ]
Is that what you are to each other? People- 'friends'?
[‘Friend’? What a sweet sounding word. Ignis calling Laurent a friend had not stopped him from moving islands to be with his other friends, had not enticed him to the temple once in January to check on- surely he had at least one ‘friend’ there. Muffet. Tataru, maybe, or if nothing else all the children sheltering there. You will have a friend across the border, Damen had said. They were not friends. To use such a platitude to describe what they had is frankly an insult to Damen's goodness.
Perhaps that's what these two are. In the absence of anything else they could use, saying they’re friends.]
I suppose it's something you need to tell yourself, not me. How’s the food situation? I expect a warning if you can no longer feed Damianos or myself.