It wore thin, after a time, the walls between ourselves and those that clamored beside us. So long of hearing their voices it is no wonder that it was difficult to discern my own. Had it been but a few, I believe I would have been able to hold fast to the rest of me, but with so many? The outcome was certain from the start. But my ability to last as long as I did is not so strange, when one considers who I am. Who I have always been.
[The intensity some had teased him for. That eagerness and sincerity in everything he did. The way he loved so thoroughly and deeply that he never knew what to do with himself, turbulent oceans beneath a placid surface. It had saved him, in the end.
His fingers press gently into Hythlodaeus's arm, a comfort for the both of them.]
Some part of me is glad that I may share in the experience with another. That we may draw strength and support from that which we both understand - though in the same breath I wish you be free of it.
[Never would he wish for his own comfort at the detriment to another. If he could take the memories and pain from his friend and suffer alone, he would do it in an instant. Better that he can't.
His free hand slides across the table towards Emet-Selch in a familiar motion, leaving it there. He sees you, Hades. He refuses to let you suffer in silence.]
But we remain. Our experiences have changed us, yes, but I believe that down to your core you remain yourself. Think back to the man you were when you stumbled upon me at the Capital, daydreaming about the events of Pandaemonium. The man you were whilst you adventured in Elpis. Would you, now, make any choices different to those he would have made?
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[The intensity some had teased him for. That eagerness and sincerity in everything he did. The way he loved so thoroughly and deeply that he never knew what to do with himself, turbulent oceans beneath a placid surface. It had saved him, in the end.
His fingers press gently into Hythlodaeus's arm, a comfort for the both of them.]
Some part of me is glad that I may share in the experience with another. That we may draw strength and support from that which we both understand - though in the same breath I wish you be free of it.
[Never would he wish for his own comfort at the detriment to another. If he could take the memories and pain from his friend and suffer alone, he would do it in an instant. Better that he can't.
His free hand slides across the table towards Emet-Selch in a familiar motion, leaving it there. He sees you, Hades. He refuses to let you suffer in silence.]
But we remain. Our experiences have changed us, yes, but I believe that down to your core you remain yourself. Think back to the man you were when you stumbled upon me at the Capital, daydreaming about the events of Pandaemonium. The man you were whilst you adventured in Elpis. Would you, now, make any choices different to those he would have made?