[ In contrast to Silco, Bondrewd speaks of his near-pariah status without any ego at all. He understands why the world beyond the Abyss had disavowed him, sent bounty hunters and spies and kept their record of his crimes and sins. One day, the Abyss's secrets would be laid bare before the eyes of humanity, and he would no longer be their necessary evil - on that day, the world itself would go to every length and all pains to wipe the stain that was the Sovereign of Dawn from the annals of history.

A required evil, and their proverbial scapegoat. ] Should she prove to be, I believe the two of us will have much to speak about. I have known many who accept the difficulties of progress as fact, and embrace - rather than resist - my methodology. Does Meridian not embrace such values, then? I had considered what they offered, after their informational.

[ While his choice is all but made, the result of his own earlier investigations of both sides and their long, storied histories, the fact that he was the lightbringer to the Abyss meant that some part of him sung in the presence of the Meridian's light. To challenge the end of the world itself would be as novel as exploring the one he was in, as entering a new world - unknown and unsullied.

Although... ] Oh. [ Oya. ] Such a serendipitous meeting, Mister Silco. I believe we may have more in common than not.

[ Drugs. Illicit materials. Experimentation. Bad men, doing bad things. ]