[ His expression falls as he nods in instant understanding. He can understand losing all hope and connection to one's own life and world after losing someone dear. ]
I am sorry you lost them, but having loved once and loved so strongly, you must understand the wish of those with loved ones had been alive –may yet be alive in their worlds– to be reunited.
[ He would rather exhaust all his options first before accepting that all is lost, but maybe he's simply delaying the inevitable. ]
Those bonds may be few, but they are no less important to me. However, it is possible that I would feel differently if I had some greater proof they had perished besides a single, errant dream. I would also wonder why I was chosen to survive above everyone else.
[ He'd been 'chosen' once before and had always felt it was undeserved. Someone like him, who had been at death's door since he'd been born, this world must be possessed of crueler gods than their own to think he could carry the weight of his dead world on his shoulders. ]
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I am sorry you lost them, but having loved once and loved so strongly, you must understand the wish of those with loved ones had been alive –may yet be alive in their worlds– to be reunited.
[ He would rather exhaust all his options first before accepting that all is lost, but maybe he's simply delaying the inevitable. ]
Those bonds may be few, but they are no less important to me. However, it is possible that I would feel differently if I had some greater proof they had perished besides a single, errant dream. I would also wonder why I was chosen to survive above everyone else.
[ He'd been 'chosen' once before and had always felt it was undeserved. Someone like him, who had been at death's door since he'd been born, this world must be possessed of crueler gods than their own to think he could carry the weight of his dead world on his shoulders. ]