I can only promise to try. That's why I need someone else to remember this as well. Two thousand years is a long time, you know--some things may just get a little lost along the way.
[Ardyn laughed--no longer hollow and distant, there was something genuinely positive about it amidst a heavy exhaustion.]
[This wouldn't last. And even if it could...it shouldn't. What Ardyn had been carrying--and he knew its name no matter what lie he'd told to Church--was his own. It was better that way, and at that moment he knew that with perfect clarity if he was able to take it back, he would have done so right that instant.]
[That was what he was meant for, after all.]
...I want to say 'I'm not going anywhere', but I have no ability to promise that right now. But I can tell you I've no intent to die before we all get out of this. Whoever I might be by then, I plan to leave here when the rest of us do.
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[Ardyn laughed--no longer hollow and distant, there was something genuinely positive about it amidst a heavy exhaustion.]
[This wouldn't last. And even if it could...it shouldn't. What Ardyn had been carrying--and he knew its name no matter what lie he'd told to Church--was his own. It was better that way, and at that moment he knew that with perfect clarity if he was able to take it back, he would have done so right that instant.]
[That was what he was meant for, after all.]
...I want to say 'I'm not going anywhere', but I have no ability to promise that right now. But I can tell you I've no intent to die before we all get out of this. Whoever I might be by then, I plan to leave here when the rest of us do.