[Why? Why was everyone showing him sympathy? First Lunafreya and then...then Noctis, of all people, had looked right at him with those damned blue eyes that matched Izunia's and-]
['This time, you can rest in peace.']
[Even hatred was starting to fail Ardyn now. The blazing, burning rage of two thousand years had begun to fade like the last embers of a wildfire in a forest burned black, leaving behind...leaving whatever this was. Whatever was half-formed from spite and the desperate desire to just let it end. Whether that was more Ardyn Izunia or Ardyn Lucis Caelum...he didn't know. He didn't know who he was or how to just kill whatever was still human within himself.]
[Ardyn froze at the sudden contact, but didn't argue or push Church off like his ordinary kneejerk reaction probably would have been. He was just...much too tired to even bother with the argument that would result.]
...you're making a mistake.
['When the prophecy is fulfilled, all in thrall to darkness shall know peace.']
[Yet the Chosen King had surely ascended, and here he remained in his own personal hell as something neither Starscourge nor human.]
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['This time, you can rest in peace.']
[Even hatred was starting to fail Ardyn now. The blazing, burning rage of two thousand years had begun to fade like the last embers of a wildfire in a forest burned black, leaving behind...leaving whatever this was. Whatever was half-formed from spite and the desperate desire to just let it end. Whether that was more Ardyn Izunia or Ardyn Lucis Caelum...he didn't know. He didn't know who he was or how to just kill whatever was still human within himself.]
[Ardyn froze at the sudden contact, but didn't argue or push Church off like his ordinary kneejerk reaction probably would have been. He was just...much too tired to even bother with the argument that would result.]
...you're making a mistake.
['When the prophecy is fulfilled, all in thrall to darkness shall know peace.']
[Yet the Chosen King had surely ascended, and here he remained in his own personal hell as something neither Starscourge nor human.]