A little more than a year, likely, if you take into account all the worlds we’ve traipsed across. A mere drop in the bucket in the grand scheme of things.
[To a man who was once immortal, that should be a flash in the pan. A flicker in his long and arduous existence, having no bearing and leaving no marks across either heart nor mind. The reality, as he knows it now, is that he cannot imagine a more poignant and welcome part of his life, not since thousands of years ago before he was burdened by his own willingness to aid his people.
What does that say about how things are now? How much has changed?
For a moment, it seems like Ardyn will say nothing more. Until he speaks up, something a little steadier in his tone.]
Do you recall when I first arrived in this world? How I thought that it would be a kind favor, indeed, if you had merely ended my life and granted me the freedom I had once vied for?
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[To a man who was once immortal, that should be a flash in the pan. A flicker in his long and arduous existence, having no bearing and leaving no marks across either heart nor mind. The reality, as he knows it now, is that he cannot imagine a more poignant and welcome part of his life, not since thousands of years ago before he was burdened by his own willingness to aid his people.
What does that say about how things are now? How much has changed?
For a moment, it seems like Ardyn will say nothing more. Until he speaks up, something a little steadier in his tone.]
Do you recall when I first arrived in this world? How I thought that it would be a kind favor, indeed, if you had merely ended my life and granted me the freedom I had once vied for?