He is smaller than she no doubt remembers him being, it's true. A side effect of having to take mortal vessels - and of the nature of the inhabitants of the shards, in the wake of the Sundering. Not that he couldn't claim his full height. Stand tall as a very literal giant among men. But it benefits his various schemes far better to be taken as little more than simply another mortal. Another person, in whom one might take counsel.
(And if said counsel should, from time to time, lead to ruin, it has always been his intent for it to do so. The seeds of chaos do rather need a helping hand now and again.)
"Close enough, perhaps."
Not the peace she might have been trying to find - the same peace that he can't deny having occasionally longed for himself - but peace nonetheless. A quietness, free from the screaming of a world being all but torn into pieces and her people along with it.
"Here more so than most places."
There is, after all, not even the faint murmurings of the lifestream, here among the stars. (As for the comment about them being dead, he chooses not to address it, for the time being. Though not all of them perished in the Sundering that is likely to be a conversation best had when she's a little more awake.)
"But you must be tired. Rest awhile; I shall remain here till you wake again."
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Date: 2020-12-06 06:30 am (UTC)(And if said counsel should, from time to time, lead to ruin, it has always been his intent for it to do so. The seeds of chaos do rather need a helping hand now and again.)
"Close enough, perhaps."
Not the peace she might have been trying to find - the same peace that he can't deny having occasionally longed for himself - but peace nonetheless. A quietness, free from the screaming of a world being all but torn into pieces and her people along with it.
"Here more so than most places."
There is, after all, not even the faint murmurings of the lifestream, here among the stars. (As for the comment about them being dead, he chooses not to address it, for the time being. Though not all of them perished in the Sundering that is likely to be a conversation best had when she's a little more awake.)
"But you must be tired. Rest awhile; I shall remain here till you wake again."