[That is what it sounds like... yet something about the way she describes it feels off to him. Most of those who return to the star where he is from do so because they feel they have fulfilled their life's work. The journey is one many even look forward to. Even socially isolated as he is, that fact has not escaped him.
Yet... Ange does not seem at all joyful. Erichthonios' brows draw close in worry. He does not understand. The closest comparison he can draw is that of Hesperos, who took his own life to evade capture and questioning over his transformation into a hemitheos.
...But even that held a twisted sense of fulfillment for the man.
CW: Cultural depictions of suicide. Spoilers for Pandaemonium Asphodelos in FFXIV.
[That is what it sounds like... yet something about the way she describes it feels off to him. Most of those who return to the star where he is from do so because they feel they have fulfilled their life's work. The journey is one many even look forward to. Even socially isolated as he is, that fact has not escaped him.
Yet... Ange does not seem at all joyful. Erichthonios' brows draw close in worry. He does not understand. The closest comparison he can draw is that of Hesperos, who took his own life to evade capture and questioning over his transformation into a hemitheos.
...But even that held a twisted sense of fulfillment for the man.
Ange... almost seems uncaring for her life.]