[Noctis offers up a weak smile in Ardyn's direction.]
I don't have years and years to reflect on it, either.
[He's twenty, and immature, and after ten years in a Crystal he'll still be twenty and immature, body be damned. The space within the Crystal was timeless, he hadn't felt the progress of it at all in whatever time he'd been there. When he comes out of it, he won't have weeks, months, or years to reconsider his feelings on his enemy. He'll be lucky if he has days before he marches into Insomnia to kill and be killed.
How long does it take, to decide your hatred has shifted to anger and understanding? If even Ardyn doesn't know, he doubts he'll figure out the answer.]
It's... okay. [It's not. But it could be worse.] It would be shitty of me to expect you to know for sure, when you're not him. Still... thanks for trying.
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I don't have years and years to reflect on it, either.
[He's twenty, and immature, and after ten years in a Crystal he'll still be twenty and immature, body be damned. The space within the Crystal was timeless, he hadn't felt the progress of it at all in whatever time he'd been there. When he comes out of it, he won't have weeks, months, or years to reconsider his feelings on his enemy. He'll be lucky if he has days before he marches into Insomnia to kill and be killed.
How long does it take, to decide your hatred has shifted to anger and understanding? If even Ardyn doesn't know, he doubts he'll figure out the answer.]
It's... okay. [It's not. But it could be worse.] It would be shitty of me to expect you to know for sure, when you're not him. Still... thanks for trying.