[Yuan arches his eyebrows for no-one's benefit but his own, apparently.]
We helped create this system, Kratos and I.
[With Mithos, true: but they could have stopped him, at the beginning. They did not begin to try until it was so wound up that it could not be fixed without so much more.]
In many ways, your situation is our fault. That which is done can't be erased; but for the sake of those who still live, it may be... mitigated.
[The word is insufficient. And Yuan has much more on his hands than Kratos does. ... He isn't going to speak of that.]
And when I last spoke to Kratos, he intimated that he saw enough of himself in you that you might still be looking for a place to die. Is he right?
[Yuan wonders if he even knows how to gentle himself, any more. But there is no incoming lightning, not immediately.]
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[Yuan arches his eyebrows for no-one's benefit but his own, apparently.]
We helped create this system, Kratos and I.
[With Mithos, true: but they could have stopped him, at the beginning. They did not begin to try until it was so wound up that it could not be fixed without so much more.]
In many ways, your situation is our fault. That which is done can't be erased; but for the sake of those who still live, it may be... mitigated.
[The word is insufficient. And Yuan has much more on his hands than Kratos does. ... He isn't going to speak of that.]
And when I last spoke to Kratos, he intimated that he saw enough of himself in you that you might still be looking for a place to die. Is he right?
[Yuan wonders if he even knows how to gentle himself, any more. But there is no incoming lightning, not immediately.]